Vaccination Protects Against Influenza.
US strength officials would like every American superannuated 6 months and older to get a flu vaccine, and on Thursday they produced statistics they deliberate should convince everyone to get vaccinated. "In the 2012-2013 flu season, vaccinations prevented at least 6,6 million cases of flu-associated illness. They also prevented some 3,2 million kith and kin from whereas their doctor and 79000 hospitalizations," Dr Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said during a c noontide press briefing. The benefits of vaccination seen in 2012-2013 were greater than the CDC had seen before and were attributable to the harshness of the season.
So "Last year was a relatively stiff season. Even with those hospitalizations prevented, there were still about 381000 flu-associated hospitalizations. This is higher than we have seen during many flu seasons". During the end flu season, there were some 31,8 million influenza-associated illnesses and 14,4 million doctors visits for flu, according a CDC communication in the Dec 13, 2013 exit of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Frieden said the best way to be protected from the flu is to be vaccinated.
Yet only 40 percent of Americans elderly 6 months and older had been vaccinated by early November. Flu across the boondocks is picking up and even greater activity is predicted in the coming weeks. Increased prevalence has been seen in the Southeast and in some states beyond that area. "We know that it will increase in the coming weeks and months, but we cannot augur where and when and how severe this year's flu season will be.
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Monday, 16 December 2019
Status Of Viral Influenza Activity This Season
Status Of Viral Influenza Activity This Season.
Although winter hasn't even arrived, the first off signs of flu occasion have, US health officials said Friday. In fact, Georgia is since a sharp increase in influenza cases, mostly centre of school-aged children, with the state calling it a regional outbreak. The Georgia cases may be an ancient sign of what's in store for the rest of the country once flu season really gets under practice in the winter, officials from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
But there's cracking news, too: the flu strains circulating so far seem to be a close match for this season's vaccine and next week has been designated by the CDC as National Influenza Vaccination Week. "Flu is coming," Dr Anne Schuchat, president of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during an afternoon hurry conference. "This lowering has begun like so many influenza seasons, with comparatively few flu viruses circulating through the end of November".
However, last season's H1N1 flu pandemic was very unique from what is usually seen and people shouldn't be complacent because flu hasn't roared back yet. Schuchat prominent that this year's flu vaccine is designed to fight the H1N1 pandemic strain, as well as strains H3N2 and influenza B.
In Georgia, influenza B is the heave that is being seen most right now. "The more than half of B viruses from Georgia are related to the B virus that is in our vaccine, so we expect the vaccine to be a palatable match against this B strain that is already causing quite a bit of disease". The vaccine is also a exemplary match for the other flu strains seen so far, including H1N1, H2N2 and the influenza B virus.
Schuchat believes that all Americans, exclude children under 6 months of age, should get a flu shot. "I strongly onward people to get vaccinated to make sure you're protected and to make guaranteed your children are protected too". Children under 9 years of age may need two doses of the vaccine to be protected.
Although winter hasn't even arrived, the first off signs of flu occasion have, US health officials said Friday. In fact, Georgia is since a sharp increase in influenza cases, mostly centre of school-aged children, with the state calling it a regional outbreak. The Georgia cases may be an ancient sign of what's in store for the rest of the country once flu season really gets under practice in the winter, officials from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
But there's cracking news, too: the flu strains circulating so far seem to be a close match for this season's vaccine and next week has been designated by the CDC as National Influenza Vaccination Week. "Flu is coming," Dr Anne Schuchat, president of CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said during an afternoon hurry conference. "This lowering has begun like so many influenza seasons, with comparatively few flu viruses circulating through the end of November".
However, last season's H1N1 flu pandemic was very unique from what is usually seen and people shouldn't be complacent because flu hasn't roared back yet. Schuchat prominent that this year's flu vaccine is designed to fight the H1N1 pandemic strain, as well as strains H3N2 and influenza B.
In Georgia, influenza B is the heave that is being seen most right now. "The more than half of B viruses from Georgia are related to the B virus that is in our vaccine, so we expect the vaccine to be a palatable match against this B strain that is already causing quite a bit of disease". The vaccine is also a exemplary match for the other flu strains seen so far, including H1N1, H2N2 and the influenza B virus.
Schuchat believes that all Americans, exclude children under 6 months of age, should get a flu shot. "I strongly onward people to get vaccinated to make sure you're protected and to make guaranteed your children are protected too". Children under 9 years of age may need two doses of the vaccine to be protected.
Thursday, 5 December 2019
Vaccination Rate Of US Adults Are Not Sufficient
Vaccination Rate Of US Adults Are Not Sufficient.
Although there have been ill-treatment increases in some mature vaccination rates, US health officials reported Wednesday that those rates are still not what they should be. "We needed vaccinations as infants and toddlers, but we also penury vaccinations as adults," Dr Susan J Rehm, medical steersman of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, said during an afternoon scoop conference Wednesday. Rehm noted that vaccination rates mid children are very good. "Because of that, we see only a fraction of the vaccine-preventable diseases we saw in the past, and a fraction of the deaths and sufferings from these diseases. But our advances will be uncompleted if we do not maintain our immunity as adults".
Speaking at the same account conference, Dr Melinda Wharton, deputy director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced some strange matter on adult immunization rates. The rate of coverage for the pneumococcal vaccine, which is recommend for adults over the period of 65 to prevent pneumonia, has remained at 65 percent since 2008. However, the percentage of vaccination among blacks and Hispanics is far below this.
The rate of adults being vaccinated with the newer vaccines is increasing. The man papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was first recommended in 2007 for babies women to prevent cervical cancer. By 2009, 17 percent of women superannuated 19 to 26 had received at least one shot - three are required. "This is up 6,2 percent, compared with 2008".
Another changed vaccine is the herpes zoster vaccine, which prevents shingles and is recommended for adults venerable 60 and over. Coverage with this vaccine is up a little from 2008, from 8 percent to 10 percent. One worthy adult vaccine is the hepatitis B vaccine, which can frustrate liver cancer. Coverage of this vaccine is now 41,8 percent among high-risk groups, up 6 percent from 2008.
A container in point for getting vaccinated is the ongoing pertussis outbreak in California. There is a children's vaccine for pertussis that also includes a booster for tetanus and diphtheria called Dtap. The full-grown idea is called TDap.
Although there have been ill-treatment increases in some mature vaccination rates, US health officials reported Wednesday that those rates are still not what they should be. "We needed vaccinations as infants and toddlers, but we also penury vaccinations as adults," Dr Susan J Rehm, medical steersman of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, said during an afternoon scoop conference Wednesday. Rehm noted that vaccination rates mid children are very good. "Because of that, we see only a fraction of the vaccine-preventable diseases we saw in the past, and a fraction of the deaths and sufferings from these diseases. But our advances will be uncompleted if we do not maintain our immunity as adults".
Speaking at the same account conference, Dr Melinda Wharton, deputy director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced some strange matter on adult immunization rates. The rate of coverage for the pneumococcal vaccine, which is recommend for adults over the period of 65 to prevent pneumonia, has remained at 65 percent since 2008. However, the percentage of vaccination among blacks and Hispanics is far below this.
The rate of adults being vaccinated with the newer vaccines is increasing. The man papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was first recommended in 2007 for babies women to prevent cervical cancer. By 2009, 17 percent of women superannuated 19 to 26 had received at least one shot - three are required. "This is up 6,2 percent, compared with 2008".
Another changed vaccine is the herpes zoster vaccine, which prevents shingles and is recommended for adults venerable 60 and over. Coverage with this vaccine is up a little from 2008, from 8 percent to 10 percent. One worthy adult vaccine is the hepatitis B vaccine, which can frustrate liver cancer. Coverage of this vaccine is now 41,8 percent among high-risk groups, up 6 percent from 2008.
A container in point for getting vaccinated is the ongoing pertussis outbreak in California. There is a children's vaccine for pertussis that also includes a booster for tetanus and diphtheria called Dtap. The full-grown idea is called TDap.
Saturday, 23 November 2019
Doctors Told About The New Flu
Doctors Told About The New Flu.
This year's flu mellow may be off to a somnolent start nationwide, but infection rates are spiking in the south-central United States, where five deaths have already been reported in Texas. And the controlling strain of flu so far has been H1N1 "swine" flu, which triggered the pandemic flu in 2009, federal salubriousness officials said. "That may change, but uprightness now most of the flu is H1N1," said Dr Michael Young, a medical catchpole with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's influenza division. "It's the same H1N1 we have been light of the past couple of years and that we really started to see in 2009 during the pandemic".
States reporting increasing levels of flu movement include Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Young eminent that H1N1 flu is different from other types of flu because it tends to strike younger adults harder than older adults. Flu is typically a bigger portent to people 65 and older and very junior children and people with chronic medical conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes. This year, because it's an H1N1 mature so far, we are seeing more infections in younger adults".
So "And some of these folks have underlying conditions that put them at peril for hospitalization or death. This may be surprising to some folks, because they forget the citizens that H1N1 hits". The good news is that this year's flu vaccine protects against the H1N1 flu. "For citizenry who aren't vaccinated yet, there's still time - they should go out and get their vaccine," he advised.
This year's flu mellow may be off to a somnolent start nationwide, but infection rates are spiking in the south-central United States, where five deaths have already been reported in Texas. And the controlling strain of flu so far has been H1N1 "swine" flu, which triggered the pandemic flu in 2009, federal salubriousness officials said. "That may change, but uprightness now most of the flu is H1N1," said Dr Michael Young, a medical catchpole with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's influenza division. "It's the same H1N1 we have been light of the past couple of years and that we really started to see in 2009 during the pandemic".
States reporting increasing levels of flu movement include Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Young eminent that H1N1 flu is different from other types of flu because it tends to strike younger adults harder than older adults. Flu is typically a bigger portent to people 65 and older and very junior children and people with chronic medical conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes. This year, because it's an H1N1 mature so far, we are seeing more infections in younger adults".
So "And some of these folks have underlying conditions that put them at peril for hospitalization or death. This may be surprising to some folks, because they forget the citizens that H1N1 hits". The good news is that this year's flu vaccine protects against the H1N1 flu. "For citizenry who aren't vaccinated yet, there's still time - they should go out and get their vaccine," he advised.
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Influenza Vaccine In The USA Is Not Enough
Influenza Vaccine In The USA Is Not Enough.
Sporadic shortages of both the flu vaccine and the flu healing Tamiflu are being reported, as this year's powerful flu period continues, according to a top US health official. "We have received reports that some consumers have found speckle shortages of the vaccine," Dr Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, said on her blog on the agency's website. Hamburg said that the instrumentality is "monitoring this picture and will update you at our website and at flu dot gov".
So far, more than 128 million doses of flu vaccine have been distributed, Hamburg said, but not all the doses have been administered to men and women yet. She said that subjects who already have the flu may also be experiencing local shortages of Tamiflu, a drug that can help treat influenza. "We do obviate intermittent, temporary shortages of the oral suspension form of Tamiflu - the transparent version often prescribed for children - for the remainder of the flu season.
However, FDA is working with the maker to increase supply," she said. Hamburg also noted that "FDA-approved instructions on the label contribute directions for pharmacists on how to compound a liquid form of Tamiflu from Tamiflu capsules". Flu mature typically peaks in January or February but can extend as late as May.
Sporadic shortages of both the flu vaccine and the flu healing Tamiflu are being reported, as this year's powerful flu period continues, according to a top US health official. "We have received reports that some consumers have found speckle shortages of the vaccine," Dr Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, said on her blog on the agency's website. Hamburg said that the instrumentality is "monitoring this picture and will update you at our website and at flu dot gov".
So far, more than 128 million doses of flu vaccine have been distributed, Hamburg said, but not all the doses have been administered to men and women yet. She said that subjects who already have the flu may also be experiencing local shortages of Tamiflu, a drug that can help treat influenza. "We do obviate intermittent, temporary shortages of the oral suspension form of Tamiflu - the transparent version often prescribed for children - for the remainder of the flu season.
However, FDA is working with the maker to increase supply," she said. Hamburg also noted that "FDA-approved instructions on the label contribute directions for pharmacists on how to compound a liquid form of Tamiflu from Tamiflu capsules". Flu mature typically peaks in January or February but can extend as late as May.
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