making lower respiratory infections more severe, with high hospitalization, mechanical ventilation, and mortality rates. "We believe that transplant patients really suffer from a lack of good protection from the lower standard dose [influenza] vaccine," commented ACIP member Camille Kotton, MD, of Mas...
averaging 16 times higher than the annual rate for influenza.3,4Approximately 75% of infants hospitalized for RSV are born healthy and at term with no underlying conditions.5Each year in the U.S., an estimated 590,000 RSV disease cases in infants under one require medical care, including ph...
The article focuses on the updated recommendations for influenza control for the 2008-2009 season released by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Primary updates include the annual vaccination of children five to 18 years ...
Experts worried that child immunization rates would go down, but research published last year showed theyremained unchangedbetween the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 influenza seasons. Still,William Schaffner, MD,Infectious Disease NewsEditorial Board member a...
is due to influenza A(H3N2), but theH1N1subtype is also contributing to higher hospitalization rates among 50- to 64-year-olds, said Dan Jernigan, MD, MPH, director of the Influenza Division in the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, in a briefing with reporters...
The age group also tends to have the lowest vaccination rates, Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters during a press conference. "Flu hospitalizations and deaths in people -- younger and middle-aged adults -- is a...
Although flu is scattered throughout the United States, the hardest hit places so far are New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, the Southeast and the Northwest, Brammer said. Most of the virus out there is influenza H3N2, she added. That strain is part of this year’s flu vaccine, accordin...
The addition of the COVID jabs to the list, as well as updated guidance on influenza and pneumococcal vaccines; and new vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and for hepatitis B, were published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Thursday, according to CNN. ...
The article focuses on the recommendations to reverse historically poor flu immunization rates among caregivers by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to ACIP, health care facilities should offer influenza vaccinations...
S0681Influenza, PCV13, and PPSV23 Vaccination Rates Among Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Based on CDC Recommendations at a Large Safety Net Hospital 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 15 作者:A Jordan,A Kelly,K Mills,T Sobukonla,M Flood ...