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Influenza Season Is Definitely Here as the First Deaths Are Being Reported

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on October 25, 2019December 7, 2019

States are beginning to report influenza-associated deaths, marking the beginning of the influenza season in the United States for 2019-2020.

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A Quick Story About Measles

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on August 26, 2019December 7, 2019

The same law that antivaxxers today use to justify their fear of government mandates on vaccination victimized the mother of a victim of measles back in the 1920s. History goes full circle?

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Measles Cases Top 1,000 in the First 5 Months of 2019

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on June 8, 2019December 7, 2019

The number of measles cases in the United States is the highest it has been in a lifetime, and there are no signs that it is slowing down.

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Hepatitis A Outbreaks in the United States

  • by René F. Najera, DrPH
  • Posted on May 23, 2019December 7, 2019

Hepatitis A outbreaks (epidemics) have been declared in multiple places in the United States. Hepatitis A vaccination clinics are also being offered.

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Our social media avatar for March is Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. As the wife of the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in the early 1700s, Lady Mary pushed for the adoption of the practice of variolation by western nations. Her son, Edward, received the procedure at the age of four. Her letters and observations on the practice made the adoption of variolation a suitable procedure to stave off smallpox in the 80 years or so before Jenner’s smallpox vaccine.
Summary: Photograph shows Canadian soldier being vaccinated at Canadian Forces Base Valcartier, Saint-Gabriel-de-Valcartier, Quebec. The camp was established in August 1914 as part of the mobilization of the Canadian Expeditionary Force at the beginning of World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Title: People from all over the city waiting to get vaccinated, Essen Healthcare, 542 E. 138th St., Bronx⠀
The sterility of each batch of vaccine is tested before it leaves the laboratory. USPHS (United States Public Health Service) Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana. April 1942. Image via the US Library of Congress.
Dr. Schreiber of San Augustine giving a typhoid inoculation at a rural school, San Augustine County, Texas. April 1943. (Remastered)⠀
Title: Vaccination of dogs at Alexandria, Va., 2/21/25⠀

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