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News:
Meningococcal Infections at Chicago http://files.e2ma.net/3505/assets/docs/mcv_notice.pdf
ICAAP News on 06/23/08 "DuPAGE COUNTY MEASLES OUTBREAK:
As of May 30, 2008 the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has confirmed a total of seven measles cases in school-age children in DuPage County. Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 103 cases in the United States... It appears that most of these children did not receive adequate vaccinations." "Measles cases led to quarantines in Milwaukee area." Infectius Diseases in Children June, 2008
* Reporting Measles Cases to Alicia Siston at 312/746-5901 during business hours within 24 hours, or by calling 311 and asking for the communicable disease physician on call. Outside the city of Chicago , all cases should be reported to the local health department.
"140 pertussis-related deaths from 2000 to 2005 compared with 103 from 1990 to 1999, predominant in babies younger than 1 year. " Reported by the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System. Infectius Diseases in Children June, 2008
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Influenza |
http://www.influenza-info.org/index.php
Kids Need Flu Vaccine, Too! New and updated online practice resources offered by The National Foundation for Infectious Disease (NFID) 12/2006
Resources for infectious diseases The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) is a non-profit, organization founded in 1973 and dedicated to educating the public and healthcare professionals about the causes, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases.
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CDC Recommendations for Hepatitis A Vaccination |
| Rotavirus (RotaTeq) |
Rotavirus Infections (National Library of Medicine)
CDC Issues Rotavirus Vaccine Recommendations (8/10/06)
RotaTeq and Intussusception- FDA Public Health Notification (02/13/07)
"According to the notification from FDA, approximately 3.5 million doses of RotaTeq were distributed in the United States as of February 1, 2007. Of the 28 reported cases of intussusception, it is not known how many, if any, were vaccine-related."
AAP Recommendations: Parents should contact their pediatricians immediately if the child has stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea, bloody stool or change in their bowel movements after RotaTeq injection , as these may be signs of intussusception.
FDA informed health care professionals that Rotateq gets label change. (Inf. Diseases in Children July, 2007) There were five cases of Kawasaki disease among the 36,150 infants who received Rota Teq and one case among the 35,536 infants who received placebo. "There is no known cause and effect relationship between receiving RotaTeq or any vaccine and the occurrence of Kawasaki disease."
kawasaki Disease KidsHealth
kawasaki Disease Mayo
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MCV4
meningococcal conjugate vaccination
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Risk factors for Meningitis
Information for Parents About Meningococcal Disease and Vaccine
CDC resources about meningococcal disease and meningitis
10/19/06 Update on Guillain-Barre Syndrom (GBS and Menactra (MCV4)Therefore, the CDC and AAP are recommending that routine vaccination continue of adolescents, college freshman living in dormitories, and other populations at increased risk of meningitis. People with a history of GBS should not receive MCV4. |
Tdap
tetanus,reduced diphtheria toxoids and pertussis (whooping cough) |
CDC Recommendations for Tdap Vaccine Use in Adolescents
AAP Policy on Adolescent Pertussis Vaccine
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HPV (GARDASIL)
Human Papillomavirus Virus
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CDC’s Advisory Committee Recommends (06/29/06)
HPV Vaccine Questions and Answers CDC
Information for HPV Vaccine (NNii)
AAP Issues HPV Policy Statementin June, 2007
"The AAP has just issued a policy statement recommending the use of the quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in girls and women. Girls 11 to 12 years of age should be immunized routinely with 3 doses of quadrivalent HPV vaccine. The vaccine can be given to girls as young as 9 years of age at the discretion of the physician. Girls and women 13 through 26 years of age who have not been immunized or have not completed the full vaccine series should receive quadrivalent HPV vaccine." |
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CDC. Licensure of a combined live attenuated measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine. MMWR 2005;54:1212--3
The information on MMRV vaccine and febrile seizures is available at
http://www.cdc.gov/od/science/iso/vsd/mmrv.htm and http://www.fda.gov/cber/label/proquadlbinfo.htm. |
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Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Guidance about how to obtain a VAERS form is available at http://www.vaers.hhs.gov or by telephone, 800-822-7967.
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