Showing posts with label Vaccination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vaccination. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 08, 2014

MMWR: CDC Interim Guidance On Polio Vaccination For Travelers To/From Countries With WPV

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Credit MMWR # 8811     Two months ago ( May 5th ) the World Health Organization -  after convening a meeting of their Emergen...
Saturday, August 31, 2013

New York State’s New HCW Flu Vaccination Policy

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Photo Credit – CDC PHIL     # 7620   Four years ago (2009), with the specter of the H1N1 pandemic looming, the state of New York...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

OIE: H7N9 Represents An `Exceptional Situation’

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  Map Credit ECDC   # 7014     While I was away from my desk Crof posted a statement (see OIE on the "exceptional nature...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Pakistan: Another Polio Vaccination Related Murder

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    # 6969   The murderous vendetta against polio vaccination teams in Pakistan continues with word today that a policeman was kil...
Friday, January 04, 2013

Pakistan To Resume Polio Vaccinations

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  # 6822     Three times in recent weeks we’ve seen horrific coordinated attacks made against aid workers, either involved with or...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Pre-Pandemic Vaccinations Revisited

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  Photo Credit PHIL   # 6428   In the wake of the publication of the Fouchier & Kawaoka studies ( see here & here )...
Friday, July 06, 2012

Study: Safety Of Drive-Thru Vaccination Clinics

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  Photo Credit PHIL   # 6422     During a severe influenza pandemic some health departments have developed plans to conduct dr...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

PNAS: H1N1 Vaccination Produced Antibodies Against Multiple Flu Strains

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  Photo Credit – CDC PHIL # 6338     In January of 2011 we saw a report out of Emory University and the University of Chicago th...
Sunday, April 08, 2012

EID Journal: Revisiting The `Canadian Problem’

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  Photo Credit PHIL # 6267     In September of 2009, just as the second wave of the H1N1 pandemic was ramping up, news of an un...
Friday, September 09, 2011

NPM11: Giving Preparedness A Shot In The Arm

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  Note: This is day 9 of National Preparedness Month.   Follow this year’s campaign on Twitter by searching for the #NPM11 hash tag...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

MMWR: ACIP Updated Flu Vaccination Recommendations

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      # 5764   ACIP , the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, issued their recommendations that practically everyone ove...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Lancet Perspective: Mandatory Flu Vaccination For HCWs

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    Photo Credit – CDC PHIL # 5709     A perspective appears today in The Lancet by Arthur Caplan , Ph.D., who is director o...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Pssst! Immunity . . . Pass it On

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      # 5648     Two related stories today involving expectant mothers and vaccines that have been in the news over the past 48 ...