ABC News (March 6th, 2022) – When a measles outbreak struck Columbus, Ohio, late last year, public health officials learned the overwhelming majority of cases — 80 of 85 — were among unvaccinated children. Investigators from Columbus Public Health went to speak to parents to ask them why they hadn’t vaccinated their children with the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) […]
PUURS, Belgium March 9 (Reuters) – U.S. drugmaker Pfizer (PFE.N) is ready to launch its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for both older adults and pregnant women in the United States and Europe later this year, executives said on Thursday. Both Pfizer and British drugmaker GSK (GSK.L) have RSV vaccines they hope to launch in the United States and […]
WGAL (March 23, 2023) – COVID-19 vaccine information for Pennsylvania. This article is regularly updated with new numbers from the Pennsylvania Department of Health. It tracks COVID-19 cases and vaccinations across the state. Scroll to the bottom for information on how to get the COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 CASES in Pennsylvania, how to get the vaccine (wgal.com)
STAT (3/23, Branswell, Subscription Publication) reports, “Data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest the pandemic effect has pretty much worn off,” and that “TB is nearly back to pre-2020 levels” in the U.S. Philip LoBue, director of the CDC’s division of tuberculosis elimination, told STAT in an interview, “We’re getting […]
ABC27 (March 26th, 2023) – The CVS MinuteClinic in York saw less COVID this week, but more cases of viral bronchitis, strep throat and a stomach bug. Pediatricians at Penn State Health are seeing a lot of colds, stomach bugs and respiratory infections. They continue to see a handful of flu cases and RSV cases. […]
LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) – Some of the world’s leading makers of flu vaccines say they could make hundreds of millions of bird flu shots for humans within months if a new strain of avian influenza ever jumps across the species divide. One current outbreak of avian flu known as H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b has killed […]
BMC (March 20th, 2023) – (Opinion) A global surplus of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines exists as a result of difficulties in aligning the demand and supply for vaccine manufacturing and delivery. World leaders have accelerated vaccine development, approval, production and distribution as a pragmatic approach to addressing the immediate public health challenges of the […]
Healio (3/7, Feller) reports, “The rate of teenagers vaccinated against HPV is improving but a significant number of parents remain hesitant about their children receiving the vaccine, a study found.” According to the findings published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, “from 2011 to 2020, the rate of female teens receiving the HPV vaccine increased […]
Healio (3/9, Burba) reports, “Vaccination against COVID-19 is strongly recommended in patients with celiac disease, who are at greater risk for hospitalization due to SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with people who do not have celiac disease, according to research” published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. According to the findings, “24% of patients were hospitalized in the […]
The New York Times (3/7, Belluck) reports a large study suggests that patients with COVID-19 “were significantly more likely to experience gastrointestinal problems a year after infection than people who were not infected.” The study “compared medical records of 154,068” patients with COVID-19 “in the Veterans Health Administration system with about 5.6 million patients of […]