(CNN) While much of the world’s attention has been focused on the Wuhan coronavirus, there’s another virus that has been keeping doctors offices around the country incredibly busy this time of year. Flu activity continued to increase and remained high in the United States in the week ending February 1, according to new data from […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Up to 45 million children in seven developing countries will be immunized against measles in a series of major vaccination campaigns to try to halt a global surge in the viral disease, the GAVI vaccine alliance said on Wednesday. Measles cases have risen dramatically in all parts of the world in recent […]
Sean T. O’Leary, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP February 04, 2020 The 2020 child and adolescent immunization schedule released today includes changes to recommendations for hepatitis A and tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccines. In addition, the terms “individual clinical decision-making” and “clinical discretion” have been replaced with “shared clinical decision-making.” The schedule for the use of […]
By Carolyn Y. Johnson Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:06 a.m. EST In a suburb south of Boston, robots have already started manufacturing a potential vaccine against the fast-spreading coronavirus. Another candidate vaccine — developed when a similar virus terrified the world — sits in deep freeze in a repository in Houston, ready to be thawed and […]
FDA Approves Novel Pandemic Influenza Vaccine – Medscape – Feb 03, 2020. Megan Brooks The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first and only adjuvanted, cell-based pandemic vaccine to provide active immunization against the influenza A virus H5N1 strain. Influenza A (H5N1) monovalent vaccine, adjuvanted (Audenz, Seqirus) is for use in individuals aged 6 months and older. It’s designed […]
The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices issued updated vaccine guidelines in the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report recommending the use of either tetanus and diphtheria vaccine or tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis, or Tdap, vaccine for Td booster shots every 10 years and tetanus prophylaxis for wounds in people with prior Tdap vaccinations. […]
Youths who received complete flu vaccinations had a 54% lower likelihood of flu-related hospitalizations, researchers reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases. The findings, based on 2015 to 2018 data involving 3,746 hospitalizations among Israeli children ages 6 months to 8 years, also showed the vaccine’s efficacy against varying circulating viruses across three different flu seasons. Read […]
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among findings in pregnant women hospitalized for influenza in high-income countries is a substantially higher prevalence of preterm deliveries, according to an international group of researchers. Writing in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Fatimah Dawood of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and colleagues note that […]
Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates among young adults in the United States continue to trend upward, nearly doubling, according new data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The percentage of adults aged 18 to 26 years who reported ever having received one or more doses […]
Seattle Public Schools told parents that students who are not properly vaccinated will not be allowed back to school on Jan. 8 following Christmas break if they are not in compliance with Washington state’s vaccination laws. “Student records must reflect updated immunization status by January 8, 2020, or students cannot attend school until the required […]