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[edit] when

when the right time our baby should get DPaT vaccine? is that the condition of baby when get the vaccine will be a consideration?

According to the NIH, "DTaP immunization is usually a series of injections given to children at ages 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 15-18 months, and 4-6 years." Also read the "DELAY OR DO NOT GIVE" section of the link for more details on your second question. --Arcadian 05:34, 20 December 2005 (UTC).......

[edit] Diptheria

The role of the membrane and obstruction, along witht eh toxin it produces needs bringing out - I don't know it well enough at present to actually do that though. Midgley 14:06, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

The expert needed tag on DIptheria has now been removed twice with no comment on the talk page, once by an IP address not logged in and with no history of edits 71.139.72.3, once by Ombudsman, each time with a summary that is less than a complete description of the changes. If there is some reason to think that the Diptheria section is so good it doesn't need expert attention, then posting it here would be reasonable. Midgley 21:13, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Why is that section even here? We already have articles for diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and Vaccination schedule. --Arcadian 22:23, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Merging would be a good idea. On a general note (and perhaps we need a Wikipedia: page on policy about handling vaccine articles) there is a tendency to present particualr mixtures of vaccines as being something separate from the vaccines. I think it causes more confusion than it saves and we should tackle vaccines - IE disease entities - separately, or even just as a composite article on how individual vaccines work, section for each - under a general explanation how vaccines work. Alternatively, each disease might have its vaccine section, we don't have a full article for "treatment of pneumonia with antibiotics" we have one on (I suppose) Penumonia, whcih inlcudes something on treatment as a section. Midgley 12:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

For now I've just deleted the content that wasn't related to the DPT vaccine. There didn't appear to be any new information there that needed to be merged into the disease articles (but let me know if I missed something.) --Arcadian 16:15, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why a triple-vaccine?

Why is there a single vaccine for these three? Is the active agent the same for vaccinating against all of these diseases, or does it just make sense to combine them because they're all necessary vaccinations that have the same timeframes? I think the article should make this clear. ~ Booya ^Bazooka 22:46, 20 March 2008 (UTC)