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Effect of maternal immunisation with multivalent vaccines containing inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) on infant IPV immune response: A phase 4, multi-centre randomised trial
Vaccine. 2023 Jan 21:S0264-410X(23)00057-9. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.01.035. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTMultivalent diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis and inactivated poliovirus vaccine (DTaP/IPV) has been offered to pregnant women in the United Kingdom since 2012. To assess the impact of maternal DTaP/IPV immunisation on the infant immune response to IPV, we measured poliovirus-specific neutralising antibodies at 2, 5 and 13 months of age in a randomised, phase 4 study of Repevax or Boostrix/IPV in pregnancy and in a non-randomised group born to women not given DTaP/IPV in pregnancy. Infants whose mothers rece...
Source: Vaccine - January 23, 2023 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Nicholas C Grassly Nick Andrews Gillian Cooper Laura Stephens Pauline Waight Christine E Jones Paul T Heath Anna Calvert Jo Southern Javier Martin Elizabeth Miller Source Type: research

News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.                                                     Michel de MontaigneBy Jan LundiusSTOCKHOLM, Jul 13 2022 (IPS) During the beginning of the pandemic, people wanted to learn more about COVID-19. Enclosed in their homes they watched with fear and fascination how the pandemic swept over the world, while comparing ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 13, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jan Lundius Tags: Armed Conflicts COVID-19 Global Headlines Health Humanitarian Emergencies TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news

Women's views and experiences of accessing pertussis vaccination in pregnancy and infant vaccinations during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-methods study in the UK
CONCLUSION: During the ongoing and future pandemics, healthcare services should prioritise equitable access to routine vaccinations, including tailoring services for ethnic-minority families who experience greater barriers to vaccination.PMID:35811204 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.06.076
Source: Vaccine - July 10, 2022 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Helen Skirrow Sara Barnett Sadie Bell Sandra Mounier-Jack Beate Kampmann Beth Holder Source Type: research

Decay of anti-Bordetella pertussis antibodies in women of childbearing age following COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical measures
DISCUSSION: B. pertussis infections should be closely monitored during the relaxing of mitigation measures for COVID-19.PMID:35599039 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.04.086
Source: Vaccine - May 22, 2022 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Frederic Reicherz Liam Golding Pascal M Lavoie Bahaa Abu-Raya Source Type: research

Retrospective cohort study investigating extent of pertussis transmission during a boarding school outbreak, England, December 2017 to June 2018
Euro Surveill. 2021 Jul;26(26). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.26.1900736.ABSTRACTOn 1 May 2018, a pertussis outbreak was declared and widespread vaccination recommended at an all-female secondary boarding school in southern England. We conducted a retrospective cohort study to determine the extent of pertussis transmission and identify risk factors in this semi-closed population. Of 504 students and staff assessed before post-exposure vaccination, 48% (n = 240) had evidence of pertussis. A sub-analysis of 409 students found that both residential dormitory (p = 0.05) and school year (p = 0.03) were associated with pertu...
Source: Euro Surveill - July 2, 2021 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Matt Edmunds Rachel Mearkle Jennifer Folliard Charlotte Anderson Sooria Balasegaram Nastassya Chandra Clare Sawyer Norman K Fry Sonia Ribeiro Gemma Palmer Michael Morgan Gill Underhill Nusreen Ahmad Simon Friar Andre Charlett David Litt Colin S Brown Gaya Source Type: research

Infant pertussis and maternal immunity: The curious case of Canada
CONCLUSIONS: Widespread pertussis outbreaks in children may reduce the risk of pertussis in infants when those children become parents. Further research is needed to determine the mechanism. As birth cohorts that experienced outbreaks grow past childbearing age, pertussis burden in infants in Canada may increase, following trends observed in England and Wales.PMID:33750589 | DOI:10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.02.050
Source: Vaccine - March 22, 2021 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Natasha S Crowcroft Shelly Bolotin Ye Li Helen Campbell Gayatri Amirthalingam Source Type: research

‘They’re Chipping Away.’ Inside the Grassroots Effort to Fight Mandatory Vaccines
Christina Hildebrand went down a rabbit hole and emerged at the statehouse in Sacramento. That’s how she describes it–going down a rabbit hole–and in her case it happened 14 years ago, when she was pregnant with her first child. In a world filled with chemicals and toxins, processed foods and GMOs, she decided her baby would be brought up as naturally and chemical-free as possible. It was when she was researching how best to achieve that goal that she bumped into vaccines. That was a bad time to begin thinking about such things. The fraudulent 1998 paper by British physician Andrew Wakefield ostensibly li...
Source: TIME: Health - June 13, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger/Sacramento Tags: Uncategorized vaccines Source Type: news