More Combo Vaccines approved

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from Physician's First Watch

ACIP Offers Guidelines on Recently Approved Combination Vaccines for Children

 

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has issued recommendations on using two combination vaccines for children in MMWR. The FDA approved both vaccines in June.

 

DTaP-IPV (Kinrix) — a combined diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis and inactivated poliovirus vaccine — is indicated as the fifth dose of the DTaP series and fourth dose of the IPV series. Children aged 4 to 6 years are eligible for the new vaccine if they received DTaP (Infanrix) or DTaP-Hepatitis B-IPV (Pediarix) as the first three doses and DTaP (Infanrix) as the fourth dose.

 

DTaP-IPV/Hib (Pentacel) is a combined diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis, inactivated poliovirus, and Haemophilus influenzae type B conjugate vaccine. It's indicated as a four-dose series at ages 2, 4, 6, and 15 to 18 months.

 

 

JournalWatch summary:

http://firstwatch.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2008/626/3

 

CDC releases on the 2 combo vaccines:

 

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5739a4.htm

 

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5739a5.htm

[Pudgeo]

This makes me ill...

I recently took my 14 yr old daughter in for a physical and she is SUPER healthy(thank god one of my kids is) and the Dr was trying to talk me into a measles & chix pox booster and the cervical cancer vaccine...all I could say was NO WAY!

THe cervical cancer vaccine would probably GIVE her cancer in 30 years!

Sarah

[kim]

Just another concern about getting these things at an older age, but you won't hear this as their ramping up their vaccine campaign complete with scary visuals and movie stars/celebs urging parents to vaccinate (Amada Pete and others). Gosh, when my kids had those 105 fevers I was standing in emergency wondering what the movie stars would think about it, doesn't everyone?

 

From the 2nd link by the "vaccine expert" and co patent holder of rotavirus vaccine

 

Parents often take their cues from celebrities, not scientists

http://explorevaccines.wordpress.com/2008/...odern-epidemic/

 

The large outbreak of mumps in the spring of 2006 has led public health officials to re-evaluate this goal and to recognize that the transmission and epidemiology of mumps in highly vaccinated populations may be different than anticipated

 

And

 

College campuses with mumps outbreaks included ones with 77% to 97% of students having had 2 doses of a mumps vaccine. Diagnosing mumps proved to be problematic in vaccinated persons (ie, laboratory tests seemed to be insensitive and some apparent mumps cases had mild nonclassic illness). The outbreak demonstrated that mumps can sometimes transmit efficiently in highly vaccinated populations

 

http://www.idinchildren.com/200809/guested.asp

 

Commentary

The Immunization Alliance

Alliance working on a multi-pronged approach to recapture the public’s trust in immunization.

by Paul A. Offit, MD

Special to Infectious Diseases in Children

 

 

http://insidevaccines.com/wordpress/2008/0...th-by-diarrhea/

 

Drs H. Fred Clark, David I. Bernstein, Penelope H. Dennehy, Paul Offit, Michael Pichichero, John Treanor, and Richard L. Ward received funding for research or for clinical investigation from Merck & Co, Inc. Drs Clark and Offit are coholders of the patent on the human reassortant rotavirus vaccine.

And

 

This study was written to demonstrate how much money this vaccine will save our economy. Also from this study, I was served up a little nugget of heaven. At last, I’d found a cumulative incidence of deaths due to rotavirus among children.

 

Finally, about 20 deaths occur each year due to rotavirus diarrhea among children younger than 5 years,1, 6 for a cumulative incidence by age 5 years of 0.000005 (1 in 195000 children).

 

Armed with the knowledge that only about 20 children die per year due to rotavirus, I was off to investigate the vaccine itself.