Vaccine-Preventable Disease

Pfizer and BioNTech said Tuesday that they have submitted topline data on their COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years to the FDA.

A single dose of Vi-tetanus toxoid conjugate vaccine provided protection against typhoid fever in children aged 9 months to 16 years, according to data from a large study published in The Lancet.

Researchers from WHO and the CDC reported that measles cases reached a 23-year high in 2019. It was the top story in infectious disease last week.

Researchers in Kenya discovered a microbe in Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes that showed “high levels of impairment” of Plasmodium falciparum, a common malaria parasite in many African countries.

At least 80 million children aged younger than 1 year could miss routine vaccinations because of the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO and other groups warned today.

As of April 2, only 1.7% of COVID-19 cases in the United States occurred in children. Still, the pandemic has affected the lives and practices of pediatricians, who have seen caseloads decrease significantly and have had to come up with innovative ways to continue caring for their patients.

Many young children do not adhere to the early childhood immunization schedule recommended by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, study findings showed.

A type of herpes zoster vaccine reduced risk for stroke in Medicare beneficiaries aged at least 66 years, according to findings presented at the International Stroke Conference.

The percentage of Americans who feel strongly that parents should get their children vaccinated has dropped by 10 percentage points since 2001, according to a Gallup poll. The poll showed that only 45% of Americans believe vaccines do not cause autism in children.

European countries that mandated vaccination and imposed stiffer financial penalties for noncompliance had higher vaccination coverage against measles and pertussis, according to a study covering 29 European countries published in Pediatrics.