2010 Immunization News

December 2010

• December 17, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 49
  Announcement: 14th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research
  The conference brings together the diverse fields of human and veterinary vaccinology to encourage collaboration and multidisciplinary approaches among disease-specific and methodologic experts. One Health...
  
• December 10, 2010, Vol 59/No. RR11
  Prevention of Pneumococcal Disease Among Infants and Children -- Use of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine and 23-Valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine
  This report summarizes the recommendations approved by ACIP on February 24, 2010, for the prevention of pneumococcal disease among infants and children aged ≤18 years and replaces the previous ACIP recommendations for...
  
• December 3, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 47
  Seasonal Influenza and 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among
  Pregnant Women -- 10 States, 2009-10 Influenza Season
  This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which determined that vaccination coverage for pregnant women among the 10 states combined was 50.7% for seasonal influenza and 46.6% for 2009 H1N1. In addition...
  
• December 3, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 47
  Announcement: National Influenza Vaccination Week -- December 5-11, 2010
  Each year, National Influenza Vaccination Week highlights the importance of influenza vaccination and the need for persons to receive influenza vaccination during the influenza season (October-May). Influenza vaccination is...
  

November 2010

• November 19, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 45
  Announcements: Adult Vaccination Coverage Estimates Online
  Estimates of vaccination coverage for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, herpes zoster (shingles), human papillomavirus, influenza (2008-09 season), pneumococcal disease, and tetanus with and without pertussis are...
  
• November 2010 issue (Vol. 16, No. 11)
  Effect of Vaccination on Bordetella pertussis Strains, China
  In our study, most strains from China had different PFGE profiles than did those from Europe. However, many PFGE profiles detected among the strains from China fell into the same clusters as those reported in Europe...

October 2010

• October 29, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 42
  Global Routine Vaccination Coverage, 2009
  This report summarizes global routine vaccination coverage during 2000-2009 and progress toward achieving GIVS goals. Routine vaccination coverage levels indicate recent immunization program performance and population immunity...
  
• October 15, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 40
  Tetanus and Pertussis Vaccination Coverage Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years -- United States, 1999 and 2008
  This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicated that self-reported tetanus vaccination coverage (vaccination within the preceding 10 years) was 60.4% in 1999 and 61.6% in 2008. Among adults aged...
  
• October 15, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 40
  Progress Toward Control of Rubella and Prevention of Congenital Rubella Syndrome -- Worldwide, 2009
  This report summarizes reported rubella and CRS cases globally and progress toward global introduction and use of RCV. Member states submit information to WHO on the number of reported cases of rubella and CRS, and the...
  
• October 15, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 40
  Announcements: Final 2009-10 Influenza Season Vaccination Coverage Estimates
  The final national vaccination coverage estimates for the influenza A (H1N1) 2009 monovalent vaccine and the 2009-10 seasonal influenza vaccine (overall and for selected population subgroups) are available online at...
  
• October 8, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 39
  Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Children Aged 6 Months-18 Years -- Eight Immunization Information System Sentinel Sites, United States, 2009-10 Influenza Season
  The data in this report demonstrate the increase in seasonal influenza vaccination coverage among children in the eight sentinel sites during the 2009-10 influenza season. The lack of increased vaccination coverage among children...
  

September 2010

• September 17, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 36
  National, State, and Local Area Vaccination Coverage Among Children Aged 19-35 Months -- United States, 2009
  This report describes the 2009 NIS coverage estimates for children born during January 2006-July 2008 and focuses on the more recently recommended vaccines (i.e., hepatitis B [HepB] vaccine birth dose, hepatitis A vaccine...
  
• September 3, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 34
  Updated Recommendations for Prevention of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease Among Adults Using the 23-Valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine (PPSV23)
  This report provides updated recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for prevention of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) (i.e., bacteremia, meningitis, or infection of other normally sterile...

August 2010

• August 27, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 33
  Changes in Measurement of Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib)
  Vaccination Coverage -- National Immunization Survey, United States, 2009
  The National Immunization Survey (NIS) has introduced a new method for measuring Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) vaccination coverage. Since its inception in 1994, NIS has considered a child aged 19-35 months to...
  
• August 20, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 32
  National, State, and Local Area Vaccination Coverage among Adolescents Aged 13-17 Years -- United States, 2009
  This report summarizes results from 2009 NIS-Teen and updates data from 2008 NIS-Teen. Comparing 2009 with 2008, vaccination coverage among adolescents for the three routinely administered adolescent...
  
• August 6, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 31
  Update: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Regarding Use of CSL Seasonal Influenza Vaccine (Afluria) in the United States During 2010-11
  Postmarketing surveillance indicated increased reports of fever in children aged 5-8 years after vaccination with Fluvax compared to previous seasons. An antigenically equivalent 2010-11 Northern Hemisphere seasonal...
  
• August 6, 2010, Vol 59/ No. RR08
  Erratum: Vol. 59, No. RR08 for the MMWR:
  Prevention and Control of Influenza with Vaccines
  This report updates the 2009 recommendations by CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding the use of influenza vaccine for the prevention and control of influenza. The 2010 influenza recommendations include new and...

July 2010

• July 30, 2010, Vol 59/ No. RR07
  Yellow Fever Vaccine
  This report summarizes the current epidemiology of YF, describes immunogenicity and safety data for the YF vaccine, and provides recommendations for the use of YF vaccine among travelers and laboratory workers. YF is a...
  
• July 30, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 29
  Regional Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccination Campaign -- Skokie, Illinois, October 16-December 31, 2009
  This report describes the vaccination campaign of the Skokie Health Department (SHD), during October 16-December 31, 2009. The SHD campaign initially was planned to cover the 67,000 persons residing in Skokie only, but...
• July 29, 2010, Vol 59 Early Release
  Prevention and Control of Influenza with Vaccines
  This report updates the 2009 recommendations by CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding the use of influenza vaccine for the prevention and control of influenza. The 2010 influenza...
• e Family Practice News  July, 2010 (Vol 40, Issue 12)
  ACIP Group: HBV Vaccination For All Adults With Diabetes
  Hepatitis B vaccine, coupled with universal precautions and increased infection control, has been very effective in reducing the prevalence and incidence among health care personnel, and has the potential to do the same among...
• July 23, 2010, Vol 59/ No. RR06
  Use of Anthrax Vaccine in the United States
  This statement provides updated information on anthrax epidemiology; summarizes the evidence regarding the effectiveness and efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety of AVA; provides recommendations for pre-event and preexposure...
  
• July 9, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 26
  Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication -- Nigeria, January 2009-June 2010
  This report provides an update on poliovirus epidemiology in Nigeria during the past 18 months, January 2009-June 2010, and describes activities planned to interrupt transmission. Reported WPV cases in Nigeria decreased to...
  
• July 9, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 26
  Notes from the Field: Pertussis -- California, January-June 2010
  The number of pertussis cases reported to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has increased substantially during 2010. The increase in cases was first noted in late March among patients admitted…
• July 2, 2010, Vol 59/ No. 25
  Vaccinia Virus Infection After Sexual Contact with a Military Smallpox Vaccinee -- Washington, 2010
  This report describes the patient's clinical course and the associated epidemiologic investigation. Health-care providers caring for U.S. military personnel or their contacts should consider vaccinia virus infection in the differential...
  
• July 2, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 25
  Hepatitis A Vaccination Coverage Among U.S. Children Aged 12-23 Months-- Immunization Information System Sentinel Sites, 2006-2009
  The findings in this report are subject to at least three limitations. First, the analysis in this report is based on data from only eight IIS sentinel sites. Although these sites represent diverse regions of the United States, data from...
  
• July 2, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 25
  Announcements: Immunization Update 2010 Webcast
  Satellite broadcast and webcast on August 5, 2010. The presentation is expected to focus on current use of influenza, pneumococcal conjugate, human papillomavirus, and meningococcal vaccines...

June 2010

• June 11, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 22
  Addition of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency as a Contraindication for Administration of Rotavirus Vaccine
  Rotavirus vaccine (both RV5 and RV1) is contraindicated in infants diagnosed with SCID. SCID includes a group of rare, life-threatening disorders caused by at least 15 different single gene defects that result in profound deficiencies in...
  
• June 4, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 21
  Preliminary Results: Surveillance for Guillain-Barré Syndrome After Receipt of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine -- United States, 2009-2010
  This preliminary analysis showed an elevated, statistically significant association between 2009 H1N1 vaccination and GBS. If confirmed, the excess risk for GBS associated with 2009 H1N1 vaccine of 0.8 cases per 1 million vaccinations would be comparable to the excess described previously for some trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine formulations…

May 2010

• May 28, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 20
  Erratum: Vol. 59, No. 20 for the MMWR:
  FDA Licensure of Bivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (HPV2, Cervarix) for Use in Females and Updated HPV Vaccination Recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
  This report provides updated recommendations for routine and catch-up vaccination of females with either HPV2 or HPV4. Both HPV2 and HPV4 are composed of virus-like particles (VLPs) prepared from...
  
• May 28, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 20
  FDA Licensure of Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (HPV4, Gardasil) for Use in Males and Guidance from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
  This report presents the ACIP policy statement and summarizes background data. Issues reviewed by ACIP included efficacy, immunogenicity, and safety of the HPV4 vaccine in males, epidemiology of HPV and burden of...
  
• May, 2010 issue (Vol. 125, No. 5)
  Safety of Influenza Vaccine Administration in Egg-Allergic Patients
  This study evaluated the safety of bypassing the skin test and administering graded doses of influenza vaccine to egg-allergic children. METHODS We conducted a retrospective chart-review study of...
• May 7, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 17
  Hepatitis Awareness Month -- May 2010
  May 2010 marks the 15th anniversary of Hepatitis Awareness Month in the United States, and May 19 is World Hepatitis Day. Globally, viral hepatitis is the cause of most (78%) primary liver cancer, the third leading cause of cancer deaths in...
  
• May 7, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 17
  The Adult Hepatitis Vaccine Project -- California, 2007-2008
  This report summarizes results for 2007-2008, which indicated that 28,824 doses of HepB vaccine were administered at 29 participating sites in the first 19 months of AHVP; 13 sites administered HepB vaccine for the...
• May 7, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 17
  Rotavirus Vaccination Coverage Among Infants Aged 5 Months -- Immunization Information System Sentinel Sites, United States, June 2006-June 2009
  In June 2008, ACIP updated its recommendations to include use of a second rotavirus vaccine, a 2-dose monovalent vaccine, administered at ages 2 and 4 months. The maximum age for the first dose of either...
  
• May 7, 2010, Vol 59 / No. RR03
  Use of Combination Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella Vaccine
  This report presents new recommendations adopted in June 2009 by CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding use of the combination measles, mumps, rubella, and...
  
• May 2010 issue (Vol. 16, No. 5)
  Effects of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine 2 Years after Its Introduction, the Netherlands
  Shortly after introduction of PCV-7 vaccination for infants, the direct vaccine effectiveness on IPD caused by vaccine-serotype pneumococci appeared high in the Netherlands. However, the net benefit is...

April 2010

• April, 2010 issue (Vol. 125, No. 4)
  Gaps in Hospital Policies and Practices to Prevent Perinatal Transmission of Hepatitis B Virus
  This study examined how well national recommendations for perinatal HBV prevention advocated by the CDC and the ACIP are implemented by hospitals. It also reveals considerable gaps in hospital policies and practices...
  
• April 30, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 16
  Erratum: Vol. 59, No. 16 for the MMWR:
  Interim Results: State-Specific Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Coverage -- United States, August 2009-January 2010
  The advent of the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in April 2009 made the 2009-10 influenza season highly unusual. Public awareness of the potential seriousness of influenza was heightened by media coverage of...
  
• April 30, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 16
  Licensure of a High-Dose Inactivated Influenza Vaccine for Persons Aged ≥65 Years (Fluzone High-Dose) and Guidance for Use -- United States, 2010
  This report summarizes the FDA-approved indications for Fluzone High-Dose and provides guidance from ACIP for its use. Standard dose inactivated trivalent influenza vaccines contain a total of...
  
• April 2, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 12
  Erratum: Vol. 59, No. 12 for the MMWR:
  Interim Results: Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent and Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Health-Care Personnel--United States, August 2009-January 2010
  This report summarizes results of a population-based panel survey administered via the Internet during January 2010 to a nationally representative sample of 1,417 HCP to assess vaccination coverage...
  
• April 2, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 12
  Erratum: Vol. 59, No. 12 for the MMWR:
  Interim Results: State-Specific Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccination Coverage -- United States, October 2009-January 2010
  This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which found that, by state, estimated 2009 H1N1 vaccination coverage as of the end of January among persons aged ≥6 months ranged from...
• April 2010 issue (Vol. 16, No. 4)
  Alfred Russel Wallace and the Antivaccination Movement in Victorian England
  ...the conclusion that it is unwarranted to portray Victorian antivaccination campaigners in general as irrational and antiscience. Public health policy can benefit from history, but the proper context of the evidence used should always be kept in mind...

March 2010

• March 19, 2010, Vol 59 / No. RR02
  Erratum: Vol. 59, No. RR02 for the MMWR:
  Use of a Reduced (4-Dose) Vaccine Schedule for Postexposure Prophylaxis to Prevent Human Rabies
  This report summarizes new recommendation and updates previous recommendations of the ACIP for postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) to prevent
  human rabies...
• March 12, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 09
  Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Young Children Before Licensure of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine -- United States, 2007
  This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which found that among 427 IPD cases with known serotype in children aged <5 years, 274 (64%) were caused by serotypes contained in...
  
• March 12, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 09
  Licensure of a 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV13) and Recommendations for Use Among Children -- Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2010
  This report summarizes recommendations approved by ACIP on February 24, 2010, for vaccination with PCV13 of children aged 60-71 months with underlying medical conditions that increase their risk for pneumococcal disease...
• March 12, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 09
  Licensure of a Meningococcal Conjugate Vaccine (Menveo) and Guidance for Use -- Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2010
  On February 19, 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed a quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine, MenACWY-CRM (Menveo, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics). MenACWY-CRM is licensed as a...
• March 12, 2010, Vol 59 / No. RR01
  Japanese Encephalitis Vaccines Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
  This report provides recommendations for use of the two JE vaccines licensed in the United States for prevention of JE among travelers and laboratory workers. An inactivated mouse brain-derived JE vaccine (JE-MB) has been...
  
• March 2010 issue (Vol. 125, No. 3)
  Are Patient-Held Vaccination Records Associated With Improved Vaccination Coverage Rates?
  This study provides evidence of a positive association of vaccination record use with immunization rates. The results indicate that this simple intervention has a meaningful impact on vaccination rates, with the potential to...
  
• March 2010 issue (Vol. 16, No. 3)
  Effects of Mumps Outbreak in Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2006
  This study examines the outbreak epidemiology and quantifies the financial affect on this organization. This retrospective cohort study was conducted through case and exposure identification, interviews, medical record...
  
• March 2010 issue (Vol. 16, No. 3)
  Vaccine Preventability of Meningococcal Clone, Greater Aachen Region, Germany
  We tracked an outbreak clone that was causing considerable disease activity on the border of 2 industrialized European countries by using highly discriminatory and portable typing techniques. These techniques could...

February 2010

• February 26, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 07
  Presumptive Abortive Human Rabies -- Texas, 2009
  This report describes the clinical course and laboratory findings of an adolescent girl with encephalitis who had not had rabies vaccination and who had been exposed to bats 2 months before illness. Antibodies to...
• e Family Practice News  February 15, 2009 (Vol 40, Issue 3)
  Barriers Stymie Adult, Child Immunization
  The lack of a national immunization strategy for adults, such as the one in place for children, is one of the main reasons for the low immunization rates, in addition to the lack of insurance coverage...
• e Family Practice News  February 15, 2009 (Vol 40, Issue 3)
  Lancet Withdraws Article on Vaccine's Safety
  The U.K. medical journal the Lancet has taken the unusual step of withdrawing an article it published-a study of 12 children with behavioral disorders that developed following administration of vaccines or the onset of...
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• February 12, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 05
  Erratum: Vol. 59, No. 5 for the MMWR:
  Update: Mumps Outbreak -- New York and New Jersey, June 2009-January 2010
  This is the largest mumps outbreak that has occurred in the United States since 2006. Although mumps vaccination alone w6as not sufficient to prevent this outbreak, maintaining high measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination coverage remains the most effective way to prevent outbreaks...
• February 12, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 05
  Transmission of Yellow Fever Vaccine Virus Through Breast-Feeding -- Brazil, 2009
  This report summarizes the results of that investigation, which determined that the infant acquired yellow fever vaccine virus through breast-feeding. The mother reported 2 days of headache, malaise, and low fever...
• February 12, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 05
  Erratum: Vol. 59, No. 5 for the MMWR:
  Progress in Immunization Information Systems -- United States, 2008
  This report highlights results from the 2008 IISAR, which indicated that 75% of all U.S. children aged <6 years (approximately 18 million children) participated in an IIS in 2008, an increase from 65% in...

January 2010

• January 22, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 02
  Transfusion-Related Transmission of Yellow Fever Vaccine Virus -- California, 2009
  This report summarizes the subsequent investigation by the hospital and CDC to identify lapses in donor deferral and to determine whether transfusion-related transmission of YF vaccine virus occurred...
  
• January 22, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 02
  Interim Results: Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccination Coverage -- United States, October-December 2009
  This report indicates that, by the beginning of 2010, an estimated 20% of the population, or 61 million U.S. residents, had received 2009 H1N1 vaccine. Of persons in the groups initially targeted by ACIP for vaccination, an estimated 28% reported receiving 2009 H1N1 vaccine. The highest coverage (approximately 38%) was achieved among persons...
  
• January 15, 2010, Vol 59 / No. 01
  Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule -- United States, 2010
  The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) annually reviews the recommended Adult Immunization Schedule to ensure that the schedule reflects current recommendations for the licensed vaccines...
  
• January 8, 2010, Vol 58 / No. 51&52
  Recommended Immunization Schedules for Persons Aged 0 Through 18 Years -- United States, 2010
  The ACIP annually publishes an immunization schedule for persons aged 0 through 18 years that summarizes recommendations for currently licensed vaccines for children aged 18 years and younger and includes recommendations in effect as of December 15, 2009. Changes to the previous schedule include the following...
• January 8, 2010, Vol 58 / No. 51&52
  Announcement: National Influenza Vaccination Week January 10-16, 2010
  Throughout the week of January 10-16, 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services, CDC, and other agencies will be highlighting the importance of influenza vaccination...