Vaccination

Scientists at King's have demonstrated the ability to deliver a dried live vaccine to the skin without a traditional needle, and shown for the first time that this technique is powerful enough to enable specialised immune cells in the skin to kick-start the immunising properties of the vaccine. Dr Linda Klavinskis from the Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology at King's explains the research behind the new technique and its wider potential. Read more about this technique on the King's College London website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/newsevents/news/newsrecords/2013/02-Feb/Injection-free-vaccination-technique.aspx.  

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Aetiology Elderly (>65yrs) Vaccinations (in children with  condition affecting face, palms and soles)  NSAIDs, furosemide, antibiotics UV radiation / x-rays   Pathophysiology  

 

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Objectives To predict the number of selected outcomes temporally associated but not caused by vaccination, to aid causality assessment of adverse events arising after mass immunisation in a paediatric population.  

Objective To examine the risk of neurological and autoimmune disorders of special interest in people vaccinated against pandemic influenza A (H1N1) with Pandemrix (GlaxoSmithKline, Middlesex, UK) compared with unvaccinated people over 8-10 months.  

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Among medical interventions to improve human health, vaccination has been and remains one of the most important.1 Given the huge number of deaths from influenza pandemics in recent history, the ability to rapidly develop effective vaccines for new strains of influenza is particularly critical. Making and testing a new influenza vaccine that can be administered to the public takes six months or less.2 For example, the pandemic A/H1N1 2009 influenza strain was first identified in April of 2009; four vaccines were approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in September. After the approval of a vaccine, however, important questions remain regarding dosage, effectiveness, and safety. These questions are best answered by randomized clinical trials, and getting complete results from these trials to policy makers, clinicians, and the general public in a timely manner is essential.  

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) will no longer use vaccination programs as a cover for its spy operations, a White House official has told US public health school deans, who nearly a year ago wrote to President Barack Obama protesting against the practice.  

WHO and UNICEF appreciate the commitment by the United States Government to stop making operational use of immunization campaigns.  

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The head of an international group campaigning for vaccination against common diseases suggests the current Ebola outbreak triggers fear because many in the west have forgotten what it is like to face something that's untreatable.  

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Disneyland disease outbreak spreads through California, prompting renewed criticism of vaccination opponents.  

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Kremer and Van de Perre highlight important concerns.1 2 HIV incidence was increased mainly in men in the long term follow-up (3.5 years after vaccination) of the Phambili HIV vaccine trial, which used an adenovirus type 5 vectored DNA vaccine.3 The candidate Ebola adenovirus vectored vaccine is of a different adenovirus subtype (type 3).4 5 However, the postulated mechanism of …  

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Progress towards global vaccination targets for 2015 is far off track with 1 in 5 children still missing out on routine life-saving immunizations that could avert 1.5 million deaths each year from preventable diseases. In the lead-up to World Immunization Week 2015 (24 -30 April), the WHO is calling for renewed efforts to get progress back on course.  

A media campaign to encourage the uptake of childhood vaccination in India was launched this week, with the aim of 90% of children receiving full vaccination by 2020.