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------ Walk in "BACK TO SCHOOL" Shot Clinic ----- August, 26th, 2009: 3:00pm - 7:00pm Deschutes County Health Services - Bend Clinic 2577 NE Courtney Dr., Bend, 97701
- Please bring your child's immunization record and insurance information. For those children without insurance, the cost is just $15.19 per shot. No one will be denied services for inability to pay -
Immunization Requirements 2009-10 School Year
In addition to the above vaccines, incoming 7th and 8th graders will also need:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Immunizations are an excellent way to protect against many serious diseases. The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family Physicians and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend a series of immunizations to protect your children against 12 different diseases.
Immunization appointments are available in Bend, Redmond, and La Pine.
When visiting the Health Department for immunizations, please bring a current shot record on each child and health insurance information (if applicable). We will not deny service for inability to pay.
For questions and/or to schedule an immunization appointment at one of our clinics please click here: Clinic Information
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Shots for Tots
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Immunizations Save Young Lives Measles is the number one vaccine-preventable disease that kills infants worldwide. Failure to immunize can lead to new outbreaks of this disease. Between 1989 and 1991, a United States measles epidemic resulted in more than 55,000 reported cases, 11,000 hospitalizations and approximately 103 deaths. More than half of those deaths were infants.
Pertussis remains as the only vaccine-preventable disease that has increased in incidence in the United States in the last 20 years. Oregon's incidence has remained similar to that for the United States over the last few years until 2002 when it increased to 5.51/100,000 population, twice that of the United States at 2.72/100,000. www.pertussis.com/pointers.html
In the era before vaccines, millions of American children died from childhood diseases. Today children who are not immunized or up-to-date on their shots are still at risk of serious illness, particularly infants. Infants are more likely to suffer more complications - even death - if they contract a vaccine-preventable disease. Age-appropriate immunizations start at birth and continue through adulthood, with special emphasis through age two.
For more information on immunizations, including vaccine safety, please visit the following websites:
National Network for Immunization Information CDC National Immunization Program Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Vaccine Education Center
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Adult Immunization: Who Needs It and Why Immunize?
The widespread implementation of childhood vaccination programs has substantially reduced the occurrence of many vaccine-preventable diseases. However, adults may be at risk of these diseases and their complications, if they escaped natural infection or have not been vaccinated with toxoids or vaccines against diphtheria, measles, tetanus, pertussis, mumps, rubella, varicella (chicken pox) and poliomyelitis. In addition, other vaccine-preventable diseases (hepatitis B, hepatitis A, influenza, and pneumococcal disease) may pose a risk to persons in certain age, occupational, environmental, and life-style groups and those with special health problems. Women of childbearing age should be fully immunized to protect themselves and, in the case of pregnancy, their unborn child. Travelers to some countries may also be at increased risk of exposure to vaccine-preventable illnesses. Foreign students, immigrants, and refugees may be susceptible to these diseases.
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