BACKGROUND Foreign-born persons are considered at higher risk of undervaccination and exposure to many vaccine-preventable diseases. Information on vaccination coverage among foreign-born populations is limited. PURPOSE To assess adult vaccination coverage disparities among foreign-born populations in the U.S. METHODS Data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey were analyzed in 2013...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect of vaccination on mortality before 2 years of age in a developing country. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Rural communities in Burkina Faso. PARTICIPANTS 9085 children born in the study area between 1985 and 1993. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Child death rate. RESULTS Mortality before 2 years of age was lower in children who had been vaccinated: those v...

BACKGROUND During late 2012 and early 2013 several outbreaks of diphtheria were notified in the North of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The aim of this study was to determine whether the re-emergence of this vaccine-preventable disease was due to insufficient vaccination coverage or reduction of vaccine effectiveness within the affected regions. METHODS A serosurvey was conducted in th...

BACKGROUND As in other European countries, the French vaccination schedule changes according to epidemiological and socio-economic situations. Further changes are planned for 2013, including the withdrawal of one dose for primary vaccination against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, pertussis and Haemophilus influenzae. A partnership between the French Technical Vaccination Committee and the French I...

The concept of mass vaccination of large populations by inhalation of a vaccine in the form of an aerosol [Aleksandrov and Gefen, J. Microbiol. Epidemiol. Immunobiol. (USSR) 31:997, 1960; Sawyer, Kuehne, and Gochenour, Military Med. 129:1040, 1964] has a strong appeal. Aerosol vaccination could immunize a maximal number of people in a minimal period of time, and possibly could confer superior p...

Infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly. Improvements in health care prevention including vaccinations and treatment have led to an increase in the birth life expectancy. The vaccines that are now recommended for people over 60 are influenza, herpes zoster and a vaccine combining tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, and pneumococcal vaccine. Our aim was to e...