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Immunizations
The Maternal, Child and Family Health Coalition of Metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri Adolescent
Outreach Initiative has created materials for their Start With Four Campaign. The goal of this
Initiative is to increase the number of adolescents who are currently immunized following the recommended
immunization schedule; the focus is on four immunizations - Tdap, Meningitis, Flu and HPV. Please view
www.startwithfour.org for more information.
Jefferson County Health Department provides immunizations
to protect against a variety of communicable diseases. Please select
from the list
below for information on the vaccine, cost, and requirements:
- Pneumonia (Coming Soon)
- Varicella (Coming Soon)
- Hepatitis A (Coming Soon)
- Hepatitis B (Coming Soon)
- Influenza (Coming Soon)
- Tetanus/Diptheria (TD) (Coming Soon)
- Measles/Mumps/Rubella (MMR) (Coming Soon)
- Meningitis (Coming Soon)
- Tetanus/Diptheria/Pertussis (Adacel) (Coming Soon)
- Shingles (Zostavax) (Coming Soon)
- HPV (Gardasil)
Beginning Babies With Books
As an incentive to have children immunized, JCHD
offers parents age-appropriate books each time immunizations are given. The program
encourages literacy as well as parents spending time reading to their children and
operates in collaboration with the Family Literacy Council of Jefferson County.
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