More than two vaccine doses are not recommended “unless you are a lab worker who works with live mpox and other related viruses in a research lab. Vaccine recommendations are based on the level of risk from potential exposures,” Dr. Justin Chan, director of infection prevention and control...
CDC Recommends Second Dose of 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine for People 65 Years and Older and for People Who are Moderately or Severely Immunocompromised CDC Recommends Lowering the Age for Pneumococcal Vaccination from 65 to 50 Years Old Severe E. coli outbreak in Mountain West states linked to ...
Last week, the CDC said ithad now recordedmore than half a million first doses of vaccine administered nationwide. That works out toaround a thirdof the number of people the White House estimates are "most at risk of contracting the virus." Citing agrowing supply of the shots, federal hea...
FDA Approves of Leaky Mpox Vaccine That May Cause Heart Inflammation in ‘About 1 in Every 175 Persons’ September 21, 2024 Ohio Star Staff Late last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a monkeypox vaccine that is known to “shed from the vaccination site” and...
SUGGESTED for you Arjun Srinivasan, MD, associate director for healthcare-associated infection prevention programs at the CDC, said the decline in part may be the result of misinformation. Healthcare personnel "are not fully immune from vaccine misinformation," he said, adding that such misinformatio...
1. Updated travel-associated disease content, format, and vaccine tables CDC Yellow Book 2024 covers travel-associated infections and diseases, organizing content intofour parts: bacterial, viral (including COVID-19 and Mpox), parasitic, and fungal. Descriptions of each infection or disease begin ...