I’ve been honored to write a quarterly column, “Vaccine News You Can Use” for the Colorado Family Physician (CFP) journal for a number of years. Below is Part 2 of my column in the Spring 2025 edition of the CFP .

Part 1 of my Spring 2025 column in the CAFP journal can be viewed here on pages 26-28; however, I’ve also posted it as a blog here. This is Part 2 of the column which was only posted online here, not in the journal itself but you can view it below.

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• VACCINE GENERAL NEWS AND POLICY
  • The lifesaving legacy of vaccines
  • Here is how we know that vaccines do not cause autism
  • Autism prevalence is climbing but it’s not due to vaccines
  • Childhood vax rates, a rare health bright spot in struggling states, are slipping
  • How measles, whooping cough, and worse could roar back on RFK’s watch
• CANCER
  • New cancer vaccines on the horizon: Renewed hope or hype?
• COVID
  • Vaccine injury claims spiked during COVID, but only 3% of decided claims were eligible for compensation
  • Florida grand jury investigating COVID vaccines found no proof of criminal activity
  • Study finds parents vaccinated against COVID more likely to vaccinate children against MMR
  • Third COVID vaccine decreases risk for hospitalization, death among older adults for up to four months
  • Three main factors contributed to COVID vaccine hesitancy in black women
  • Self-replicating mRNA COVID vaccine approved in Europe
• EBOLA
  • Groundbreaking Ebola vaccination trial launches in Uganda
• LONG COVID
  • BCG vaccine may protect against long COVID
• H5N1 (Bird Flu)
  • Moderna awarded $590M to help accelerate development of mRNA-based bird flu vaccine
  • Scientists racing to develop a new bird flu vaccine
  • Experts lament ‘anemic’ response to H5N1
• INFLUENZA
  • US flu cases surge, vaccinations lag
• MMR
  • Study finds parents vaccinated against COVID more likely to vaccinate children with MMR
• MPOX
  • Mpox cases are increasing in Colorado
  • Mpox Clade I in the US should be a wake-up call
• PERTUSSIS
  • Whooping cough cases in the US are the highest they’ve been in a decade
  • Whooping cough outbreak at Colorado Springs middle school
  • Recombinant pertussis booster offers lasting immunity
• Polio
  • The forgotten toll of polio
• RSV
  • Older immunocompromised may need adjuvanted RSV vaccine
  • Nirsevimab protected infants and children aged 0-19 months from severe RSV
  • Nirsevimab proves highly effective in reducing RSV cases among native children
  • FDA advisors say more data needed for mRNA RSV vaccines in young kids
• SHINGLES
  • FDA to consider prefilled syringe version of Shingrix

Abbreviations used in both Parts 1 & 2 of the column:

• ACIP – Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices
• AIV – avian influenza virus
• Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine
• CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• CDSi – CDC’s Clinical Decision Support for Immunizations (CDSi)
• CME – Continuing Medical Education
• COVID – COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2
• DPT – tetanus, diphtheria, and whole-cell pertussis vaccine, also called DTwP, not available in the US since 1996
• DTaP – tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccine for infants and young children
• FDA – US Food and Drug Administration
• FPs – family physicians
• GBS – Guillain-Barré syndrome
• H5N1 – a subtype of avian influenza A virus or bird flu
• H5N9 – a subtype of avian influenza A virus or bird flu
• flu – influenza
• MMR – measles, mumps, and rubella
• mRNA – messenger ribonucleic acid
• RFK – Robert F. Kennedy
• RSV – respiratory syncytial virus
• SARS-CoV-2 – severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
• Tdap – tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccine for older children and adults
• URI – upper respiratory infection
• US – United States
• ACIP – Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices
• AIV – avian influenza virus
• Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine
• CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• CDSi – CDC’s Clinical Decision Support for Immunizations (CDSi)
• CME – Continuing Medical Education
• COVID – COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2
• DPT – tetanus, diphtheria, and whole-cell pertussis vaccine, also called DTwP, not available in the US since 1996
• DTaP – tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccine for infants and young children
• FDA – US Food and Drug Administration
• FPs – family physicians
• GBS – Guillain-Barré syndrome
• H5N1 – a subtype of avian influenza A virus or bird flu
• H5N9 – a subtype of avian influenza A virus or bird flu
• flu – influenza
• MMR – measles, mumps, and rubella
• mRNA – messenger ribonucleic acid
• RFK – Robert F. Kennedy
• RSV – respiratory syncytial virus
• SARS-CoV-2 – severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
• Tdap – tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis vaccine for older children and adults
• URI – upper respiratory infection
• US – United States

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