Loading ...CDC Releases 2009 H1N1 Vaccine Schedules
Children aged 6 months through 9 years should receive two doses of 2009 H1N1 vaccine roughly 4 weeks apart, the CDC announced in MMWR.
The report details the differing age-range approvals for the manufacturers:
- CSL’s vaccine is approved for use in people 18 years and older (one dose, IM);
- Novartis’, for ages 4 and up (one dose, IM, except for children under 10, who get two);
- Sanofi Pasteur’s, for ages above 6 months (one dose, IM, except for children under 10);
- MedImmune’s, for ages 2 to 49 (one dose, intranasally, except for children under 10).
The injectable formulations are adjuvant-free and contain inactivated virus; the intranasal formulation contains live attenuated virus and shouldn’t be administered to children under 2, adults over 49, pregnant women, people with medical conditions that put them at higher risk for flu complications, and children under 5 who’ve had a wheezing episode within a year. All the vaccines contain egg protein, and the article’s table provides details on those containing mercury.
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Manzini , Swaziland
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I’d like to know when Swaziland,Africa will receive the H1N1 vaccine?
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Las Vegas Nevada, USA
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To Journal Watch Editors/CDC:
Would you please clarify if MedImmune’s intranasal vaccine does or does not contain adjuvant properties?
Sincerely & Thank you,
Diane
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Los Angeles California, USA
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Los Angeles California, USA
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What’s difference between inactived and Live attenuateed virus in vaccine?
What’s difference between seonal & 2009 H1N1 vaccines?
Other
Grand Junction Colorado, USA
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I am a kidney transplant patient. My doctor is saying not to get the injectable vaccine because I may loose my new kidney.
Is this true??
Its been a year since my transplant.
If I get the H1N1 virus, what drugs can they give me?
Thank you.
Physician
FAIRFAX Virginia, USA
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By the time the vaccine will be fully available the virus will be gone or we all will be immune or dead!
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Physician
AlJouf , Saudi Arabia
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I would like to thank the CDC centre for its concern regarding this pandemic disease , actually many viral pandemic diseases are dilema for the whole world .however , the new vaccination for 2009 H1N1
I think is save like the seasonal infuenza vaccine ( and the most likely side effects like thethe seasonal infuenza vaccine , fever , soreness at the site of the injection ,,,,etc ).
but I notice the population still not trust this vaccination .
thans again
Dr.Ahmad AlHazmi ( dean College of Medicine AlJouF Universit , Saudi Arabia )
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Hudson , Canada
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Shortly,I will be a kidney donor to my identical twin (27 yrs. female) The recipient tested positive for H1N1 some 5 months ago at the time of her end stage Renal diagnosis. At that time, whilst in quarantine, she was treated with TamiFlu. She is presently undergoing H.D.
Should I as a donor, be vaccinated against the H1N1 influenza? Tentatively, the transplant should proceed within the next 3 months. In view of the recipients history, should she be vaccinated also.
Precise answers are difficult to come by from our caregivers.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Regards
Chris Wilkin
Hudson, Quebec, Canada
I am also a kidney transplant patient. I have been working as a high school director and I feel myself in a high risk group. Up to now my doctors haven’t informed me well. So what do you advice ?
Should I as a kidney transplant patient, be vaccinated against the H1N1 influenza?
I have never vaccinated the seasonal infuenza in my life.
It has been more than three years since my transplant.
If I get the H1N1 virus, what drugs can they give me?
Sincerely
Cenk ÇAKAR
Gölcük.KOCAELİ TURKEY