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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Progress toward elimination of Haemophilus influenzae type b invasive disease among infants and children—United States, 1998-2000. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) 2002 51(RRll) 234-237. 

Most vaccines are administered in two- to four-shot series in order to elicit the best protection. Childhood and adult immunization schedules are revised frequently and published annually by the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. Current immunization schedules can be found at www.cdc.gov/nip/. The childhood schedule is published in January and the adult schedule in October of each year. Recommendations will be published throughout the year in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) as new vaccines are licensed or new information necessitates a change in previous recommendations. 

A variety of resources are available for pharmacists interested in beginning a pharmacy-based immunization practice. Some of the best resource people include state health officers county health clinic physicians state department of health vaccine coordinators, especially those that administer the CHIP or KidCare-like immunization programs and local, board-certified primary care and infectious disease physicians. There are also a number of excellent web sites (see Table 2). The primary and most reliable source for vaccine and immunization information is the CDC web site. Most reliable infor mation about vaccines and immunization on other web pages is based on information first published in the public domain by the CDC in their journal, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). For those interested in keeping tabs on up-to-the-minute vaccine and immunization changes and recommendations, one should access the CDC listserv. This service forwards all issues of MMWR... 

Hypersensitivity reactions (for more detail, see Chapter 8) were induced following vaccination with the human diploid cell vaccine (HDCV) for rabies. Booster vaccinations for people who previously experienced hypersensitivity reactions to HDCV were recommended to be administered cautiously based on Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR, 1999a). By the time of the report, HDCV had been administered to approximately... 

Hepatitis—United States, 2007, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Vol. 58, Surveillance Summaries (SS-3), May 22, 2009 available at http //www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/ss/ss5803.pdf (accessed September 3, 2009). 

CDC, Fatal Laboratory-Acquired Infection with an Attenuated Yersinia Pestis Strain - Chicago, Illinois, 2009, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), 60 ( 07) 201-205, February 25,... 

Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Dept, of Health and Human Services/ Public Health Service (1981). Outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa serotype 0 9 associated with a whirlpool. Centers for Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR),... 

Anonymous (2002) Multistate outbreaks of Salmonella serotype Poona infections associated with eating cantaloupe from Mexico - United States and Canada, 2000-2002 . MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, 51, 1044—1047. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports . 

MMWR. 1987. Epidemiologic notes and reports. Serum dioxin in Vietnam-era veterans—preliminary report. Atlanta, GA Centers for Disease Control, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 36 470-475. 

MMWR. 1988. Preliminary report 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo -p-dioxin exposure to humans - Seveso, Italy. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 37(48) 733-736. 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2006). Inhalation anthrax associated with dried animal hides—Pennsylvania and New York City, 2006. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 55(10), 280-282. 

Gessner BD and Middaugh JP (1995) Paralytic shellfish poisoning in Alaska A 20-year retrospective analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology 141 766-770. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (1991) Paralytic shellfish poisoning - Massachusetts and Alaska, 1990. MMWR 40 157-161. 

Key AAP, American Academy of Pediatrics ACIP, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention FDA, Food and Drug Administration MMWR, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report VFC, Vaccines For Children. 

APhA, American Pharmaceutical Association MMWR, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report VISI, The Vaccine Identification Standards Initiative NNII, National Network for Immunization Information. 

Medical Examiners, Coroners, and Biologic Terrorism A Guidebook for Surveillance and Case Management. MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 2004 53(RR-8) l-53. 

CammerP. 1982. Current trends follow-up on pentachlorophenol in log homes. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Transfer file. MMWR 31(13) 170-171. http //www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000238.htm. 

Clark F, Reed R. 1992. Chaparral-induced toxic hepatitis—California and Texas. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Transfer fde, MMWR 41(43) 812-814. 

Center for Disease Control, 2006. Youth risk behavior surveillance—United States, 2005. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, June 9. http //www.cdc.gov/ mmwr/PDF/SS/SS5505.pdf. 

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (1985) Leads from the MMWR phytophotodermatitis among grocery workers. 

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (1985) Phytopho- 158. todermatitis among grocery workers - Ohio. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 34 11-13... 

Yelin, E., Cistemas, M., Foreman, A., Pasta, D., Murphy, L., Helmick, C., 2007. National and state medical expenditures and lost earnings attributable to arthritis and other rheumatic conditions—United States, 2003. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 56,4. 

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