Issue
Number 463
June 7, 2004
CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE
- IAC's "Adults Only Vaccination: A Step-by-Step Guide" receives praise
- Update: IAC adds new information to its educational sheet on reliable
sources of immunization information
- CDC Health Update announces the end of the suspension of adoptions
from China
- CDC issues an update on measles among children adopted from China
- CDC reports that the United States has completed the first phase of
its plan for laboratory containment of poliovirus
- Gates Foundation grant helps UNICEF's childhood measles vaccination
campaign in Sudan
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ABBREVIATIONS: AAFP, American Academy of Family Physicians; AAP, American
Academy of Pediatrics; ACIP, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices;
CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; FDA, Food and Drug
Administration; IAC, Immunization Action Coalition; MMWR, Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report; NIP, National Immunization Program; VIS, Vaccine
Information Statement; VPD, vaccine-preventable disease; WHO, World Health
Organization.
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June 7, 2004
IAC'S "ADULTS ONLY VACCINATION: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE" RECEIVES PRAISE
Released in early May, IAC's "Adults Only Vaccination: A Step-by-Step Guide"
has received praise from many in the immunization community. The American
Medical Association described the guide as "indispensable" and publicized it
in two of its member listservs. The guide has also been termed "awesome" and
a "treasure chest."
During its development, the guide was thoroughly reviewed for technical
accuracy by immunization experts from CDC. In addition, the introductory
letter was signed by heads of four divisions at CDC, Department of Health
and Human Services (Women's Health), American Medical Association, National
Medical Association, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,
American College Health Association, and Planned Parenthood Federation of
America.
With a print run of 5,000, the guide has been mailed to 1,800 organizations
that placed advance orders. Twenty percent of remaining copies have been
sold. Following is a description of the guide and ordering information.
CONTENTS OF THE GUIDE AND ACCOMPANYING TOOLS
The guide
Though designed to help integrate immunizations into settings new to adult
vaccination, the 157-page guide is also valuable for use in settings
experienced in delivering vaccine to adult and pediatric patients. Divided
into seven chapters, the guide presents practical information on getting
started, setting up vaccination services, handling and storing vaccines,
deciding whom to vaccinate, administering vaccines, documenting vaccination
delivery, and financing vaccination services. In addition, the guide has two
appendices containing approximately 50 educational materials for health care
providers and patients, including standing orders for every adult vaccine.
IAC updates these materials as needed and provides a link on each page to
the most current version. This makes it easy for providers to stay up to
date.
To view the cover of the guide, go to:
http://www.immunize.org/guide/aovguide.jpg
Accompanying tools
Packaged as a kit, the guide comes with a pack of 25 adult immunization
record cards, two videos, and other useful clinic materials. The videos,
"How to Protect Your Vaccine Supply" (25 minutes long, produced by CDC in
2004) and "Immunization Techniques: Safe, Effective, Caring" (35 minutes
long, produced by California Department of Health Services in 2001), present
comprehensive, easy-to-follow information and make valuable viewing for
beginners and seasoned professionals alike.
For more information on the adult immunization record cards, go to:
https://www.immunize.org/adultizcards
For more information on the video "How to Protect Your Vaccine Supply," go
to:
https://www.immunize.org/vachandling
For more information on the video "Immunization Techniques:
Safe, Effective, Caring," go to:
https://www.immunize.org/iztech
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, PRICE, AND ORDERING METHODS
For additional information about the kit (including access to a
ready-to-copy [PDF] version of the guide), pricing (including
discounts for orders of more than nine kits), and ordering
methods, go to: http://www.immunize.org/guide
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June 7, 2004
UPDATE: IAC ADDS NEW INFORMATION TO ITS EDUCATIONAL SHEET ON
RELIABLE SOURCES OF IMMUNIZATION INFORMATION
In May, IAC updated its one-page information sheet "Reliable
Sources of Immunization Information: Where to go to find
answers!" Intended for health professionals to give to parents
and patients, the sheet lists website addresses, phone numbers,
books, and videos that provide dependable immunization
information.
The sheet now includes ordering information for two videos
produced by the Vaccine Education Center at The Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia, "Vaccines and Your Baby" and
"Vaccines: Separating Fact from Fear." It also has ordering
information for the most recent editions of two books for
parents, "Vaccines: What you should know" and "Vaccinating Your
Child: Questions and answers for the concerned parent." New
editions of both were published in 2003.
To access a ready-to-copy (PDF) version of IAC's updated
information sheet, go to:
http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4012.pdf
To access a web-text (HTML) version, go to:
http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/p4012.htm
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June 7, 2004
CDC HEALTH UPDATE ANNOUNCES THE END OF THE SUSPENSION OF
ADOPTIONS FROM CHINA
On June 3, CDC issued an official Health Update announcing it
has lifted suspension of adoptions from China. It is reprinted
below in its entirety.
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This is an official CDC Health Update
Distributed via Health Alert Network
June 03, 2004, 11:53 EDT (11:53 AM EDT)
CDC LIFTS SUSPENSION OF ADOPTIONS FROM CHINESE ORPHANAGE
Effective immediately, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has lifted the temporary suspension of
adoptions from the Zhuzhou Child Welfare Institute in Hunan
Province of China.
On April 16, 2004, CDC recommended a temporary suspension of
adoption proceedings for children from the Zhuzhou Child Welfare
Institute, which was experiencing an outbreak of measles. Last
week, Chinese health authorities reported that the recommended
measles vaccination campaign for all eligible children has been
completed and that no additional children from the orphanage had
developed measles for the past 21 days (one incubation period of
the disease).
As a result, CDC is now recommending that the temporary
suspension of adoptions from the affected orphanage in China be
ended and standard adoption procedures be resumed.
Additional information for prospective parents adopting children
internationally is available from CDC at
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/other/adoption.htm
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June 7, 2004
CDC ISSUES AN UPDATE ON MEASLES AMONG CHILDREN ADOPTED FROM
CHINA
CDC published "Update: Measles Among Children Adopted from
China" in the June 4 issue of MMWR. The update is reprinted
below in its entirety, excluding references.
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As of May 24, 2004, investigators have identified 10 confirmed
measles cases associated with adoptees who traveled to the
United States from China during March 2004. No cases have been
reported since April 18, and all the ill persons have recovered
without complications. CDC is now recommending that the
temporary suspension of adoptions from the affected orphanage in
China be ended and standard adoption procedures be resumed.
The 10 cases included nine imported cases among adopted children
aged 12-18 months who acquired their infections while still in
China and then traveled to three states (Maryland, New York, and
Washington) during March 26-27, and one importation-linked case
in a female student aged 19 years from California. The student
had close contact with an adoptee aged 18 months during a visit
to Washington when the child was infectious with measles. The
student had a nonmedical exemption and had not received measles-containing vaccine; upon her return to California, she was
quarantined in her off-campus home. She had onset of rash
14-16 days after contact with the adopted child, and measles was
diagnosed. No other cases linked to this outbreak have been
identified.
The cases in adoptees were associated with the Zhuzhou Child
Welfare Institute in Hunan Province. On May 24, Chinese
authorities reported that the last patient with measles at the
orphanage had rash onset on April 23, and that the recommended
vaccination campaign for all eligible children at the orphanage
had been completed. Because no cases of measles were reported
from the orphanage during the next 21 days (i.e., one incubation
period), the outbreak appears to have been controlled. As a
result, CDC is recommending that standard adoption procedures
for children from the orphanage be resumed.
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To access a web-text (HTML) version of the complete article, go
to: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5321a5.htm
To access a ready-to-copy (PDF) version of this issue of MMWR,
go to: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5321.pdf
To receive a FREE electronic subscription to MMWR (which
includes new ACIP statements), go to:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwrsubscribe.html
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June 7, 2004
CDC REPORTS THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS COMPLETED THE FIRST PHASE
OF ITS PLAN FOR LABORATORY CONTAINMENT OF POLIOVIRUS
CDC published "National Laboratory Inventory for Global
Poliovirus Containment--United States, November 2003" in the
June 4 issue of MMWR. A summary made available to the press is
reprinted below in its entirety.
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The United States has successfully completed the first phase of
a plan for the laboratory containment of poliovirus following
its eradication.
Before the world can be certified as free of polio, it is
necessary for countries to identify sources of material that may
contain poliovirus and either destroy or properly contain them.
The first phase of this process is to create an inventory of
laboratories that have stored poliovirus-containing materials.
The United States has completed such an inventory. Surveys were
sent to institutions and laboratories representing 105,356
individual laboratories. From the survey responses,
180 laboratories were identified that had wild poliovirus-containing materials. These laboratories comprise the final
inventory of institutions and laboratories that would be kept
informed of eradication progress and appropriate containment
procedures to minimize the risk for reintroducing wild
poliovirus from laboratories to communities.
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To access a web-text (HTML) version of the complete article, go
to: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5321a4.htm
To access a ready-to-copy (PDF) version of this issue of MMWR,
go to: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5321.pdf
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June 7, 2004
GATES FOUNDATION GRANT HELPS UNICEF'S CHILDHOOD MEASLES
VACCINATION CAMPAIGN IN SUDAN
On May 25, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF issued a press release
announcing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided a
$500,000 grant to kick-start a childhood measles immunization
campaign in the Dafur region of Sudan. Planned for early June,
the 10-day campaign will immunize all children in the region
under age 15. The campaign is a joint project of UNICEF, WHO,
and the Sudanese government.
To access the complete press release, go to:
http://www.unicefusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=duLRI8O0H&b=25933 Click
on Measles Drive in Dafur in the What's New column at the right
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