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New CDC Advisers to Vote on RSV and Influenza Vaccines for Children, Pregnant Women
Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are scheduled soon to cast votes on influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines, according to a document released on June 18. New members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) are slated on June 25 to offer a recommendation to the CDC on RSV vaccines for pregnant women and children, a draft agenda for the meeting states, as well as vote on RSV vaccines w…
The Danish Health Authority now recommends vaccinating pregnant women to protect the very youngest against RS virus, which sends hundreds of small children to the hospital every year, writes TV 2. For several thousand infants, the recommendation comes too late for them to benefit from the vaccine this year. The reason is that the Danish Health Authority only made its recommendation on May 22, and that the Ministry of the Interior and Health has …
Dr. José Gutierrez, member of the Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Principality of Asturias, highlighted that immunization against respiratory pathogens, such as the respiratory syncytial virus (VRS), pneumococcal virus, influenza or SARS-CoV-2, remains the "most effective" measure to reduce hospitalizations, complications and deaths in adults."We have clear prevention guidelines and effective vaccines, but the challenge now is to en…
Women who pass through the 32 and 36 weeks of pregnancy can be inoculated free of charge and thus favor the passage of transplacental antibodies so that newborns and infants acquire greater immunity against these respiratory infections. Health Director General Fernanda Nozar said the campaign is a fundamental prevention strategy for complications of respiratory infections in infants, such as bronchiolitis, which, in some cases, can be “very seri…
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