National Immunization Program

For additional information about vaccines, vaccine supply, and contraindications for immunization, please visit the National Immunization Program Web site at www.cdc.gov/nip or call the National Immunization Hotline at (800) 232-2522 (English) or (800) 232-0233 (Spanish). 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Immunization Program http //www. c dc. go v/ n i p /... 

Clinical immunization safety assessment centers The National Immunization Program of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA, USA, is trying to set up a network of Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment Centers (CISA). Based on standardized clinical evaluation protocols the centers will assist health care providers in evaluating patients who may have had an adverse reaction after immunization. Furthermore, the centers will evaluate newly hypothesized syndromes or events identified through the routine VAERS (28). 

CDC. National Immunization program. Diabetes and vaccines. Questions and answers. http //www.cdc.gov/nip/vac-safe/concerns/diabetes/q a.htm, 10/05/2003. 

Anthrax. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Immunization Program. Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Illnesses. Anthrax, Chapter 20 307-322. The Pink Book. Updated Eighth Edition, 2005. http //www.cdc.gov/nip/publications/ pink/anthrax.pdf (last accessed 4/07/07)... 

Documentation of vaccination is critical to an immunization service. In many cases, reimbursement is not obtained without proper documentation. However, with a large portion of immunizations paid for in cash and the need to know which patient received which vaccination in case of a recall, there are some documentation issues that must be addressed. The use of software, either specifically designed for vaccines or general patient management, is available from several sources. Free software is available from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention s (CDC s) National Immunization Program (www.cdc.gov).If patient profile software is used to track immunizations, it is critical for an easily accessible, permanent record to be established for im-... 

National Immunization Program Center for Disease Control and Prevention s National Center for Infectious Diseases Viral Hepatitis Immunization Action Coalition Allied Vaccine Group National Coalition for Adult Immunization... 

Walter W. Williams National Immunizations Program, Respiratory Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia... 

The adamantane moiety is of medicinal chemical interest because of its inertness, compactness relative to lipid solubilizing character, and symmetry. Considerable interest, therefore, was engendered by the finding that amantadine (78) was active for the chemoprophylaxis of influenza A in man. There are not many useful chemotherapeutic agents available for the treatment of communicable viral infections, so this finding led to considerable molecular manipulation. The recent abrupt end of the National Influenza Immunization program of 1976 prompted a new look at the nonvaccine means for prophylaxis or treatment of respiratory tract infections due to influenza A, especially in that the well-known antigenic shift or drift of the virus obviates usefulness of the vaccine but not amantadine. 

After a suspected case of the 1918 Spanish flu vims (which, in a global pandemic during World War I, affected half the world s population and killed almost 25 million people in 18 months) was identified in 1976, Congress passed the National Swine Flu Immunization Program, releasing manufacturers from the liability, so that a flu vaccine... 

The provision of comprehensive public health services is critical to the nation s health and well-being, and to homeland security and defense. Directing mass immunization programs, assessing the immunization needs of school-aged children, identifying infectious disease threats and delivering treatment are public health... 

There are other national surveillance programs on adverse events after immunization, for example in Denmark, Germany, Sweden, the UK, Hungary developing countries such as India (SEDA-17, 363) and Brazil (SEDA-16, 367) have also aheady started to collect data on severe adverse events. 

Because immunotoxicity exists in a continuum, it is important to measure xenobiotic-induced changes in immune function in both directions. By and large, more effort has been invested in the validation of studies to address the immunosuppressive part of the continuum. However, recent validation studies have been conducted to address the sensitizing potential of chemicals, including a major effort by the National Toxicology Program. 

The National Childhood Immunization Program has proven to he one of the most successful health promotion practices in medicine.The production of disease-specific vaccines has been lauded as one of the second millennium s greatest accomplishments.In spite of this, however, more than 20% of U.S. two-year-olds remain susceptible to preventable illness by not receiving primary... 

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