Adult Vaccinations

A new study puts researchers within closer reach of vaccines that can protect infants against infections by overcoming a mother's antibodies, which are known to shut down immune defenses initiated by conventional vaccines. That hurdle largely explains why vaccinations for infectious diseases like influenza and measles not given until six to 12 months of age. Findings from the preclinical study were published online today in  Science Translational Medicine . The research team, led by Scott E. Hensley, PhD, an associate professor of Microbiology, and Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, a professor of Infectious Diseases in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, found that a specialized modified-RNA (mRNA) influenza vaccine developed at Penn successfully protected young mice against the infection in the presence of maternal antibodies. The study suggests this protection occurred because the vaccine programs cells to constantly churn out new antigens for a prolonged p...

OSWEGO — More than 60 cases of hepatitis A have been confirmed in Oswego County, the most of any county in the state, since a summer outbreak but transmission of the virus could be slowing down. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), outbreaks of hepatitis A have been occurring across the country in recent years. Oswego County health officials recorded 63 confirmed cases since a June outbreak in the state, but not a single case has been recorded so far in 2020. Oswego County Public Health Director Jiancheng Huang said the county has not had a confirmed case of hepatitis A since Dec. 23, adding local health officials are “closely monitoring the situation.” Hepatitis A is a liver infection caused by the hepatitis A virus, according to the CDC. Hepatitis A is very contagious, and people can spread the virus before they get symptoms such as nausea, stomach pain, and yellow skin or eyes. The state Department of Health (DOH) issues an advisory Dec. 12 ann...

RANDOLPH COUNTY, W.Va. (WDTV/Gray News) - The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health threat. West Virginia public school students currently are required to be immunized for chicken-pox, tetanus, polio, whooping cough, hepatitis-b, measles, mumps, rubella, meningitis and diphtheria. "Believe it or not, they are already working on a vaccine for this particular coronavirus. But, we do not have it yet." said Dr. Mary Boyd, a pediatrician and medical director of the Randolph Elkins Health Department. Reports analyzing CDC data show West Virginia has over 98% of kindergartners getting their MMR vaccines. "I will say, when I go to national conferences with pediatricians, I have all kinds of pediatricians from all over the country come up to me and say, 'how do you do it West Virginia?' How do we do it? We are doing great when it comes to that," said Dr. Boyd. West Virginia has strict vaccination requirements before stud...

Maine Gov. Janet Mills is urging voters to oppose a people's veto referendum in March that could scuttle a new law designed to increase child vaccination rates. Last year Mills signed a new law that eliminated non-medical exemptions for vaccines required to attend Maine schools. Opponents of the law are trying to leverage public distrust of pharmaceutical companies as a way to overturn it through a people's veto referendum. In her weekly radio address , Mills used the recent outbreak of a new virus in China as a case for vaccines, and she urged voters not be confused by the people’s veto messaging. "In trying to target so-called Big Pharma, whom nobody really likes, that campaign is purposely trying to conflate vaccinations with other issues like the opioid epidemic, when these issues are distinctly different," she says. Mills says the new law came as a response to the fact that Maine ranks seventh in the country for non-medical vaccination opt-out rates. But ...

A state medical official has filed disciplinary charges against a Santa Rosa physician who exempted three healthy youngsters from vaccination, part of a surge of medical exemptions after California repealed parents’ authority to keep their children from being vaccinated because of personal beliefs. The accusations of gross negligence or incompetence could lead to the suspension or revocation of Dr. Ron Kennedy’s license to practice medicine, which he has held since 1975. The allegations were filed Wednesday by Christine Lally, executive director of the Medical Board of California, and will be considered by the board at a future hearing. California requires schoolchildren to be inoculated against infectious diseases, including measles, mumps, chicken pox, tetanus, whooping cough, polio and rubella. Parents could formerly invoke personal opposition to vaccinations to exempt their children, but the state repealed the exemption in 2016 after an outbreak of measles traced to children at ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Explainer: When will there be a coronavirus vaccine?    NavyTimes.com

[unable to retrieve full-text content] When will there be a coronavirus vaccine? 5 questions answered    WKRC TV Cincinnati

The human papillomavirus, or HPV, is increasingly common in the United States: nearly 80 million people have it according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some strains of the virus — which does not always show any visible symptoms — are known to cause cancer, especially in the reproductive and digestive systems. But, unlike some other viruses, there is a vaccine that can help prevent HPV and the cancers that stem from it. The vaccine, known by the brand name Gardasil, was developed to stop nine of the more dangerous strains of HPV from spreading. It has been so effective that some countries are reporting dramatic declines in HPV infection rates. In England, for example, less than 2% of 16- to 18-year-old females had these infections. Another study found no HPV16 or HPV18 — two of the cancer causing strains — in a sample of 584 young women, according to press release from Public Health England. “This vaccine took 21 years to develop. It is an amazing vaccine,” Dr. D...

Level 2 [mid-level] evidence Measles outbreaks continue throughout the world, resulting in more than 100,000 deaths each year and millions of dollars spent to treat and prevent the spread of the disease. In 2019, more than 1270 new cases of measles were reported in the United States, the largest report of new cases since 1992. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 73% of the cases were linked to outbreaks in New York State and were concentrated in communities where children were unvaccinated. 1 Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children with the highly effective measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine provoke a variety of responses from clinicians, ranging from gentle frustration to outright anger. The vaccine prevents upward of 95% of clinical measles cases, yet rates of vaccination have declined precipitously since a fraudulent report published in The Lancet in 1998 associated the vaccine with the onset of autism; the report has since ...

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"Man worried about coronavirus still hasn’t gotten flu shot," reads a headline this week at The Beaverton -- one of The Onion 's numerous imitators, in this case based in Canada. Seldom will a mock news item of this kind develop a joke very far beyond what is given in the title. The reader watches, helpless, as a one-line premise is slowly beaten to death. But here the ironic "reporting" provides a hook for some real-life information that bears repeating. The anxious citizen is "very concerned that the Chinese and Canadian governments aren’t doing everything possible to prevent a pandemic like the SARS outbreak in 2003 that killed 774 people," we're told, "a number representing approximately 0.0011 to 0.0026 percent of the hundreds of thousands of annual worldwide deaths caused by influenza." Fretting that his grandmother wouldn't survive the coronavirus, he runs the risk of killing her himself: his failure to get a flu shot redu...

To the Editor: Several months ago, a nurse told me the DTaP (Diphtheria-Tetanus-acellular-Pertussis) vaccine was essential because of a surge in pertussis (whooping cough) cases on Mount Desert Island. The latest available Maine CDC annual report has no 2019 data, but it shows the number of pertussis cases each year averaging 432 for the past eight years. (Measles had only one case during that entire period, yet the news is all about measles, not pertussis.) This was during a period of 95.5 percent DTaP vaccine coverage for kindergartners, even higher for first and seventh graders. And it turns out that the average number of cases during that period for the highly vaccinated whole country was well over 25,000. Why? As famed vaccine developer Stanley Plotkin has pointed out, the vaccine’s effectiveness sometimes wears off in two to three years. The DTaP vaccine (and its teen/adult version, TDaP) is, in plain language, a failed vaccine. It may surprise those who claim vaccine scien...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Hanover County providing rabies vaccines Saturday    WWBT NBC12 News

That was a big missed opportunity. They and other scientists say SARS should have been seen as a coronavirus warning shot, not an isolated outbreak, and it should have triggered federal investments like the billions sunk into flu vaccines a decade or so earlier. They want the federal government to act rapidly now to declare a public health emergency, get a vaccine developed, have it approved by the FDA and ready to slow the Wuhan virus’ march across China and globe. Based on past experience, though, the chances of all that falling into place fast enough to turn the tide aren’t great, many scientists say. The NIH is working with a U.S. company Moderna Therapeutics to get a separate promising vaccine prospect into early testing within three months, NIAID director Anthony Fauci said this week. But in the best case scenario, he warned, it will take many months longer to get a vaccine into widespread use. Fauci at a scientific conference this week acknowledged the need to take the long ...

Shares of Moderna Inc. spiked 7.7% Monday before erasing those gains during the next few trading days. Photo: cj gunther/Shutterstock Jan. 31, 2020 7:00 am ET Biotechnology stocks that surged last week on hopes for a coronavirus vaccine have since shed their gains, highlighting the risks investors take when they invest in the volatile sector. Several biotech stocks surged after the companies said last Thursday that they were developing vaccines against a deadly new strain of coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China. Shares of Novavax NVAX -1.64% Inc. climbed 20% in the sessions following the announcement, but have since shed those gains. Shares of Moderna MRNA -4.14% Inc. popped 7.7% Monday before erasing those gains during the next few trading days, while Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. INO -5.15% shares shot up 25% Monday before paring most of the advance Tuesday. While some buyers may have pegged their hopes on the possibility of a quick vaccine, others were like...

Vaccine controversy, Science News , January 31, 1970 — In the early 1950s, when smallpox was declared officially to have been wiped out in the United States, specialists in infectious diseases began to argue whether the risks of [smallpox] vaccination finally outweighed the benefits…. Today, many specialists hold that vaccination against smallpox is no longer justified in this country. Update Routine smallpox vaccinations in the United States ended by 1972 and globally by 1980, when the disease was declared eradicated. But the world isn’t totally safe from smallpox. Russian and U.S. labs keep samples of the disease-causing virus for research, and weaponized versions may exist. In 2003, the U.S. government pushed to restart vaccinations for health workers and first responders as a precaution against potential bioterrorist attacks. That effort failed, partly because people feared the possibility of health complications from the vaccine. But U.S. officials have stockpiled smallp...

DEERWOOD -- A low cost vaccination clinic sponsored by the Minnesota Humane Society will be noon to 5 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Deerwood Auditorium, 23770 Forest Road, Deerwood. The veterinarian will be Dr. Stahl of Iron Range Veterinary Clinic. Exams will be $7. Rabies vaccination will be $5 and distemper combo will be $8 with both vaccines requiring an exam. For those interested, contact Minnesota Humane Society at info@mnhumane.org to schedule an appointment by Thursday, Feb. 6. Appointments only. No walk-ins accepted. Limited space available. People must meet income requirements or receive public assistance to be eligible.

RANDOLPH COUNTY, W.Va. (WDTV)-- The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global health threat. West Virginia public school students currently are required to be immunized for chicken-pox, tetanus, polio, whooping cough, hepatitis-b, measles, mumps, rubella, meningitis and diphtheria. "Believe it or not, they are already working on a vaccine for this particular coronavirus. But, we do not have it yet." said Dr. Mary Boyd, a pediatrician and medical director of the Randolph Elkins Health Department. Reports analyzing CDC data show West Virginia has over 98% of kindergartners getting their MMR vaccines. "I will say, when I go to national conferences with pediatricians, I have all kinds of pediatricians from all over the country come up to me and say, 'how do you do it West Virginia?' How do we do it? We are doing great when it comes to that," said Dr. Boyd. West Virginia has strict vaccination requirements before students are a...

Share on Pinterest Multiple companies are working on a vaccine to fight the new coronavirus. Getty Images Several groups are working on a vaccine for the new coronavirus, but there’s no guarantee that it will be ready before the end of the current outbreak. One group says they may have an experimental vaccine ready for initial testing in just a month. But experts caution this expedited timeline doesn’t always allow for careful evaluation of the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines. Since 2003 the world has faced three outbreaks caused by coronaviruses — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), and now the current outbreak caused by a virus known as 2019-nCoV. Scientists have yet to find a way to stop these outbreaks before they start. But over the past 17 years, they have drastically shortened the time it takes to develop a vaccine after a new virus emerges. This is largely due to technological advances and a greater commitment...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Vaccine trials for deadly coronavirus to start in 3 months, UW confirms    KOMO News

level 2 [mid-level] evidence Measles outbreaks continue throughout the world, resulting in more than 100,000 deaths each year and millions of dollars spent to treat and prevent the spread of the disease. In 2019, more than 1270 new cases of measles were reported in the United States, the largest report of new cases since 1992. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 73% of the cases were linked to outbreaks in New York State and were concentrated in communities where children were unvaccinated. 1 Parents who choose not to vaccinate their children with the highly effective measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine provoke a variety of responses from clinicians, ranging from gentle frustration to outright anger. The vaccine prevents upward of 95% of clinical measles cases, yet rates of vaccination have declined precipitously since a fraudulent report published in the Lancet in 1998 associated the vaccine with the onset of autism; the report has since b...

HPV16 and 18, two of the most high-risk cancer-causing types of human papillomavirus, have been almost eliminated from young women in England thanks to the introduction of a mass vaccination program in schools. The latest statistics from Public Health England (PHE), released on January 22, suggest there has been a dramatic collapse of HPV16/18 infections in sexually active young women living in England. Within a sample group of 584 women age 16 to 18, they detected zero HPV16/18 infections in 2018. By comparison, around 15 percent of young women were infected with these types of HPV in 2008, the year the vaccination program was introduced. Although the sample size is relatively small, fewer than 600 people, the report suggests the figures highlight a much wider decline in the virus in England.  “This is clear evidence of the success of our immunisation programme, which continues to achieve high coverage,” Dr Vanessa Saliba, consultant epidemiologist at PHE, sa...

More than 74m cervical cancer cases and 62m deaths could be averted in the next 100 years if 78 of the world’s poorest countries rapidly deploy HPV vaccinations, cervical screening and cancer treatment, two new studies have projected. The predictive modelling is published on Friday in Lancet by Université Laval, Harvard University and Cancer Council New South Wales working with the World Health Organisation. All three teams independently developed their models based on the biological understanding of cervical cancer, and multiple data sources from multiple countries located in east Asia and Pacific, Europe and central Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. “One of the exciting things for us about the new studies is the three teams did independent work but got very similar results,” director of research at Cancer Council NSW and adjunct professor Karen Canfell said. Cervical cancer is an avoidable disease – in ...