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Report underscores importance of early flu vaccination for children
Flu-associated medical visits and hospitalizations per 100,000 population in 2022-23 were higher among children under age 5 than for older children, but were higher for older children than for any season since 2016-17, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Oct. 12.
Chair File: Protecting Each Other and Keeping Our Communities Healthy
The AHA has excellent resources to help hospital and health system teams encourage patients and people in their communities to get vaccinated against the flu, COVID-19 and RSV.
AHA launches annual United Against the Flu campaign; enroll as a 2023-24 partner
The AHA Sept. 25 launched its 2023-24 United Against the Flu campaign to help hospitals and health systems encourage their communities to get vaccinated for the current flu season.
Early data on vaccine effectiveness promising as U.S. flu season approaches
This season’s flu vaccines for the Southern Hemisphere have reduced the risk of being hospitalized for flu by 52%, based on mid-season data from five countries, suggesting the U.S. vaccines could provide similar protection if similar viruses continue to predominate, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
Clinicians alerted to fatal bacterial infection associated with warm coastal waters
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alerted clinicians, laboratories and public health departments to recent fatal infections from Vibrio vulnificus bacteria through open-wound contact with warm coastal waters or raw or undercooked shellfish. The alert includes guidance for managing these infections.
FDA greenlights first vaccine for RSV prevention in infants via active gestational immunization
The Food and Drug Administration announced its approval of Pfizer’s Abrysvo (Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine), the first vaccine approved for use in pregnant individuals to prevent lower respiratory tract disease and severe LRTD caused by respiratory syncytial virus in infants from birth through six months of age.
Chair File: Encouraging Immunization to Keep Our Communities Healthy
Vaccines are powerful weapons against most diseases. Nearly a dozen serious diseases —including polio, smallpox and whooping cough — have been eradicated because of vaccines. That’s important to remember as we observe National Immunization Awareness Month in August.
New AHA resource highlights 4 strategies hospitals can deploy for infection reduction
AHA this week released a resource on strategies and tactics that hospitals and health systems can adopt to prevent and control health care-associated infections.
CDC alerts clinicians to first locally acquired malaria cases since 2003
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating four locally acquired malaria cases in Florida and one in Texas, the first locally acquired U.S. cases since 2003.
AHA podcast: Getting to Near Zero with Infection Prevention
Waleed Javaid, M.D., director of infection prevention and control at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, shares successful strategies for eliminating healthcare-associated infections.