Flu / Pandemic News

This report updates the 2018–19 recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) regarding the use of seasonal influenza vaccines in the United States (MMWR Recomm Rep [...]

The World Health Organization recommends vaccination of health workers (HWs) against influenza, but low uptake is intransigent. We conducted a Rapid Evidence Appraisal on: the risk of influenza [...]

WHO has developed an introduction manual for national immunization programme managers and policy-makers to support the introduction of health worker influenza immunization. The health worker [...]

When an outbreak hits, how do we immediately get a Ministry of Health representative, an animal health specialist, a communications expert and a laboratory sample transporter on the same [...]

The objective of this study was to determine whether any association exists between exposure to 2009 pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) influenza vaccination during pregnancy and negative health outcomes in [...]

Indonesia, Iraq and South Africa now rank among the ten countries with the highest number of under-immunized children worldwide, even though these countries are richer than many of their [...]

Alan Hinman, MD, MPH, Consulting Advisor at The Task Force’s Center for Vaccine Equity and part of the PIVI Strategic Advisory Group recently received the prestigious Dr. Charles Mérieux Award [...]

WHO lists a Global Influenza Pandemic as one of ten important health issues that will demand attention from WHO and health partners in 2019.

Charlie Hinderliter wasn’t opposed to the flu shot. He didn’t have a problem with vaccinations. He was one of about 53 percent of Americans who just don’t get one. “I figured [the flu] was [...]

“One hundred years ago, death came with astonishing speed and horrifying agony. Some influenza patients admitted to a Boston hospital in the morning of October 1918 would be dead by the [...]