Understanding the Burden: HPV Infection & Disease
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How Vaccines Have Become Victims of Their Own Success
BY DR. BENARD DREYER
It was late afternoon on a Friday when I got the call that there was a 5-year-old child with pneumococcal meningitis in the emergency room that needed to be admitted to the hospital. It was the first case like this that I had seen in many years. Meningitis is an infection of the covering of the brain and spinal cord, and pneumococcus is one of the bacteria that commonly caused meningitis in children before we started immunizing them with the pneumococcal vaccine in 2000.
http://www.livestrong.com/blog/vaccines-become-victims-success/
There Are Vaccines You Need as an Adult
Immunizations are not just for children. Protection from some childhood vaccines can wear off over time. You may also be at risk for vaccine-preventable disease due to your job, lifestyle, travel, or health conditions. Every year thousands of adults in the U.S. still suffer serious health problems, are hospitalized, and even die due to diseases for which vaccines are available. Here are the vaccines you need as an adult. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Paul Offitt: Let’s Not Talk About Sex
In this New York Times OP-ED, Paul A. Offit , professor of pediatrics in the division of infectious diseases, and director of the Vaccine Education Center, at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia talks about the importance of HPV vaccine in preventing cancer in our children. The New York Times
Vaccine Preventable Diseases A – Z
The use of vaccines has led to major improvements in child health over a relatively short period. Many of the infectious illnesses you or your parents had as children, from chickenpox to polio to measles, no longer affect most children today. If you follow the immunization guidelines recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), you can help make your child healthier than was ever possible in earlier generations.
American Academy of Pediatrics
Help Protect Your Preteen and Teen Against Meningococcal Disease
Make sure your preteen and teen get the meningococcal conjugate vaccine for protection against meningococcal disease, a very serious illness where death can occur in as little as a few hours. The meningococcal conjugate vaccine is recommended at 11–12 years of age and a booster dose at age 16.
http://www.cdc.gov/features/meningococcal/
The Basics of Vaccine Safety
Vaccines work best when most members of a community are vaccinated – the more people who are vaccinated, the lower the possible risk of anyone’s exposure to vaccine-preventable diseases.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention