Childhood Vaccines

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NEWS SCAN: Salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers, new poxvirus, Nipah near Australia, app for kids' vaccines

Apr 25, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Low-path H5N1 in Germany, cutting West Nile monitoring, response to adverse vaccine events

Apr 22, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Vaccines and autism, polio in Pakistan, managing Q fever, H3N2 flu in pigs

Mar 29, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 in Nepal, call for BioWatch contractors, undervaccinated tots, thimerosal exemption, poliovirus in Egypt, dengue in Brazil

Jan 22, 2013

 

IOM study finds child vaccine schedule safe

(CIDRAP News) – An Institute of Medicine (IOM) review of the safety of the US childhood vaccine schedule turned up no signs that it is unsafe and found that existing vaccine safety databases are best poised—with a few tweaks—to further explore additional questions, according to a report yesterday.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Coronavirus controversy, more fungal infections, DTaP reactions in kids

Jan 14, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: FDA food safety costs, persistent Lyme arthritis, deans condemn CIA vaccine ploy, vaccine reminders

Jan 8, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: More fungal infections, thimerosal in vaccines, malaria efforts tapering

Dec 17, 2012

 

Study shows drop-off in kids' pertussis vaccine protection

(CIDRAP News) – The largest study so far exploring gaps in acellular pertussis vaccine protection in kids found that their risk of getting sick increased as time passed after the final dose, according to researchers who examined the role of the vaccine during California's 2010 pertussis epidemic.

Lisa Schnirring
 

Study shows modest benefits for malaria vaccine in infants

(CIDRAP News) – The latest trial of the world's first malaria vaccine showed it was only modestly beneficial in African infants, a somewhat disappointing finding after an earlier part of the study showed that it halved cases in older babies.

Lisa Schnirring
 

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