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Influenza |
http://www.influenza-info.org/index.php
Flufacts.com an excellent website for the information of diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of influenza.
The flu and flu shot season is here. Please take you children to doctors' office to get flu shots as soon as possible.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downloads/vis-flu.pdf Inactivated Influenza
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/vis/downloads/vis-flulive.pdf Live, Intranasal Influenza
After Shots Care (IAC) Spanish
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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| Hepaptitis A |
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."
AAP News in Oct. 2008 "Every year, about 12,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer and almost 4,000 die from it." |
| MMRV |
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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