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| All of us at the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) work tirelessly to ensure the accuracy of the information we make available. As part of this effort, we have created an errata page to serve as the central location for all important changes to items we have published in our periodicals, Needle Tips, Vaccinate Adults!, Vaccinate Women, as well as in IAC Express, our Internet news and announcement service, and on this website. |
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| Our procedure will be to publish in IAC Express notices of corrections to our publications and to present them chronologically on this "Errata Page." |
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| We welcome your eagle-eyed oversight of the content of our publications. If you believe you have found an error, please notify us as soon as possible so that we may evaluate the item immediately and determine the need for a formal erratum. On the errata page, you will find only serious corrections, for example, those that misrepresent fact and/or could result in clinical errors. Though we are also concerned about correcting administrative information such as contact names and phone numbers presented in our publications, these types of revisions will probably not appear on this page. Whether an error is big or small, we always want to know whenever you spot one. |
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| To ensure that everyone receives the most up-to-date information, we ask that you encourage your colleagues and anyone else who might receive IAC publications to subscribe to IAC Express. Once they have subscribed, they will begin to receive any notices of corrections to Coalition publications as soon as these changes are made available. |
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With your help, we will continue to provide you with the most accurate information possible.
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Deborah L. Wexler, MD
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| Needle
Tips, March 2008; Vaccinate Adults!, March 2008; and Vaccinate
Women, June 2008 |
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Posted August 3, 2008 |
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IAC was informed by a
careful reader that an incorrect answer was published in "Ask the Experts"
to a question concerning pre-exposure prophylaxis for travelers to protect
them from hepatitis A virus infection. CDC provided the correct answer. |
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| What are the new
recommendations for vaccination of travelers to protect them from
hepatitis A virus (HAV) infection? |
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| "The new recommendations (www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5641a3.htm)
state that (1) hepatitis A vaccine is recommended for healthy susceptible
persons ages 1 through 40 years who travel to or work in regions where
hepatitis A is endemic and (2) hepatitis A vaccine should be given as soon
as travel is considered, but it can be given any time prior to departure.
For optimal protection, persons older than age 40 years, immunocompromised
persons, and persons with diagnosed chronic liver disease or other chronic
medical conditions, if departure will take place within two weeks, should
also receive IG simultaneously with the first dose of hepatitis A vaccine
but at a different anatomic injection site. For travelers younger than age
1 year, IG alone is recommended because hepatitis A vaccine is not
licensed for use in this age group. Hepatitis A is endemic in all regions
except the United States, Western Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Canada,
and Japan." |
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Needle Tips
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Vaccinate Adults!
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Vaccinate Women
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IAC has received some questions asking for clarification of an "Ask the Experts" Q&A concerning a
dosing error in which an adult patient was mistakenly given a pediatric dose of
hepatitis A vaccine. |
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| "One of our staff gave a dose of pediatric hepatitis A vaccine to an adult
patient by mistake. How do we remedy this error?" |
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| "If less than a full age-appropriate dose of any vaccine is given, the dose
should not be counted. The person should be revaccinated with the appropriate
dose as soon as possible." |
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| Needle Tips, October 2007 |
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Posted
November 5, 2007 |
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IAC has
received some questions asking for clarification of an "Ask the Experts" Q&A, written
by CDC's Dr. William Atkinson and Dr. Andrew Kroger, about which children need
two doses of influenza vaccine the first year they receive the vaccine. |
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| QUESTION: |
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| "Which children need two doses of influenza vaccine this season?" |
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| "Children age eight years and younger who are receiving influenza vaccine (TIV
or LAIV) for the first time should receive two vaccine doses given with a
minimum interval of four weeks. If the child fails to get the second dose during
that season, he should be given two doses in the next influenza vaccination
season. If he fails to receive those two doses, he should only get one dose per
year from that point on." |
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| Needle Tips and Vaccinate Adults, May 2005 |
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Posted
June 30, 2005 |
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In the article
"Vaccine Highlights," IAC
inadvertently passed along misinformation about the amount the Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid
Services (CMS) reimburses physicians for administering influenza vaccinations. This information, which we picked up from a CMS
press release dated November 3, 2004, is somewhat
misleading. The correct information is that the AVERAGE payment for
administering injectable
influenza vaccine increased from $8 to $18. |
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| STATEMENT: |
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| "For example, payments for
administering injectable
influenza vaccine increased from $8 to $18." |
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| REVISED STATEMENT:: |
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| "For example, the average payment
for administering
injectable influenza vaccine increased from $8 to $18." |
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Posted
September 11, 2002 |
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| The article "Vaccines and Autism" by Paul A. Offit, MD, contained a one-word error. In the last
paragraph of page 7, in the section titled "Evidence that autism occurs in utero,"
the phrase "24 weeks" appeared twice. Both instances have been corrected to "24
days" on the web-based version of the article on the Immunization Action
Coalition's website. |
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| Needle Tips, Fall/Winter 1999-2000 |
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| In the fall/winter 1999-2000 issue of Needle Tips, there is incorrect information in the answer to an "Ask the Experts" question appearing under "General
Questions" on page 15. The answer provided by Dr. William Atkinson, medical epidemiologist at the National
Immunization Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was incorrect
about the components of the pentavalent vaccine for infants in use in Canada. Dr.
Atkinson reported that the combination vaccine used in Canada contains whole cell pertussis
vaccine when, in fact, it does not. The revised answer which follows should be substituted for the
original answer that appeared in Needle Tips. |
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| QUESTION: |
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| "I've heard there is a pentavalent vaccine for infants in use in Canada. When
will a pentavalent vaccine be available in the U.S.?" |
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| "The Canadian vaccine (PENTACEL distributed by Pasteur Mérieux
Connaught, Canada) is a combination of acellular pertussis, diphtheria, and tetanus toxoids, Hib and
inactivated polio vaccines. In the United States, trials of new combination vaccines are in
progress and some of these may be licensed in the future. SmithKline Beecham has
recently applied to the Food and Drug Administration for approval of a new DTaP-IPV-Hep B combination vaccine." |
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| The current pentavalent vaccine used for primary immunization of infants in all Canadian
provinces and territories is a combination of acellular pertussis, diphtheria and tetanus
toxoids, and Hib and inactivated polio vaccines (PENTACEL distributed by Pasteur Mérieux
Connaught, Canada). PENTACEL was licensed in May 1997 and first introduced into the infant vaccination
schedule by some jurisdictions in July 1997, and fully incorporated into the infant schedule by all
provinces and territories by April 1998. The pentavalent vaccine which contained whole cell
pertussis vaccine is no longer distributed in Canada. |
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| This page was reviewed on
August 7, 2008 |
Immunization Action Coalition