Updates to recommendations for hepatitis A and meningococcal vaccines were approved, while recommendations for the influenza vaccine remained unchanged, after theCDC's Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP)opens in a new tab or windowmeeting in Atlanta on Thursday. Committee members also vo...
1. Hepatitis B (HepB) vaccine. (Minimum age: birth) 2. Rotavirus (RV) vaccines. (Minimum age: 6 weeks for both RV1 [Rotarix] and RV5 [RotaTeq]) Routine vaccination: At birth: ? Administer monovalent HepB vaccine to all newborns before hospital discharge. ? For infants born to ...
Topics include hepatitis B vaccination in patients with diabetes, meningococcal vaccine, and vaccine schedules for children, adolescents, and adults. Moreover, it mentions the application of Pfizer...
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices CDC Advisors Back Updated COVID, Flu Vaccines for the Fall ACIP also votes to recommend new pneumococcal vaccine for adults
A few updates were made to the seasonal influenza vaccine recommendations for the 2021-2022 influenza season, although routine annual influenza vaccination still is recommended for all persons aged 6 months and older who do not have contraindications. As in the past, no preferential recommendation is...
Universal vaccination of the new born will prevent HBV infection during early childhood and, assuming that children receive the three dosages of the vaccine, it will also prevent adolescent and adult infections. Hepatitis B vaccination is now recommended as part of a comprehensive strategy to ...
In other meeting news, the ACIP also voted unanimously to recommend that the combined diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis, inactivated poliovirus, Haemophilus influenza type b conjugate and hepatitis type B vaccine (DTaP-IPV-Hib-HepB) (Vaxelis) should be included with PRP-OMP ...