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New rules when it comes to kids' shots

Updated: January 25, 2013
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CHAMPAIGN -- More changes are happening to your kids' shots schedule. The Department of Public Health and State Board of Education now require all sixth through twelfth graders to get a TDAP vaccine. 

Before it was only sixth through ninth grades. It's because of an increase in whooping cough cases. TDAP helps prevent that, tetanus and diphtheria.

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