Massachusetts Citizens for Vaccination Choice

The DTP vaccine is the vaccine that initiated the work of groups such as ours back in the 1980s, when numerous adverse reactions were first being associated with the vaccine--the pertussis portion in particular.

More recently, the Centers for Disease Control moved to recommend the DTaP, because the purified acellular version of the pertussis vaccine was associated with fewer reactions.

MCVC would always recommend, should you decide to vaccinate your child, that vaccines be administered separately when possible. Though it is becoming increasingly difficult to get traditionally ‘trivalent’--or shots with three different vaccines in them, like the DTaP--vaccines separately, you might find some assistance at the bottom of our MDs & Others page.

For more information, visit the National Vaccine Information Center’s DTP webpage.

You can also visit the Center for Disease Control’s DTP webpage.

View the vaccine package insert (Tripedia from Sanofi Pasteur).