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2007-08 INFLUENZA PREVENTION & CONTROL RECOMMENDATIONS
Primary Changes and Updates in the 2007 Recommendations
NOTE: The text below is taken directly from Prevention & Control of Influenza - Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). MMWR 2007 Jul 13;56(RR06):1-54. Also available as PDF (720K).
The 2007 recommendations include six principal changes or updates:
- ACIP
reemphasizes the importance of administering 2 doses of vaccine to all
children aged 6 months–8 years if they have not been vaccinated previously
at any time with either LAIV (doses separated by 6 weeks or more) or TIV (doses
separated by 4 weeks or more), on the basis of accumulating data
indicating that 2 doses are required for protection in these
children (see Vaccine Efficacy, Effectiveness, & Safety: Dosage, Administration,
& Storage).
- ACIP recommends that children aged 6 months–8 years who
received only 1 dose in their first year of vaccination receive
2 doses the following year (see Vaccine Efficacy, Effectiveness,
& Safety: Dosage, Administration,
& Storage).
- ACIP reiterates a previous recommendation that all persons,
including school-aged children, who want to reduce the risk of
becoming ill with influenza or of transmitting influenza to
others should be vaccinated (see Persons for Whom
Annual Vaccination is Recommended and Recommendations for Using TIV and LAIV During the 2007–08 Influenza
Season).
- ACIP emphasizes that immunization providers should offer
influenza vaccine and schedule immunization clinics throughout
the influenza season (see Timing of
Vaccination).
- ACIP recommends that health-care
administrators consider the level of vaccination coverage among healthcare
personnel (HCP) to be one measure of a patient safety quality program and
implement policies to encourage HCP vaccination (e.g., obtaining signed
statements from HCP who decline influenza vaccination) (see Additional
Information Regarding Vaccination of Specific Populations).
- The 2007–2008 trivalent vaccine strains are A/Solomon Islands/3/2006 (H1N1)-like (new for this season), A/Wisconsin/67/2005 (H3N2)-like, and B/Malaysia/2506/2004-like viruses. (see Recommendations for Using TIV and LAIV During the 2007–08 Influenza Season).
- Page last updated October 26, 2007
- Content Source: Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases (CCID)
- National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
