Adult Vaccinations

ATLANTA — Within 10 years of vaccine introduction, HPV prevalence decreased 86% among females aged 14 to 19 years in the United States, and 71% in women aged 20 to 24 years, according to study findings presented at the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, or EIS, conference. Speaking during a news conference, Nancy McClung, P h D, an EIS officer in the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, called the findings “very encouraging.” “The HPV vaccine prevents HPV infections that cause cancer and other conditions, and cervical cancer is the most common cancer caused by HPV in females,” McClung said. “The CDC has been monitoring HPV infection among females in the United States since the vaccine was first introduced in 2006.” According to the study, McClung and colleagues used the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to evaluate quadrivalent vaccine (4vHPV)-type prevalence among 4,674 females in the prevaccine (2003–2006) and vaccine (2013–2016) eras...

PHILADELPHIA -- A new colorectal cancer vaccine showed positive results in the phase 1 clinical trial to demonstrate that the approach is safe. The patients treated had no signs of serious adverse events and samples of their blood contained markers of immune activation -- an early indication that the vaccine could activate immune cells to fight colorectal tumors and metastases. Further tests to determine if the vaccine is effective at slowing tumor growth are forthcoming. The results were published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer. Colon cancer, especially in younger people, is on the rise and is currently the second highest cause of cancer deaths in the US and worldwide. Surgery can cure the disease in many patients, but prognosis is poor for those with recurrence of their disease. If it proves effective in larger-scale trials the vaccine, developed by researchers at Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University), could train the patient's immune ...

Surging sales of vaccines and the cancer immunotherapy drug Keytruda led to a quadrupling of profit at Merck during the first quarter as it blew past Wall Street expectations. Sales of Keytruda jumped 55% to $2.27 billion, about one-quarter of total revenue. During the quarter, the injected biologic drug racked up U.S. approvals as an initial treatment for advanced kidney cancer and advanced nonsmall-cell lung cancer and for treating melanoma after surgery. Keytruda is now approved for nearly 20 cancer types and patient groups here, and recently got approval for treating lung cancer patients in China, a huge market where Merck is ahead of competitors. Merck research head Roger Perlmutter told analysts on a conference call that the company just listed its 1,000th Keytruda patient study —either ongoing or completed — on the U.S. clinical trials registry site. The maker of Januvia Type 2 diabetes pills posted higher sales for all its vaccines, particularly Gardasil, which prevents a c...

Technology could play a major role in overcoming some of the barriers to the uptake of adult vaccinations argues a new report, “Data, bots and drones”, published by the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC) “Data, bots and drones”, published by ILC during World Immunisation Week, looks at the role technology might play in increasing vaccination coverage among adults and older people. The ILC report, supported by a grant from Sanofi, finds that the use of big data, gamification, the sharing economy and AI amongst others, offers opportunities to overcome barriers to vaccination uptake and counter misinformation and fake news on the value of vaccination. The report highlights how growing anti-vaccination sentiments have been impacting on immunisation uptake across Europe and worldwide but notes that a “fightback” has begun with pro-science doctors and healthcare organisations developing a more savvy online presence and better content to respond to the anti-vaccination movement. ”Da...

Dr Tarun Sahni, Senior Consultant, Internal Medicine, Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals gives an insight on the importance of vaccines The ongoing World Immunisation Week is an opportunity to promote vaccination amongst communities and people to ensure their health and protect them against communicable and non-communicable diseases. Widely recognised for its success in saving lives of millions of people world over, nationwide immunisation programmes have helped reach out to even the unreachable communities with cost-effective health interventions. Vaccination is not just alone meant for children. They are meant to support good health and add value in the life of an adult. Vaccines protect us at every stage of our life. In adult life, one needs to get vaccinated to boost efficacy of the vaccines given in childhood. World Health Organisation (WHO)’s theme of this year’s campaign is “Protected Together: Vaccines Work”. There are challenges in implementing immunisation programmes, which are...

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MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says he supports a bipartisan bill in the state Legislature designed to increase the number of children who get required vaccinations. The bill introduced Tuesday removes a personal conviction exemption that allows parents to opt their children out of getting the required vaccinations. It comes as the nation grapples with the highest number of measles cases in decades. Evers calls it a critical issue and says, "We just have to understand there are some requirements the state must have to keep everybody safe." The bill was introduced by Assembly Democratic Minority Leader Gordon Hintz. He says the bill is needed because of Wisconsin's liberal opt-out policy on vaccinations that's been used by more than 5 percent of children, more than double the national average. Twenty years ago only 1 percent opted out. http://strib.mn/2DElnS0

| Apr 30, 2019 @ 12:27 PM (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) Illinois is continuing its efforts to boost vaccination rates in the state as a measles epidemic continues to spread. This year, seven people in Illinois have gotten the disease. The state stopped covering vaccines for kids covered by the state’s CHIP program in 2016. The state is working to hold off the epidemic by educating the public about the true effects of vaccines. http://bit.ly/2V7Eyyk

People walk past a sign outside of health clinic with warnings about measles in the Orthodox Jewish area of the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. (Justin Lane/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) The fight over measles is moving from the streets of Williamsburg to the gilded halls of the State Capitol in Albany. There, lawmakers, local politicians and anti-vaccination activists are girding for a fight over the state’s rules that allow parents to keep their children unvaccinated for religious reasons. State senators are proposing to eliminate the religious exemption, citing it as a key reason for the spread of measles. “You have a First Amendment right to practice your own religion, but you do not have the right to endanger your children or worse other people’s children,” state Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Democrat from Manhattan, said at a press conference in Albany Monday. Hoylman, the sponsor of S2994 , and fellow supporters argue that the sizable number of unvaccinated children in Rock...

MSD (http://www.MSD.com), known as Merck in the United States and Canada, has joined calls for more action to ensure a larger number of people across Africa are vaccinated against life-threatening diseases. As the continent marks African Vaccination Week, the annual World Health Organisation (WHO) initiative to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease, MSD has added its voice to calls for African countries to intensify efforts to ensure all people receive the lifesaving benefits of vaccines. More than 500 million children under the age of 5 years die from vaccine-preventable diseases in Africa each year, representing 56% of the global deaths related to vaccine-preventable diseases. Immunisation is critical to preventing these deaths and helping children everywhere survive and thrive  [i] . “Vaccination at all stages of life - infancy, childhood, adolescence and adulthood - can help save lives by preventing many of the life-threatening diseases af...

First, the good news. "Here in Escambia (County) we have had only one case (of Hepatitis-A), and that was in a person who came to our area from a different country" said Dr. John Lanza, Director of the Florida Department of Health in Escambia County. He says a few of our neighboring counties have not been as lucky. "Santa Rosa (County) has had several cases, Okaloosa has had some cases over the past few months. (That's) higher than is typically seen." The reason Hepatitis-A is starting to get attention in Florida is because of an outbreak of the disease in Martin County, on the Atlantic coast just north of Palm Beach County. As of mid-April there are have been 19 confirmed cases of Hepatitis-A in Martin County. Even more surprising than that number is that there have been three confirmed deaths from complications of the disease. "That is surprising because typically the vast majority of people who are infected with Hepatitis-A recover completely wit...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.-- A hepatitis A outbreak continues to grow, with 70 cases reported last week in Florida, according to the state Department of Health website. As of Saturday, 954 cases of the contagious liver disease had been reported in the state this year, compared to 549 cases in all of 2018 and 276 cases in 2017. RELATED: Questions about hepatitis A vaccine | Ask the Pediatrician: hepatitis A Health officials say the outbreak began last year, and 97 percent of the cases since Jan. 1, 2018, have likely been acquired in Florida. During that period, Pinellas County has had the most cases, with 319. Pinellas has been followed by Pasco County with 267 cases; Orange County with 179 cases; and Hillsborough County with 165 cases, according to the Department of Health website. Hepatitis A can be spread through such things as food or drinks that have been contaminated with fecal matter from people with the disease. Health officials have urged people to get vaccinated against the dis...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - Health officials are saying the Hepatitis A outbreak is growing, with seven new cases reported in Orange County in the past week. The county has recorded 86 cases of Hepatitis A so far in 2019, which is the third most in the state. Related Headlines Nurses are beginning to take prevention efforts in the community in a measure to stop the outbreak. "It makes you feel a little better knowing you at least have a little bit of guard against it," said Rene Sullivan, a homeless woman who received a Hepatitis A vaccine from a group of nurses. The homeless community is among the hardest hit from the recent outbreak. The health department said it's working with community groups to vaccinate the most at-risk, including the homeless, IV drug users, men who have sex with men and inmates. Florida already has more than 950 cases in 2019, which nearly doubles 2018's total. Orange County officials have yet to be able to identify why the numbers are so...

With a measles outbreak continuing across the country, a discussion is ongoing in New York about how to handle the outbreak. County leaders were at the Capitol on Monday, pushing legislation to eliminate religious exemptions. Senators Brad Hoylman and David Carlucci have introduced companion senate bills to eliminate the religious exemption in New York state. Lawmakers say with the largest outbreak in the U.S. since 1994, it's time for New York to get on board. Rockland County, the epicenter of the spread of the measles across 22 states, has 202 cases as of Monday morning. The CDC’s latest numbers state there are 704 cases of the measles across the country — the most since 1994 — after measles were declared eradicated in 2000. "This bill is gonna be a godsend," Rockland County Executive Ed Day said. "Here now, in New York state, we have over 600 cases of measles. The difference between California and New York is that California very quickly moved to eliminate a...

Citation: Hatherill M, Chaisson RE, Denkinger CM (2019) Addressing critical needs in the fight to end tuberculosis with innovative tools and strategies. PLoS Med 16(4): e1002795. http://bit.ly/2GSto6G Published: April 30, 2019 Copyright: © 2019 Hatherill et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work. Competing interests: I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: REC, CMD, and MH are Guest Editors on the PLOS Medicine Tuberculosis Special Issue. Their competing interests can be found at: https://collections.plos.org/s/tb-special-issue-guest-editors . Abbreviations: BCG, Bacille Calmette Guerin; DST, drug susceptibility testing; LAM, Lipoarabinomannan; M...

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What happened to the incubation periods at quarantine stations in Ellis Island? Why does coming here illegally exempt aliens from the laws on the books that make them inadmissible until we know they are not a threat? On Sunday, Aaron Hull, chief patrol agent of the El Paso sector, divulged to the public what we already suspected but most government officials assiduously covered up. The head of the second busiest illegal immigration corridor told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is increasingly “caring for more and more sick people, because a lot of these aliens coming in are carrying contagious health conditions, things like chicken pox, scabies, tuberculosis, lice.” Tuberculosis. That is the disease we sought to eradicate through our laws as early as 1907 by requiring every prospective immigrant to wait at Ellis Island, away from the population, until they got the green light to enter. That is a far cry from what a CBP official told me two weeks ...

Even caregivers whose children receive the first dose of influenza vaccine may be vaccine hesitant and have inaccurate beliefs regarding influenza vaccine and disease, according to a new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) study that was a collaboration between investigators at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and the AAP. The study assessed vaccine hesitancy and influenza disease and vaccine beliefs among caregivers of children who received the first of the two required influenza vaccine doses. To receive adequate protection against influenza, many children six months to eight years old need two doses of influenza vaccine in a season. Only half of those receiving a first dose receive a second. "In our study, over 90% of caregivers, whose children required two doses of influenza vaccine that season, believed that their child would be 'protected with only one flu shot'...

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