Shingles: Raising Awareness and Promoting Vaccination
Despite the availability of a highly effective shingles vaccine and almost universal risk among those born before 1980, Americans are not getting vaccinated.
Despite the availability of a highly effective shingles vaccine and almost universal risk among those born before 1980, Americans are not getting vaccinated.
The bivalent vaccine contains the original strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and a strain from the BA.4 and BA.5 lineages of the Omicron variant.
NFID survey show beliefs about influenza and pneumococcal disease, as well as attitudes and practices around vaccination, including the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
What factors influence the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccination with inactivated virus? Two studies of Indonesian health care workers explored this question.
Dr Robert Popovian discusses access to immunization services among adults in low-income communities and efforts to expand pharmacists’ authority to administer vaccines to increase vaccination rates for this vulnerable population.
Researchers assessed the efficacy of an adjuvanted enterovirus 71 (EV71) vaccine for the prevention of EV71-associated infections among infants and children.
Researchers conducted a retrospective review that evaluated the field effectiveness of tick-borne encephalitis vaccination across all patient age groups.
Researchers conducted a study to determine whether homologous COVID-19 vaccination increases in vitro neutralizing activity against seasonal human coronaviruses.
Researchers sought to assess outcomes among patients in South Africa who were hospitalized with COVID-19 infection during the Omicron wave compared with previous waves.
During a season predominated by 2 vaccine-mismatched viruses, vaccination was estimated to reduce the risk of life-threatening influenza illness by 75%.