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 […]
(CNN)A single dose of the human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine may be just as effective as two or three doses at preventing cancer-causing HPV infection, a new study suggests. The study, published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open on Friday, found that compared with unvaccinated women, infection with certain high-risk HPV types was significantly less […]
Author: Robert Kadlec, MD, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Published Date: 12/19/2019 7:31:00 PM Category: Medical Countermeasures; National Health Security; Public Health Preparedness; Response & Recovery; Public-private partners collaborate to prevent the spread of a global health threat Today, we achieved a historic milestone in global health security with the approval of ERVEBO®, […]
California law stopping parents from citing religious or philosophical beliefs to opt out of vaccinating their children has improved rates of shots, a study has revealed. In 2016, a ban on nonmedical exemptions from school entry requirements came into effect. To uncover what effect this had, a team of researchers examined county-level data on measles, […]
(Reuters Health) – Only a quarter of childcare centers in the United States require children in their care to get a flu shot, and even fewer require childcare workers to be vaccinated, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday. Young children are at increased risk of serious complications such as hospitalization and even death from seasonal influenza, […]