By: Julie Steenhuysen
27 October 2010
(Reuters) – A panel of federal vaccine experts narrowly voted to add a booster dose of a meningitis vaccine to teens at age 16.The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 6-5 on Wednesday to add a booster dose of the vaccine at age 16 to address waning immunity among older teens against meningococcal bacteria that causes meningitis. Three members abstained.
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