By: Julie Steenhuysen 27 October 2010 (Reuters) – A panel of federal vaccine experts narrowly voted to add a booster dose of a meningitis vaccine to teens at age 16.The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 6-5 on Wednesday to add a booster dose of the vaccine at age 16 to address waning immunity […]
Meningococcal Vaccine Booster: New Recommendations
By: Paul A. Offit, MD 23 November 2010 HI, my name if Paul Offit and I’m talking to you today from the Jackson Education Center here at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, also from the Division of Infectious Disease here at Children’s. Today I thought we could talk about the conjugate meningococcal vaccine. In 2005, […]
