Vaccination

Accurate influenza diagnosis and vaccination could curtail unnecessary antibiotic use and help reduce the global threat of antibiotic resistance, according to findings in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Accurate influenza diagnosis and vaccination could curtail unnecessary antibiotic use and help reduce the global threat of antibiotic resistance, according to findings in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Influenza vaccination demonstrated similar protection against hospital-associated influenza and milder, outpatient instances of the illness over three influenza seasons, according to findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

According to the data from the CDC, 70% of children in the United States aged 19 to 35 months receive the combined seven-vaccine series in 2017. In the past 12 months in the U.S., 50% of children aged 6 months to 17 years, 34% of adults aged 18 to 49 years, 47% of adults aged 50 to 64 years and 69% of adults aged 65 years or older received an influenza vaccination.

The FDA has recently approved MenQuadfi, a meningococcal conjugate vaccine that protects against serogroups A, C, Y and W. The approval is for patients aged 2 years and older, according to a press release from the manufacturer.

According to data from PCC, an independent firm that provides pediatric electronic health records software, pediatric vaccinations are down as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two doses of the recombinant herpes zoster vaccine Shingrix induced “strong and persistent” immune responses in older adults, irrespective of whether they previously received the live-attenuated herpes zoster vaccine, Zostavax, according to results from a study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Ebola virus was first discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River in Zaire, Africa, an area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Two consecutive outbreaks of fatal hemorrhagic fever in two separate regions of Central Africa prompted the discovery of two genetically distinct viruses: Zaire ebolavirus and Sudan ebolavirus. Upon discovery, scientists concluded that the viruses, while similar, actually came from two separate sources and spread independently to people in each of the affected areas.

Women who received the HPV vaccine after surgical excision for high-grade cervical dysplasia had lower risk for recurrence than women who received placebo or surgery alone, according to results of a systemic review and meta-analysis presented at the virtual Society of Gynecologic Cancer Annual Meeting.

Amid a growing COVID-19 pandemic, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, or GPEI, recommended that polio vaccination campaigns be postponed until the second half of the year and that countries responding to outbreaks of polio suspend those efforts until June 1, and then re-evaluate the situation.