Hib Vaccine Resources
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Below are a number of resources designed to help healthcare professionals recommend and administer Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccines, as well as answer patient questions.
Vaccine Safety
- Childhood Vaccines and Febrile Seizures
- Hib Vaccine Safety and Monitoring
- Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
Provider Education
- Immunization: You Call the Shots — Haemophilus influenzae type b module
This training provides practice-oriented immunization content in a very basic step-by-step manner - Immunizing Children against Hib pdf icon[52 pages]external icon
International training module from the Children’s Vaccine Program at PATH - Podcast: Invasive Disease Caused by Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae
Released 11/17/2015, Run time: 6:28
Dr. Elizabeth Briere discusses nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae, which causes a variety of infections in children and adults
- Podcast: Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Disease, Europe, 1996–2006
Released 4/5/2010, Run time: 5:16
Monitoring of Haemophilus influenzae disease in Europe from 1996 through 2006; effect of vaccination on disease prevalence
Materials for Patients
- Easy-to-Read Schedules
- Fact Sheet: Hib Disease and the Vaccine (Shot) to Prevent It
- Fact Sheet: Hib Questions and Answers pdf icon[3 pages]external icon
Immunization Action Coalition - Hib Vaccine Information Statement
- Cochlear Implants and Vaccination Recommendations
Clinical Information
- Haemophilus influenzae Disease
- Use of Vaccines to Prevent Meningitis in Persons with Cochlear Implants
References and Resources
- Global Hib Data and Surveillanceexternal icon
World Health Organization’s surveillance, assessment, and monitoring… - CDC’s Active Bacterial Core Surveillance
- Hib Publications
Chapters, manuals, and articles on Hib vaccine recommendations, surveillance, epidemiology, outbreaks, and laboratory… - Surveillance Manual’s Chapter on Hib Disease
Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases textbook - Travelers’ Health (Yellow Book) Chapter on Immunocompromised Travelers
CDC Health Information for International Travel
Page last reviewed: February 13, 2018
Content source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases