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ACIP's chair signaled that new work groups will take up 2 new topics: cumulative vaccine doses in children and impacts from established vaccines, including hepatitis B in infants.
Also, the group recommends Merck's RSV preventive for babies and weighs in on the upcoming season's flu vaccines.
The announcement comes a week after New Mexico officials reported measles in a wastewater sample collected in the area, hinting of an undiagnosed infection.
The patients had contact with sick poultry, a feature of most H5N1 infections in Cambodia.
Experts warn that the federal vaccine advisory group's decision to revisit childhood immunizations and its controversial vote on thimerosal will undermine confidence in vaccines.
Listed in critical condition, the woman had recently handled and cooked sick poultry.
With brisk activity in Canada, Mexico, and the US, cases in the Americas region are up 29-fold compared to a year ago.
In a pre-recorded video delivered to Gavi leaders, Kennedy accuses the group of ignoring vaccine safety concerns and said the US government will withhold financial support.
The initial patient in Michigan's outbreak was exposed to a sick out-of-state traveler.
Also, Utah now has 3 measles cases in unvaccinated adults.
