Healthy troops complete their missions, and vaccines will keep you and your team healthy.
Vaccines:
- Shield you from dangerous germs that can kill you or cause lasting harm.
- Prevent infections, such as tetanus, typhoid fever, measles, yellow fever, smallpox and anthrax, to name just a few.
- Keep units fit to fight. We fight as a team. All team members must be healthy.
- Keep people healthy so they can live better lives and do their mission.
- Help you return home healthy and help your family stay that way.
Vaccines have kept troops healthy since the days of George Washington. George Washington protected his troops from smallpox in 1777 using a forerunner of vaccination called "variolation." We lost the Battle of Quebec in 1776 because our troops were susceptible to smallpox and suffered 5,500 smallpox casualties among the 10,000 colonial troops. The task force commander, Major General John Thomas, died of smallpox. From 1777 to today, vaccines have prevented American troops from dangerous infections. Typhoid vaccination reduced typhoid casualties from 20,000 in the Spanish-American War of 1898 to just 1,500 in World War I. During all of World War II, only 12 cases of tetanus occurred among vaccinated U.S. troops, but numerous tetanus deaths occurred among the unvaccinated Germany Army.
Vaccines are among the most important accomplishments in medicine. Vaccines have saved more lives throughout the world than any other medical invention, including antibiotics or surgery, only clean water has saved more lives than vaccines.
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Policy
This instruction:
a. Reissues DoD Instruction (DoDI) 6025.19 (Reference (a)) to update the responsibilities, procedures, and key element standards for IMR in accordance with the authority in DoD Directive (DoDD) 5124.02 (Reference (b)).
b. Implements policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures to improve IMR in accordance with the authority in Reference (b). This implementation is in accordance with sections 1074a, 10149, and 10206 of Title 10, United States Code and DoDD 6200.04 (References (c) and (d), respectively)
Policy
This regulation for immunization and chemoprophylaxis updates quality standard for immunization delivery; establishes electronic immunization tracking systems as the preferred immunization record; provides guidance for lost immunization records; immunization credit for pre-exisiting immunity, and complying with regulations for vaccines and other products administered in investigational, new drug status or in accordance with emergency use authorization; describes dividing initial entry immunization into two clusters and describes the role of the Military Vaccine Office.
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in Military Service Members
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Application of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Rules to Department of Defense Force Health Protection Programs
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Policy and Program for Immunizations to Protect the Health of Service Members and Military Beneficiaries
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