The Hep B vaccine, the first of many such vaccines that are routinely administered to US children, is injected into the newborn shortly after birth. It is given over three doses: the minimum recommended dosing intervals are 4 weeks between the 1st and 2nd and 8 weeks between the 2nd and...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting held in Atlanta, Georgia on October 25-26, 2011 is presented. Topics include hepa...
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On June 26, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)updated its recommendation for the use of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccines in people ages 60 and older. For this upcoming respiratory virus season, CDC recommends: Everyone ages 75 and older receive the RSV vaccine. Peopl...
However, the CDC recommends the HAV vaccine for the following groups: All children older than 1 year are recommended to get the vaccine, especially children who live in communities where the number of HAV infections is unusually high or where there are periodic outbreaks of hepatitis A. The ...
them up on their vaccination at a time when we know that they are more likely to seek medical care with the expectation that the vaccine will last long enough that when they get to their risk period that they will then be protected," said Nancy Messonnier, MD, of the CDC in Atlanta....
There is no cure for hepatitis B. But a vaccine now exists and antiviral treatments have improved to the point that the virus can be kept in check, said Dr. Roger Chou, an assistant professor at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland and director of the Pacific Northwest Evidence-ba...
On June 27, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), unanimously agreed that children and teenagers ages 2 to 18 years should be vaccinated against hepatitis A virus (HAV) if they did not receive the vaccine as inf...
On June 27, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), unanimously agreed that children and teenagers ages 2 to 18 years should be vaccinated against hepatitis A virus (HAV) if they did not receive the vaccine as inf...
Pharmaceutical companies cannot guarantee that the vaccine will not give a person Hepatitis C. I got the flu 3 from the flu shot; my brother in law did so also; and others have gotten the flu from the flu shot. Nevertheless, medicine asserts that is impossible. The AMA, CDC, and...