Immunization - Adult Immunization News

• Monkeypox Outbreak in Europe 'Largest Ever With 100+ Cases More than 100 cases of monkeypox, a viral infection more common to west and central Africa, have been reported in Europe, with German officials describing the outbreak as the largest ever in the region.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• WHO Calls Emergency Meeting as Monkeypox Cases Cross 100 in Europe The World Health Organization held an emergency meeting to discuss the recent outbreak of monkeypox after more than 100 cases were confirmed or suspected in Europe.
  Reuters Health Information, May 20, 2022
• FDA, AMA Prepare for Plan COVID Shots for Kids Younger Than 6 The FDA announced a June advisory committee meeting about COVID vaccines for kids younger than 6. The AMA has updated its billing codes ahead of an expected decision on Moderna's shot in this age group
  Medscape Medical News, May 23, 2022
• Pfizer Says COVID-19 Vaccine Response Robust in Young Children Much anticipated findings from Pfizer/BioNTech suggest three doses of COVID-19 vaccine protect kids ages 6 months to 5 years old.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Opponents of Federal Vaccine Mandate Seek Rehearing A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19.
  Associated Press, May 23, 2022
• Monkeypox Quarantines Not Needed in US, Biden Says 'I just don’t think it rises to the level of the kind of concern that existed with COVID-19, and the smallpox vaccine works for it,' President Joe Biden said.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Air Force Cadets Who Refused COVID Vaccine Won't Be Commissioned As of Saturday, the Air Force is the only military academy in which cadets aren't being commissioned because they refused to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.
  WebMD Health News, May 23, 2022
• Post-Infection Vaccination May Reduce Long COVID Symptoms on Population Level Vaccination after infection with SARS-CoV-2 may contribute to a reduction in the burden of long COVID symptoms in the population, a new study suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• US CDC Says COVID Vaccine-Related Myocarditis Much Lower for Children Than Teens The CDC on Thursday said rates of reported heart inflammation linked to the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have been much lower in 5- to 11-year-old boys than in adolescents and young men, and were only slightly elevated above normal.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• EU Health Regulator Backs Using AstraZeneca COVID Shot as Booster The European health regulator on Thursday endorsed the use of AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine, Vaxzevria, as a booster.
  Reuters Health Information, May 19, 2022
• CDC Signs Off on COVID Boosters in Children Ages 5-11 An advisory panel also called for stepped-up efforts to make sure children get their initial vaccines.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• RSV Kills 100,000 Kids Under Age 5 a Year Worldwide A new study is the first to filter RSV deaths into narrow age brackets. Researchers found that nearly half — 45,000 deaths — were in infants under 6 months old.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• Rabies: CDC Updates PrEP Vaccination Recommendations In trying to simplify recommendations and make rabies immunization less expensive, the CDC designated five risk levels with different advice based on the level of risk.
  Medscape Medical News, May 19, 2022
• This Rural County Was a Vaccine Success Story. Not Anymore. Meigs County, Tennessee, reported one of the highest COVID-19 vaccination rates in the South for much of the past year. But those reports were wrong because of a data error.
  Kaiser Health News, May 19, 2022
• Mozambique Detects First Case of Polio in 30 Years Mozambique on Wednesday declared a polio outbreak after the virus was detected in a child living in the northeastern Tete region, the first case of the poliovirus in the country in almost three decades, the World Health Organization said.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• When Africans Asked for COVID Shots, They Didn't Get Them. Now They Don't Want Them It's noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside, an area reserved for COVID-19 shots is empty. A health worker leans back in his chair and scrolls on a tablet.
  Reuters Health Information, May 18, 2022
• New Pandemic Peril? Pretending It's Over as Case Numbers Rise Just because many people seem more than ready to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind us doesn't mean it's really over.
  WebMD Health News, May 18, 2022
• Children and COVID: New Cases Up by 50% The new-case count was over 93,000 for the week of May 6–12, compared with 62,000 the previous week.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Omicron Breakthrough Cases Boost Protection, Studies Say The vaccinated people who had a breakthrough case of Omicron produced antibodies that helped protect against coronavirus variants.
  WebMD Health News, May 18, 2022
• How Better Ventilation Can Help ‘COVID-Proof’ Your Home Is someone at home sick with COVID-19? One simple but effective strategy for keeping the virus from spreading is to make your indoor air as much like the outdoors' as possible.
  Kaiser Health News, May 18, 2022