Meningitis Angels Solicit Public Support for Infant Meningitis Vaccines
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In recognition of August as National Immunization Awareness Month, the patient advocacy group, Meningitis Angels, is launching an online petition to provide people across the country the opportunity to urge the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to add life-saving infant meningitis vaccines to the routine infant immunization schedule.Last month, the CDC concluded a four-city public meeting tour to gather input on whether or not it should add FDA-approved meningitis vaccines to the existing recommended immunization schedule. While nearly 70 percent (69.75%) of all the regional hearing participants voted in favor of adding meningococcal vaccine to the schedule for infants and recommended that all children be vaccinated, Meningitis Angels Founder realized an online petition would provide a great opportunity for those unable to attend the CDC meetings to weigh in on the discussion.
"Public input in this discussion is absolutely necessary," said Milley. "But with meetings in only four cities, there is a huge contingent of the public who were not able to voice their concern and support for these vaccines. We're launching a petition at www.protectinfantsnow.org so that concerned citizens nationwide, especially parents, can have their opinion heard and ensure that children's lives are saved."
Infants suffer from 35 percent of all cases of meningococcal disease in the U.S. While the FDA has already approved one infant meningitis vaccine and is expected to approve others in the coming months, the CDC is undecided about whether to add these life-saving vaccines to the routine infant immunization schedule. Adding safe and effective vaccines to the routine recommended immunization schedule would ensure that the federal government and insurance companies will cover shots for all families, including low-income and traditionally underserved communities, as well as assist state health departments educate the public on the disease and prevention. Currently, the federal Vaccines for Children Program pays for approximately 60 percent of all shots given to children in the U.S.
"The public also needs to know that a routine recommendation does not mean a mandate," added Milley. "It means that all families will have access to that vaccine, whether they are insured or not, and that doctors will gain knowledge about and access to that vaccine.
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Adding safe and effective vaccines to the routine recommended immunization schedule would ensure that the federal government and insurance companies will cover shots for all families, including low-income and traditionally underserved communities,
Compelled by any number of factors — their religious beliefs, medical evidence that their children can't handle immunizations, concerns that the vaccines will cause more harm than good — they opt out of the recommended immunization schedule.
A broad coalition of Colorado health advocates and community activists are pushing the Centers for Disease Control to add infant meningitis vaccinations to the infant immunization schedule. At a press conference held recently in Denver, members of the
DENVER -- Supporters of a vaccine for meningitis are urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to add it to the infant immunization schedule. The Food and Drug Administration has already approved one vaccine and is expected to approve
The science on the safety of the current vaccination schedule vaccines is "exhaustive," agrees Dr. Julie Boom, director of infant and childhood immunization for the Center for Vaccine Awareness and Research at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.
The Canarian health counseling modifies the infant vaccine schedule
The Ministry of health, on a proposal from the Directorate General of public health, has adopted a modification of Canary infant vaccine schedule to include new vaccines more immunogenic and less reactogénicas and advance the first triple viral vaccine dose at 12 months of age.
The emergence of new vaccines against different diseases with other more and more immunogenic and less reactogénicas, and the change in the epidemiological behaviour of some diseases against which vaccines currently apply identified the need to change the calendar vaccine child existing in our autonomous region, as reported in a press release the Ministry of health.
As reported in a press release by Health Ministry, the statement in the last months of measles outbreaks in our country have affected susceptible population (among which is the population less than 15 months of age) determines the need to advance the first dose of vaccine Triple virus (measles, rubella and mumps) for the twelve months of age instead of 15 months after the vaccination calendar above.
Also, and with the intention of minimizing side effects from the implementation of the DTaP (diphtheria, tetanus and acellular whooping cough) 6 years has changed the vaccine by a less antigenic burden (DTaP) and lesser reactogenicity, to manage in that same age (6 years).
The Directorate-General for public health of the Canary Islands health service distributed in September explanatory brochures, posters and calendars of pocket on all the Islands health centres, in order to know in detail the changes in the vaccine schedule in the order of July 7, 2011.
The order of 13 September 1993 that provides the program of vaccines for the Canary, together with the order of 8 October 1993, which amends the previous order of 17 December 2007 amending the vaccine schedule of the autonomous community of Canary, and the order of 17 May 2011 approval the systematic adult vaccine schedule set the current regulatory framework of the vaccinator activity in the Canary Islands.
Article 4 of the first order mentioned in point 2, determines diseases subject to systematic application of vaccines other than referred to in point 1, shall be those of the General Directorate of public health determined according to the different epidemiological circumstances and available resources.
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