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Pneumococcal vaccine protects older adults from developing pneumococcal bacteremia but does not prevent community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), according to a new study from Group Health Cooperative in Seattle.
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When a rare and deadly infection suddenly appears out of time and place, todays clinician cannot exclude the possibility of bioterrorism. A case of plague (Yersinia pestis) had not been seen in New York City in more than a century. In November 2002, there appeared not one case, but two.
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Since plague (Yersinia pestis) was introduced into the United States in the San Francisco Bay area in 1900, there have been a total of 941 confirmed human cases recorded through the year 2000.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention temporarily should suspend its smallpox vaccination programs and conduct an evaluation and reassessment of the effort before vaccine is offered to larger groups of health care workers, a special panel of the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC, recommends.
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The Institute Medicine advised the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to pause its smallpox immunization efforts
to permit time for the following developments.
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More than 100 pregnant women have been exposed inadvertently to smallpox vaccine since immunization programs began in U.S. hospitals, the military, and clinical trials, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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The breakdown of pregnant women inadvertently vaccinated in smallpox immunization programs is as follows.
