Public Health – Seattle and King County’s Dr. Jeff Duchin has been appointed to serve on the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
Vaccinations aren’t just for kids any more: there’s battery of adult vaccinations should be part of your health care routine.
Organizers will giveaway free backpacks to the first 200 students to participate in the clinic.
Washington state health officials are urging parents to use the next few weeks to make sure their children had all the immunizations they need to attend school.
A public-private initiative has restored full funding to a Washington state program that has for years purchased vaccine for the state’s children.
In its “Parent’s Guide to Kids’ Vaccines” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration addresses many questions parents have about the vaccines that are recommended for their children and provides a list of these vaccines, their purpose and common side effects.
Each year 50,000 Americans die from a vaccine-preventable infections, and almost all of them—95%—are adults. Influenza, for example, causes an average of 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. every year, but less than half of the adults for whom the vaccine is recommended get the shot. Pneunococcal infections, when can cause lung, blood [...]
Since last year there has been a substantial improvement in the number of adolescents and teens getting their vaccinations, but many are still not receiving all the shots recommended by health officials, a US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention survey has found.
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