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PERSONS SUBJECT TO ROUTINE IMMUNIZATIONS
a. Military Personnel.
(1) Active duty. All personnel entering on active duty for periods in excess
of 30 days will receive the routine immunizations listed in Table 2-1.
Immunization
Basic
Contra
Adverse
Boosters
Method
Routine
Series
indications
Reactions
encephalitis
eczema
Multiple
eczema vacci-
pregnancy
Smallpox
5 years
natum
pressure
immunosup
gen. vaccinia
intradermal
pression
auto-inoculation
3 injections
0.1 ml 10
1. 0.5 ml
years 0.5 ml
Tetanus
2. 0.5 ml 1-
after wound
local induration
SC/IM
hypersensitivity
Diphtheria
2 mos. later
or burn if no
urticaria
3. 0.1 ml 12
Toxoid
booster
mons after
within 5
2nd dose
years
3 doses
(trivalent)
leukemia
questionable
#2. 6-8
none
oral
Poliomyelitis
lymphoma
paralytic disease
weeks later
steroid therapy
<1/3,000,000
#3. 12 mos
after #2
egg
local/systemic
Influenza
0.5 ml
annual
SC/IM
hypersensitivity
toxic
Yellow Fever
febrile reaction
egg
Alert Forces
0.5 ml
10 years
SC/IM
rare
hypersensitivity
certain travel
encephalopathy
6 months
Cholera
only on
local/systemic
Only for entry
0.5 ml
SC/IM
advice of
to certain
toxic
command
countries
surgeon
Table 2-1. Schedule of immunizations, adult (cont'd).
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