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Rural Colorado shows how vaccination messaging is a science in itself

from Wyoming Public Media

Rural Colorado shows how vaccination messaging is a science in itself Wyoming Public Media Nationally, only about half of adolescents are fully vaccinated against HPV, and according to 2018 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention there’s a big gap between rural and urban teens when it comes to vaccines, including the one that protects against HPV and the one that protects against four types of meningitis. In La Plata and Archuleta counties, for example, state data shows that only 40% and 27% of teens are up to date on HPV vaccines. And doctors and researchers are somewhat stumped about how to increase those percentages. There have been plenty of studies about how to communicate with parents, but they haven’t provided the straightforward answers public health might have hoped for. READ MORE

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