Adult Vaccinations

CLOSE According to the Florida Health Department, hepatitis A is a highly contagious disease that attacks the liver. and the est way to avoid the virus is through diligent cleanliness and a vaccine. Wochit, Wochit There have been 23 confirmed cases of hepatitis A in Mississippi since April, leading the state health agency to label it an "outbreak." The Mississippi State Department of Health announced the outbreak Wednesday, saying in a press release the state is joining "surrounding states in fighting (a) national epidemic." “ An outbreak occurs when we see an increased number of cases greater than what is normally expected over time,” MSDH State Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers said in the release. “Since April we’ve seen 23 cases in Mississippi. We investigate all reported cases to identify their contacts and provide vaccination.” What is hepatitis A? Hepatitis A is a contagious liver disease that can be spread when a person ingests the virus throu...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Hundreds get free Hepatitis A vaccine in Washington County, Tennessee    WCYB JOHNSON CITY, Tenn--Health officials are urging people to get vaccinated after a possible exposure of Hepatitis A in Johnson City. If you went to the ... https://ift.tt/319vwzD

United Way of Martin County holds community conversations quarterly at First United Church. On Wednesday, health officials provided an update that showed no change in the number of hepatitis A cases. For the second straight week, Martin County is holding steady at 32 hepatits A cases, including four deaths. But, just as in other parts of Florida, officials expect more people will contract the highly contagious liver infection. “We looked not only at the local situation but the state situation and the national situation to help the community understand that this is not happening just in Martin County,” said Renay Rouse of the Florida Department of Health. “This is happening across the state and there are things people should be doing to protect themselves from hepatitis A.”The event focused on prevention and vaccination, offering and administering free on-site immunizations. Free shots are also available at the health department, as well at pharmacies and clinics in the county.“Since A...

According to a new report published by Allied Market Research, titled, “Global  BCG Vaccines Sales Market by Drug Type, Usage, End User, Region: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2018 – 2025,” the Global BCG vaccines sales market size is expected to increase and is anticipated to reach $65 million by 2025, registering a CAGR of 4.2% from 2019 to 2025. BCG vaccine is a live attenuated vaccine used for the prevention of tuberculosis. The types of BCG drugs include immune BCG and therapy BCG. The BCG vaccines sales market growth has increased owing to gained prominence in the recent years due to high prevalence of tuberculosis worldwide and rise in number of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases. However, replacement for BCG vaccine is expected to restrain the market growth. Download Sample Report @ https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/request-sample/2604 Depending on drug type, the immune BCG segment is the highest revenue contributor and is also expected to exhibi...

VALDOSTA – The month of August is about bringing awareness to immunizations, and the Georgia Department of Public Health wants Georgians to think ahead and get the required school vaccinations. Each week of National Immunization Awareness Month focuses on a different stage of the lifespan: • Pregnant women (Aug. 5-11). • Babies and young children (Aug. 12-18). • Preteens/teens (Aug. 19-25). • Adults (Aug. 26-31). • Back to School (July/August). “As you are making your back to school checklist, it’s a good time to prioritize vaccinating your family,” said Norma Jean Johnson, RN, county nurse manager. “Vaccines are the best defense we have against potentially deadly diseases and it is crucial that everyone that can get vaccinated gets vaccinated.” Before starting the 2020-21 school year, all students entering or transferring into 11th grade will need proof of a meningococcal booster shot, unless the first dose was received on or after the 16th birthday, health officials said....

Influenza (flu) vaccine efficacy (VE) varies each season based on the circulating flu strains and the patients receiving the vaccination. 1 Findings on the effectiveness of the flu vaccine have fluctuated from 2004 through 2018, based on reports from the US Influenza VE Network. The network’s investigators have found that on average, vaccination reduces the incidence of flu-like illness by approximately 40% to 60%. 2 The breakdown of the effectiveness of flu vaccines per season from 2004 to 2018 can be seen in the figure. 3 Effectiveness of the flu vaccine depends on 2 primary factors 2 : The specific characteristics of the individual being vaccinated (eg, age, health) Correspondence between the flu viruses the vaccine is designed to protect against and the flu viruses being disseminated throughout the environment Although vaccine effectiveness can be difficult to determine based on these factors, the results of recent studies indicate that flu vaccination still aids overall pu...

KANE COUNTY, IL — If you live in Kane County, the health department and Kane County Animal Control want to help ensure your children, dogs and cats are up to date with their vaccinations, and are hosting two upcoming vaccination clinics. Get your child vaccinated before they head back to school during the Kane County Health Department's free vaccination clinic Friday, Aug. 2, at Hosanna! Lutheran Church, 36W925 Red Gate Road in Saint Charles. The clinic will run from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. during the School Supply Give Away event, according to the health department. While no appointment is necessary to get your children vaccinated at the upcoming free clinic, the health department also said the vaccinations aren't for adults. The health department added that funding for the immunizations comes from a grant from the Illinois Department of Public Health. More: In addition, Kane County Animal Control (KCAC) will host an additional low-cost dog and cat rabies vaccination clinic...

Our coverage of concerns of a measles epidemic included a lively discussion online. Most of it supported vaccinations. “Thank you so much for taking the time to cover vaccination, vaccination rates and our completely preventable measles outbreaks. And thanks to the grand jury for providing a well-researched and thoughtful product in the face of fear mongering from the anti-vaccine activist camp. “The Centers for Disease control and prevention actually recommends a vaccination rate of 95 percent to protect community members, especially those that are unable to receive vaccination due to a verifiable medical condition. A June 17, 2019, article in Wired points to this fact and much more. “Perhaps most concerning is that once personal belief exemptions were eliminated in California, the rate of permanent medical exemptions rose steadily from 0.2 to 0.9 percent and is continuing to climb. This provides evidence that a significant number of medical doctors in California share responsibil...

SAN MARCOS, Texas (FOX 7 Austin) - The Hays County Local Health Department will be hosting an Immunization Fair next month to celebrate National Immunization Awareness Month. Hays County Commissioners proclaimed August to be National Immunization Awareness Month on July 30, says a release from the county.  According to the proclamation, children, adolescents and adults due from vaccine-preventable diseases, such as diphtheria, hepatitis A and B, human papillomavirus (HPV), influenza, measles, meningitis, mumps, pertussis, pneumococcal disease, polio, rubella, tetanus, and varicella, or complications from them every year. The fair, to be held from August 19-23, will offer free immunizations to eligible children and will also feature a bookmobile, free games, snacks and prizes. Emergency vehicles will be available for photo opportunities and agencies will be on hand to talk with parents about the services they offer. The proclamation encourages everyone to check that ...

When Cathy Kuhl’s husband was outside their residence with their granddaughter and Weimaraner, he saw something dark moving in the sky out of the corner of his eye. Before he knew it, the dog jumped up to grab a bat flying toward them. Kuhl’s husband noticed the bat flew erratically low, a sign that it could be sick. He killed the animal and took it to the MSU Extension office where they discovered it was rabid. Stories like this prompted Jenn Donovan, a public health nurse, Superior resident Diane Magone and Kuhl to organize a vaccination clinic in Superior. On Saturday, July 27, 31 residents from Mineral County lined up at the Superior Masonic Temple to get their pets vaccinated by Dr. Wolff, a veterinarian out of Plains. Dr. Wolff vaccinated 50 dogs and cats and gave 40 rabies immunizations. While Kuhl’s Weimaraner was vaccinated at the time of the bat incident, she says the dog would have been euthanized if it hadn’t been. “I know people in town years ago who had young lab pup...

As everyone prepares for the upcoming school year, vaccinations may be on their checklist. Vaccinations are required before students can enroll in school, according to the Florida Department of Health. These vaccinations are given to prevent kids, youth and young adults ages 4 to 20 from getting viruses such as measles, polio and chicken pox. To help parents, Broward Health, Memorial Healthcare System and Community Care Plan are hosting Vaccinate Broward this Saturday. They will offer vaccinations on-site along with education for guests. They plan to clear up misconceptions about vaccinations. There is national outbreak of measles, even though the virus was declared eradicated in 2000. Since May 2018, Miami-Dade had three cases and Broward had one in May. All told Florida has had 15 measles cases, the Miami Herald reports. According to a study published in May in Lancet Infectious Diseases, Miami-Dade and Broward are among 10 counties in the nation with the highest risk for a measle...

JACKSON, Miss.  — Mississippi health officials said the state, like others nationwide, is seeing an outbreak of contagious liver disease Hepatitis A and urging people to get vaccinated. Twenty-three cases of the disease have been confirmed in Mississippi since April, State Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers said in a statement Wednesday. Over the nine previous years, Mississippi averaged about five cases a year. Hepatitis A spreads through food or drink contaminated with feces of an infected person, personal and sexual contact with an infected person, and sharing objects with someone who is infected. Symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting; yellowing of the skin and eyes; and stomach pain, low appetite and fever. The state Health Department has investigated all cases to identify others who have been in contact and vaccinate them, Byers said. People most at risk include recreational drug users, current or recent jail inmates, men who have sex with men, and people wh...

The Department of Health is collaborating with Safeway Inc. and Albertsons Companies LLC and with the Department of Children, Youth, and Families to offer free measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccination for uninsured childcare workers and volunteers. As of July 28, Washington state law will require staff and volunteers of licensed child care centers to be immunized against measles. Fifteen Albertsons and Safeway pharmacies across the state will offer MMR vaccine free of charge through June 2020 to uninsured childcare staff and volunteers who need it. The pharmacies will also waive the administration fee. The cost and fees will also be waived for those who are underinsured and cannot afford the vaccine. Childcare staff and volunteers who have insurance also have options to get vaccinated. MMR vaccine for those age 19 and older is covered by most insurance companies and by Medicare and Apple Health (Medicaid). Learn more about the cost and coverage of adult vaccines. Washington als...

Employers at roughly 500 establishments in Franklin County have 90 days to vaccinate all food handlers against hepatitis A before they are allowed to work. If employers fail to vaccinate their employees, they face legal ramifications and can be prosecuted. The new health regulation for food handlers was drafted after two restaurants in the county were closed and mass vaccinations offered because an employee tested positive for the virus. In all, six county businesses and the county jail have been inspected during the hepatitis A outbreak and five food handlers have tested positive. The “simplified” commission order was approved Tuesday.  Tuesday’s regulation is a revision of a much more detailed vaccination order that was tabled July 23, classifying the violation of the vaccination order as a misdemeanor. Presiding Commissioner Tim Brinker said there has been a lot of research and discussion on this topic by the commission and the health department. “The pu...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Mississippi reports Hepatitis A outbreak    NBC 15 WPMI Today the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is reporting a hepatitis A outbreak in Mississippi, joining surrounding states and others across the ... https://ift.tt/335ZF4O

Influenza (flu) vaccine efficacy (VE) varies each season based on the circulating flu strains and the patients receiving the vaccination. 1 Findings on the effectiveness of the flu vaccine have fluctuated from 2004 through 2018, based on reports from the US Influenza VE Network. The network’s investigators have found that on average, vaccination reduces the incidence of flu-like illness by approximately 40% to 60%. 2 The breakdown of the effectiveness of flu vaccines per season from 2004 to 2018 can be seen in the figure. 3 Effectiveness of the flu vaccine depends on 2 primary factors 2 : The specific characteristics of the individual being vaccinated (eg, age, health) Correspondence between the flu viruses the vaccine is designed to protect against and the flu viruses being disseminated throughout the environment Although vaccine effectiveness can be difficult to determine based on these factors, the results of recent studies indicate that flu vaccination still aids overall pu...

In this file photo, Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas on Friday, March 8, 2019. less In this file photo, Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic ... more Photo: Vernon Bryant, MBR / Associated Press Photo: Vernon Bryant, MBR / Associated Press Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 In this file photo, Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas on Friday, March 8, 2019. less In this file photo, Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a ...

The HPV Vaccine Works It is unequivocal: The human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine prevents cancer . It is safe and recommended by governmental and professional societies worldwide. Yet uptake is unacceptably low . This is particularly the case in boys; immunization rates for males aged 9 -26 years have yet to catch up with those of females, a group that also has not met the Healthy People 2020 goal of 80% coverage . This is despite the fact that the vaccine has been recommended for use in boys for a full decade. [ 1 ] But maybe the tide is starting to turn. A recent study using National Immunization Survey—Teen data collected from 2011 to 2016 offers some hope. [ 2 ] The survey is a national random-digit-dialed telephone survey of teens aged 13-17 years and their families. Parents were asked whether they remembered if the child's provider recommended the HPV vaccine. In addition, medical providers of participating adolescents were contacted and asked to supply vaccination histor...

What’s happening with the response to the Ebola epidemic in DRC? The Ebola epidemic in east Democratic Republic of Congo is still not contained. More than 1,600 deaths from the Ebola virus have been reported since the outbreak was first declared on August 1 , 2018 and, during the first seven months of the epidemic (August 2018 to March 2019), over 1,000 confirmed and probable cases were declared.  Between March and June 2019, this number doubled, with 1,000 new cases in what’s a short period of time. The end of April was the peak, with more than 120 cases a week. There’s still a huge amount of new cases, between 75 and 100 every week. In a context like this, it’s extremely difficult to accurately track the epidemic’s chains of transmission. During the outbreak in 2014, all that could be done was to isolate patients and administer them largely ineffective drugs. With the vaccines and experimental drugs available to us in 2019, we’re now able to offer people the chance to protec...

July 31st, 2019 ― Doha: Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) has recently completed the monitoring of the second July polio vaccination campaign in Syria. Done in cooperation with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the campaign covered more than 815,000 kids in total. From house to house, QRCS’s personnel accompanied the vaccination teams across the Governorate of Idlib, as well as the countryside of Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama. Oral polio vaccines were given to the children who had not been covered by the previous campaigns. This is one more step towards zero polio transmission in the war-torn country. Earlier this year, QRCS's representation mission in Gaziantep, Turkey, held an intensive training course both in-house and inside Syria, to improve monitoring, planning, follow-up, and assessment skills among the monitoring personnel, prior to their deployment with the vaccinators. The process comprised three phases: (1) Pre-camp...

In 2014, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, six melanoma patients received infusions of an anticancer vaccine composed of their own dendritic cells. Our WashU colleagues had extracted immune cells from the patients’ blood two months earlier, cultured them in the lab, and mixed in peptides selected and synthesized based on specific mutations present in the genomes of each patient’s tumor… This first test of personalized cancer vaccines in people grew out of our collaborative efforts to develop a computational pipeline to identify tumor-unique mutations that could induce immune responses in cancer patients, helping them to fight their diseases. … In contrast to cell-based immune therapies, which directly provide the patient with tumor-attacking T cells, the idea was that these neoantigens could be used to create vaccines that stimulate the differentiation of endogenous killer T cells. … These results indicated that it was possible to prime the immune system to ...

Megan Bullard, 20, left, of Chelsea, Vt., grimaces as Vermont Rep. Rachel Weston, 25, D-Chittenden, right, of Burlington, Vt., holds hands with Alexandra MacLean, 24, center, of Montpelier, Vt., as Weston receives a vaccine against cervical cancer during the 2nd annual HPV and Cervical Cancer Reception and Dinner, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007, in Montpelier. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett) It’s only been a few years since researchers and public health officials determined that just two doses of the HPV vaccine , instead of three, are sufficient to protect people from the infection that can cause multiple cancers and genital warts, as long as they receive the vaccine in early adolescence. Now evidence is accumulating that suggests even one dose is enough. A study from Australia found high levels of protection in women who received only one dose of the HPV vaccine. Past research has already conclusively shown that three doses of the HPV vaccine are highly effective in protecting against ...

This is the first-ever government led vaccine trial after the BCG vaccine trial that was undertaken decades ago. After a detailed land scape analysis of the available vaccine candidates, two potential vaccines were shortlisted for a ICMR led Phase III trial of 12000 healthy house hold contacts of sputum smear positive TB patients. Clinical Development Services Agency (CDSA), launched by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India in 2009, has provided study start-up support to all sites and oversaw the recruitment and vaccination of the first participant at National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases (NITRD) New Delhi on 15th July 2019. The trial launch at NITRD, Delhi was attended by Dr. Balram Bhargava, Secretary, DHR & Director General, ICMR, Dr. Rohit Sarin – Director, NITRD, Dr. Manjula Singh- Scientist “E” EDC, ITRC-ICMR project team and CDSA team members - Dr. Monika Bahl, Ms. Shubhra Bansal,  Mr. T...

Lisa-Marie Weinmayr, 1 Jost Steinhäuser, 1 Svante Christoph Gehring, 2, 3 Katja Goetz 1 1 Institute of Family Medicine, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Luebeck 23538, Germany; 2 Ärztegenossenschaft Nord eG, Bad Segeberg 23795, Germany; 3 HANN Haus & Facharztnetz Nord GmbH, Norderstedt 22851, Germany Objective: The aims of the current analysis were to evaluate the vaccination status and attitudes towards vaccinations of elderly patients and to explore effects of a vaccination campaign. Methods: The data were raised in primary care settings by a physicians network which collected data during routine care from 697 patients and by the analysis of health insurance claims data from the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Schleswig-Holstein (KVSH/Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany), regarding vaccinations in the participating practices before and after a vaccination campaign. Results: Vaccination documentatio...

In this file photo, Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas on Friday, March 8, 2019. less In this file photo, Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic ... more Photo: Vernon Bryant, MBR / Associated Press Photo: Vernon Bryant, MBR / Associated Press Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 In this file photo, Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas on Friday, March 8, 2019. less In this file photo, Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a s...