JCVI recommends chickenpox vaccine for all children
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended that a universal chickenpox vaccination programme is included in the routine childhood schedule. The programme would use the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) vaccine and would include two doses at 12 and 18 months of age. This recommendation is based on evidence from... Read moreThe post JCVI recommends chickenpox vaccine for all children appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - November 15, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Ford Tags: Clinical Latest news Paediatrics Vaccinations Vaccinations and infections Source Type: news
Toddlers should have chickenpox jab, say experts
The chickenpox vaccine should be available on the NHS for young children, scientific advisers have recommended. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Chickenpox vaccine should be given to children on NHS, experts say
Including jab as part of routine immunisations would have ‘really positive impact on health of young children’, says JCVIExplainer: Why is the UK proposing chickenpox vaccines and do we really need them?A vaccine to protect against chickenpox should become a routine childhood jab in the UK, government advisers have said, adding that the move would not only reduce the number of children who become sick from the virus, but also cut the number of serious cases that can become fatal.At present, the jab, known as the varicella vaccination after the varicella zoster virus that causes the disease, is only available on the NHS...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science corespondent Tags: Chickenpox Society NHS UK news Health Source Type: news
Is a vaccine as effective as getting chickenpox? Does it have any risks? And could NHS scheme to jab babies backfire? Your questions answered
Experts said a chickenpox vaccine rollout in the UK would make the contagious infection 'a problem of the past'. Here, MailOnline sets out all you need to know. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Babies as young as 12 MONTHS should be vaccinated against chickenpox on the NHS, health bosses rule in major new guidance that could see 7million children under-11 also jabbed
Data suggests the jab, which would be offered in the UK in two doses at 12 and 18 months, would slash chickenpox transmission and prevent most severe cases in children. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UK experts recommend chickenpox shot for kids for the first time, decades after other countries
An expert scientific committee advising the British government recommended for the first time Tuesday that children should be immunized with the chickenpox vaccine — decades after the shots were made widely available in other countries, including the U... (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Give toddlers chickenpox jab, advisers tell NHS
All UK children should be protected against the virus at 12 and 18 months of age, advisers tell NHS. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Chickenpox jab should be added to UK child vaccine programme, says JCVI
GPs could vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children against chickenpox after expert government advisers backed adding the jab to the UK's child vaccination programme. (Source: GP Online News)
Source: GP Online News - November 14, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Clinical News Source Type: news
Chickenpox vaccine to be added to childhood vaccine programme, say health experts
Health experts have recommended a vaccine against varicella, commonly known as chickenpox, should be added to the UK's routine childhood immunisation programme. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Risk of disease spread soars in Gaza as health facilities, water and sanitation systems disrupted
8 November 2023 – As deaths and injuries in Gaza continue to rise due to intensified hostilities, intense overcrowding and disrupted health, water, and sanitation systems pose an added danger: the rapid spread of infectious diseases. Some worrying trends are already emerging.
Lack of fuel has led to the shutting down of desalination plants, significantly increasing the risk of bacterial infections like diarrhea spreading as people consume contaminated water. Lack of fuel has also disrupted all solid waste collection, creating an environment conducive to the rapid and widespread proliferation of insects, rodents th...
Source: WHO EMRO News - November 8, 2023 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
Why Do Infants Seem to Avoid Severe COVID-19?
With COVID-19 rates rising around the country, and an updated vaccine now available, researchers are still trying to understand how immunity to COVID-19 works, and the best ways to build and sustain it.
One of the possibly richest areas of research might be infections among the very young, who tend to be spared from more serious COVID-19 disease. Hospitalization rates for infants four years old or under dropped to under 1 per 100,000 earlier this year, and have recently inched up slightly to 2 per 100,000 in the middle of September, compared to rates for people over 65 years old, which hit a low of 6 per 100,000 earlier...
Source: TIME: Health - October 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
How COVID-19 Changed Life for People Terrified of Needles
From the moment COVID-19 reached pandemic designation, Joe McDougall had nightmares. Not, like others, about the potential path of the virus, but about the seemingly inevitable moment at which he’d be asked—or held down and forced—to receive a vaccine. McDougall, now 39, is terrified of needles and a global pandemic meant that for the first time since adolescence, he might not be able to avoid them.
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Of all of the challenges facing mass COVID-19 vaccination, fear of needles is one of the least acknowledged by public-health campaigns. Even what we know ...
Source: TIME: Health - October 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
New strain of highly contagious chickenpox virus found for the first time in India
Surveillance for monkeypox in India has revealed a new variant of varicella-zoster virus. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - September 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
I was told the small bump on my face was a chickenpox scar. Years later my face erupted in hundreds of TUMORS
A 52-year-old Idaho woman with 200 benign tumors, mainly on her face, has faced ridicule for unknowingly passing her rare genetic condition, affecting one in 2,500 people, to her daughters. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
