In Sweden you get your child vaccinated to protect your community, not just your child.

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24. Children had 24 doses birth-18 yrs in 80s; now same # is mandated for childcare eligibility (Offit).

ALL the links in the post above are from the CDC website, as explained, including the top despite the different URL.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/SchoolVaxView/requirements/index.html

SchoolVaxView School Vaccination Requirements and Exemptions

All 50 states and the District of Columbia require certain vaccinations for children entering schools.

State Vaccination Requirements Use this tool to learn about childcare, kindergarten, middle school, college, and university vaccination requirements for school entry. -> http://www2a.cdc.gov/nip/schoolsurv/schImmRqmt.asp

Additional information: State mandates on immunization and vaccine-preventable diseases. -> http://www.immunize.org/laws/

As noted, the "State Vaccination Requirements" was last updated in 2011 (searchable in multiple ways); the "Additional Information" is current (searchable only by vaccine)

1983: 24 doses total birth to 18 years of age of 4 vaccines (polio, DPT, MMR, tetanus)
2015: 71 doses total birth to 18 years of age of (please see chart by Ginger Taylor or read below)

http://vec.chop.edu/service/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-schedule/history-of-vaccine-schedule.html

History of Vaccine Schedule
Reviewed by: Paul A. Offit, MD
Date: April 2013

http://vec.chop.edu/service/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-schedule/history-of-vaccine-schedule.html

EXCERPT: Combination Vaccines

In the early 1950s, there were four vaccines: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and smallpox. Because three of these vaccines were combined into a single shot (DTP), children received five shots by the time they were 2 years old and not more than one shot at a single visit.

By the mid-1980s, there were seven vaccines: diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella and polio. Because six of these vaccines were combined into two shots (DTP and MMR), and one, the polio vaccine, was given by mouth, children still received five shots by the time they were 2 years old and not more than one shot at a single visit.

Since the mid-1980s, many vaccines have been added to the schedule. Now, children could receive as many as 24 shots by 2 years of age and five shots in a single visit. The result is that the vaccine schedule has become much more complicated than it once was, and children are receiving far more shots than before (see Vaccine Safety for answers to the questions, Do vaccines weaken the immune system? and Do vaccines overwhelm the immune system?). However, help is on the way. Vaccines are again in the process of being combined in the same way that the DTaP and MMR vaccines are already combined.

The following combinations of vaccines are now available:

Diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis
Diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, and inactivated polio
Diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, inactivated polio, and hepatitis B
Diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, inactivated polio, and Haemophilus influenzae type b
Measles, mumps, and rubella
Measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella
Haemophilus influenzae type b and hepatitis B
Haemophilus influenzae type b and meningococcus

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