Manalich told reporters on Sunday the miners were sent vaccines to protect against diseases like diphtheria and tetanus.
Over the past seven years the price for the standard five-germ inoculation (including diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough) has dropped 40%.
Under fee-for-service in America, only about three-quarters of children under two are inoculated against diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella and polio.
The pertussis vaccine, called DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis) has been responsible for a dramatic drop in whooping cough in recent decades.
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There is no single vaccine against whooping cough, so the jab being offered to pregnant women will also protect against diphtheria, tetanus and polio.
Encouraged, they introduced the DTP vaccine, which protects children from diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (still a top seller), followed by an anti-snake-venom serum for snakebites.
Babies and children are vaccinated against pertussis, diphtheria and tetanus through a similar vaccine that's referred to as Dtap in a five-dose series during infancy and up to age 6.
These are HPV to S2 girls, diphtheria, tetanus and polio boosters to S3 girls and boys and also measles, mumps and rubella to S3 pupils who have not had it previously.
Ms Jarvis also claimed she could protect patients against other diseases, like polio, tetanus and diphtheria.
In 2005, a booster shot called Tdap was introduced for adolescents and adults that inoculates against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis.
Still, eight of 10 had the Tdap vaccine for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, while 63 percent had the MCV4 meningococcal vaccine.
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The US has been offering a combined whooping cough, tetanus and diphtheria vaccine to pregnant women for the past 18 months.
It says women should receive a vaccine for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, together known as Tdap, toward the end of pregnancy, or between 27 and 36 weeks' gestation.
Fincher said her son's own physician told her the risks of combining the new H1N1 vaccine with his other scheduled vaccines -- for example, tetanus and diphtheria -- are not yet known.
Adults can replace a dose of their regular tetanus-and-diphtheria shot, given every 10 years, with Tdap, but don't have to wait out the 10 years, according to the CDC.
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