The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC)’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices just released the 2014 schedule for childhood immunizations. There are minimal changes over last year, basically:<\/p>\n
–meningococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV4-CRM) can be used down to 2 months of age in high risk (eg anatomic or functional asplenia, complement component deficiency)<\/p>\n
-includes what to do if patient given vaccine prior to minimum age\/interval between doses (incorporated in the catch-up vaccine chart, which is much clearer than previously)<\/p>\n
-updated flu vaccine recs for this year, also pneumococcal vaccine for high risk<\/p>\n
-footnote updated for hep A vaccine (also remember to consider in adults who travel to endemic areas, which seems to be most of the world. though if they lived there as a child, consider checking titer first \u2013 since our experience is about 90% are already immune)<\/p>\n
for mmwr overview of immun sched: http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm63e0203a1.htm<\/a><\/p>\n for the immunization schedule in printable form: http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccines\/schedules\/hcp\/child-adolescent.html<\/a><\/p>\n geoff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US CDC childhood immunization schedule for 2014 […]<\/p>\n