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Adolescents need a booster of serogroup C meningococcal vaccine to protect them and maintain population control of the disease
The serogroup C meningococcal immunisation programme was reviewed during 2012 by the Department of Health's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), and an adolescent booster has been recommended as a result of concerns over duration of immunity in the childhood population.1 During the 1990s, a clone of Neisseria meningitidis (sequence type 11; ST11) with a serogroup C polysaccharide capsule (repeating units of the sugar, α-2-9 N acetyl neuraminic acid) swept through the UK causing outbreaks of meningococcal disease in schools and universities, generating considerable media attention and anxiety for pa...
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - March 11, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pollard, A. J., Green, C., Sadarangani, M., Snape, M. D. Tags: Smoking and tobacco, Immunology (including allergy), Drugs: infectious diseases, Vaccination / immunisation, Adolescent health, Child health, Health education, Homicide, Health promotion, Smoking Leading article Source Type: research

Strategies to control pertussis in infants
The UK is currently in the midst of a large outbreak of pertussis, with the highest morbidity and mortality occurring in young unimmunised infants. This review considers the potential strategies to optimise control of pertussis in infants, including vaccination of (1) adolescents, (2) close household contacts of newborn infants (cocooning), (3) newborn infants and (4) pregnant women. The paper discusses the evidence base for each of these strategies and considers the rationale for the recent introduction of a temporary vaccination programme for pregnant women in the UK in response to the ongoing outbreak.
Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - June 11, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Amirthalingam, G. Tags: Epidemiologic studies, Editor's choice, Immunology (including allergy), Drugs: infectious diseases, TB and other respiratory infections, Vaccination / immunisation, Pregnancy, Reproductive medicine, Adolescent health, Child health Review Source Type: research

Outbreak of methylisothiazolinone allergy targeting those aged ≥40 years
Source: Contact Dermatitis - June 19, 2013 Category: Dermatology Authors: John P. McFadden, Jack Mann, Jonathan M. L. White, Piu Banerjee, Ian R. White Tags: Contact Point Source Type: research

The unseen epidemic: Beauty lotions blamed for skin allergy surge
Preservatives used in Nivea skin lotion, some L’Oreal creams and Wet Ones cleaning wipes are being linked to an outbreak of acute allergic contact dermatitis, mostly in women over 40.
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 8, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

NIH scientists assess history, pandemic potential of H7 influenza viruses
(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The emergence of a novel H7N9 avian influenza virus in humans in China has raised questions about its pandemic potential as well as that of related influenza viruses. Scientists at NIAID address these questions by evaluating past outbreaks of H7 subtype influenza viruses among mammals and birds and comparing H7 viruses with other avian influenza viruses and strains.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - July 9, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

What a jerk: perils in the assessment of psychogenic movement disorders
In 2012, the upstate New York town of LeRoy became something of a neuropsychiatric battleground when it witnessed an outbreak of cases of sudden-onset tic-like behaviour in high-school age girls, many from a single school.1 The ‘Tourette's epidemic’, as it was dubbed by a fascinated world media, attracted different explanations: for every claim that this was ‘mass hysteria’ (ie, conversion disorder), there was an outraged counter-claim to the effect that such a diagnosis was missing a real organic cause of these tics and jerks, variously thought to be PANDAS (a rare and still controversial apparent ...
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - July 8, 2013 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Pollak, T. A. Tags: Genetics, Immunology (including allergy), Epilepsy and seizures, Movement disorders (other than Parkinsons), Neurological injury, Pain (neurology), Stroke, Trauma CNS / PNS, Child and adolescent psychiatry, Memory disorders (psychiatry), Somatoform disord Source Type: research

BU-Led Study: Flu Vaccine Is Safe During Pregnancy
BOSTON (CBS) — A new study has found “reassuring” evidence that H1N1 flu vaccine is safe during pregnancy. The national study was launched shortly after the H1N1 outbreak in 2009 and was led by Boston University, UC San Diego in collaboration with the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. The results will be published online in the journal, “Vaccine.” Despite the recommendation that all pregnant women should get a flu shot, it is estimated fewer than 50-percent of women actually do. Researchers say that’s because women are concerned about the effects of the shot on the devel...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - September 23, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kckatzman Tags: Health Healthwatch Local Syndicated Local Boston University CBS Boston Diane Stern Flu Vaccine WBZ Source Type: news

Reassuring findings for mothers who have influenza vaccine while pregnant
(University of California - San Diego) Researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Boston University, in collaboration with the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, have found evidence of the H1N1 influenza vaccine's safety during pregnancy. The national study, which was launched shortly after the H1N1 influenza outbreak of 2009, is summarized in two companion papers published online on Sept. 19 in the journal Vaccine.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - September 23, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Measles numbers multiply, myths linger
Measles. Many adults associate it with mild illness and relatively harmless red spots. Not quite, says Ronald Samuels, MD, MPH, associate medical director of Boston Children’s Primary Care Center. “Measles is different from chicken pox. A mild case of measles doesn’t exist.” That message takes on a new urgency in light of data released by the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), which tallied 159 reported cases of measles from January 1-August 24 of this year. The U.S. declared measles eliminated with no cases of continuous transmission for 12 months or longer in 2000. Since then, the number of annual...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 9, 2013 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Lisa Fratt Tags: All posts Diseases & conditions Vaccines measles MMR vaccination Source Type: news

Demodicidosis: an uncommon erythema after cranio-maxillofacial surgery
Abstract: Demodex mites are commonly found in the healthy population, but the pathogenesis of demodicidosis has still not been clarified, though it is usually found in cases of immune deficiency. A 45-year-old man presented with an unusual outbreak of erythema and swelling 6 months after resection and chemoradiotherapy for a squamous cell carcinoma of the anterior floor of the mouth. The cheek was biopsied and histological examination showed demodicidosis. In cases of erythema with a normal blood cell count and no history of allergy, particularly in patients with reduced immunity, demodicidosis should be considered as a di...
Source: The British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery - October 24, 2012 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Heinz-Theo Luebbers, Martin Lanzer, Klaus W. Graetz, Astrid L. Kruse Tags: Short Communications Source Type: research

Measles reported near Boston
Measles under a microscope Two cases of measles, the highly contagious virus, have been confirmed just outside of Boston, according Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Later reports traced the disease to a Framingham Trader Joe’s shopping market. And while most people in the United States have received vaccines against the disease, or got it and recovered as children making them immune, health officials are advising anyone displaying any symptoms to call a doctor. (It’s not recommended you go to a health care facility, out of fear you may infect others who have not been vaccinated.) Many adults associate me...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - February 25, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Lisa Fratt Tags: All posts infecious disease measles Parenting Source Type: news

Vitamin A may help boost immune system to fight tuberculosis
Tuberculosis is a major global problem, affecting 2 billion people worldwide and causing an estimated 2 million deaths annually. Western countries are once again tackling the disease, with recent outbreaks in Los Angeles and London.   The rise of drug-resistant TB, called a "ticking time bomb" by the World Health Organization, and the high cost of fighting the disease highlight the need for new approaches to treatment.   In findings published in the March 1 issue of the Journal of Immunology, UCLA researchers investigating the role of nutrients in helping the immune system fight against major infectio...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 25, 2014 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Recent Ebola outbreak highlights need for better global response
(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) In an invited perspective article on the Ebola outbreak under way in West Africa, Heinz Feldmann, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Institutes of Health emphasizes the need for scientists to make their data available to colleagues in real-time to improve the public health response to outbreaks. He cites past responses to influenza and SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) outbreaks as successful examples of global information sharing.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 7, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Ebola outbreak highlights global disparities in health-care resources
(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The outbreak of Ebola virus disease that has claimed more than 1,000 lives in West Africa this year poses a serious, ongoing threat to that region: the spread to capital cities and Nigeria -- Africa's most populous nation -- presents new challenges for healthcare professionals. The situation has garnered significant attention and fear around the world, but proven public health measures and sharpened clinical vigilance will contain the epidemic and thwart a global spread.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - August 13, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

High frequency of reactive arthritis in adults after Yersinia pseudotuberculosis O:1 outbreak caused by contaminated grated carrots
Conclusions In this outbreak, Y pseudotuberculosis was for the first time detected in both patient and food samples. ReA was more common than earlier reported in the outbreaks associated with this pathogen; the reason may be that the previous outbreaks have occurred among children. HLA-B27 frequency was higher than usually reported in single-source outbreaks of ReA.
Source: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases - September 4, 2014 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Vasala, M., Hallanvuo, S., Ruuska, P., Suokas, R., Siitonen, A., Hakala, M. Tags: Immunology (including allergy), Degenerative joint disease, Musculoskeletal syndromes, Epidemiology, Occupational and environmental medicine Clinical and epidemiological research Source Type: research