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CDC issues an MMWR Early
Release titled "Early Season
Pediatric Influenza B/Victoria
Virus Infections Associated
with a Recently Emerged Virus Subclade—Louisiana, 2019" |
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CDC issues Health Alert
Network (HAN) advisory due to
elevated influenza activity |
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CDC releases updated VISs for
rabies, adenovirus, and
anthrax |
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Dr. Deborah Wexler's VEC Technically Speaking column
about ACIP's updated
pneumococcal vaccine
recommendations for adults age
65 years and older is now
available on immunize.org |
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IAC Spotlight! IAC's ACIP web
section on immunize.org
provides links to both current
and past ACIP recommendations |
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IAC's elegantly designed
"Vaccines Save Lives" black
enamel pins are a great way to
show you value immunization! |
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Flu season is ongoing, so make
sure you have IAC's "FLU
VACCINE" buttons for staff and
stickers for patients on hand! |
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| IAC Handouts |
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IAC updates "Current Dates of
Vaccine Information
Statements" and "You Must
Provide Patients with Vaccine
Information Statements
(VISs)—It's Federal Law!" |
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| World News |
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WHO reports on 2019 influenza
season in the southern
hemisphere in this week's
Weekly Epidemiological Record |
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WHO publishes article titled
"Deaths from Democratic
Republic of the Congo Measles
Outbreak Top 6000" |
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| Featured
Resources |
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CDC reports influenza activity
remains high; please continue
vaccinating through the winter months to prevent flu from
spreading further |
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Visit IAC's updated website,
www.Give2MenACWY.org, to
enhance your efforts at
increasing rates of the
MenACWY booster and other
adolescent vaccines |
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IAC's comprehensive
Vaccinating Adults: A
Step-by-Step Guide is
available for free download either by chapter or in its
entirety (142 pages) |
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| Journal Articles and Newsletters |
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Two new studies published in
Pediatrics confirm safety of
9-valent human papillomavirus
vaccine |
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Science Magazine publishes
article titled "This Italian
Scientist Has Become a
Celebrity by Fighting Vaccine
Skeptics" |
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The Lancet publishes article
titled "The Public Health
Crisis of Underimmunisation: A
Global Plan of Action" |
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WHO joins partners in a
year-long celebration of the
work of nurses and midwives |
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| Education and Training |
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Free, live webcast on
strengthening vaccine
confidence in pediatric
practice to be held January 16 with CE credit from University
at Albany School of Public
Health |
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Registration is open for the
Epidemiology & Prevention of
Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
("The Pink Book") course in
Indiana, April 14–15 |
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| Conferences and Meetings |
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Reminder: 49th National
Immunization Conference will
be held in Atlanta on May
19–21 |
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California Immunization
Coalition Summit scheduled for
June 9–10 in Sacramento;
abstract submissions due by
February 3 |
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AIRA 2020 National Meeting
scheduled on August 11–13 in
Portland; abstract submissions
due by March 1 |
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