CCIC & Vaccine News

A new law requiring students entering grades 7-12 to get a whooping cough booster shot takes effect July 1, but state health officials are urging parents to add it to their to-do list.

California teens need to be up to date on their whooping cough shots before starting classes next fall in order to be in compliance with a new law.

9. Vaccines & Autism

Colorado’s Latino Influenza Vaccination and Education (LIVE) Project has created two children’s videos about flu prevention featuring five Spanish-speaking characters known as the “Solecitos” or “Little Suns.”

Doctors seeing 'unprecedented levels' of those severely ill; 14 have died of H1N1

An experimental vaccine used to treat lung cancer is being called a "game changer" by doctors. Unlike most other vaccines, the lung cancer vaccine is used for treatment of the disease rather than prevention.

Photo: President Obama gets his flu shot

Two infants have been hospitalized with the flu, marking El Paso County’s first recorded hospitalizations of the 2010-11 flu season.

The planet's supplies of cholera vaccine are so tight that it will take a long time before vaccination can reach a sizable fraction of Haiti's 9 million people — not to mention the 10 million next door in the Dominican Republic.

Novavax, Inc. announced today that the company's Phase I clinical trial to evaluate a new vaccine candidate to prevent RSV infection has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is no longer on clinical hold.

HealthStats - State-by-State Immunization Coverage

Two states exempt their kids from vaccinations -- but pertussis is rampant in only one.

Study Finds That Few Girls Receive All 3 HPV Shots on Time, or at All

Even though shots can prevent flu and serious diseases such as shingles, pneumonia, hepatitis and cervical cancer, few grown-ups get them, CDC data show.

BOGOTA] Nicaragua is the first developing country to start immunising children with a new pneumonia vaccine this month (12 December), the same year the vaccine was released in the United States.

CSU students are urged to get free meningococcal inoculations

Rehydrating patients without antibiotics isn't working, experts say