It's not too late to vaccinate — Get your flu vaccine today!

When you see "Get Your Flu Vaccine Here" signs and banners outside pharmacies and in doctor's offices, you might think, "it's winter already; isn't it too late for that?"

The answer is no.

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Red Book Webinar: 2012 Immunization Schedule Recommendations

February 2 at 11:00 am MT

• Review current guidance for HPV vaccine use in males
• Discuss changes in meningococcal vaccine use for high risk as well as non-high risk children
• Review changes in Tdap use in children 7 through 10 years of age, during pregnancy and in older adults
• Summarize measles cases in 2011 and discuss the need for immunization of international travelers
• Update influenza activity and vaccine use
• The webinar will be approximately 60 minutes (45 minutes for the presentation followed by a 15 minute Q&A period)

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2012 Letter of Intent

For the past 6 years the Idaho Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics has been a grantee from the Idaho Transportation Dept to work with organizations around the state to offer child passenger seat restraints, education and community checks to families. There is funding available by "health region" for organizations to work together to ensure that families of need have car seats for the children. Currently Regions 1-6 have identified a lead organization to apply for the funds; if you are interested in working with the lead organization in your region please contact me and I will put you in touch with the key leader. We are currently looking for a lead organization to apply for these funds in Region 7; please see the letter of intent. If you need any more information please feel free to contact me at 208-381-3033 or iversons@slhs.org.

Sherry Iverson
Executive Director
Idaho Chapter of the AAP

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Idaho's Epidemic of Fear: Vaccination Liberation Movement Takes a Shot at Public Health 12/14/2011

An increasing number of Idahoans living north of the 45th Parallel are afraid of vaccinations. For whatever reason--and there are quite a few--more Panhandle parents are opting not to vaccinate their children against diphtheria, hepatitis, measles, mumps, pertussis, polio, rubella and/or tetanus.

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December 20—Vaccine Hesitancy Webinar

Dr. Edgar Marcuse, MD, MPH, FAAP, will discuss issues underlying the current immunization debate. He will offer examples of effective risk communication techniques to assist parents to cope with the morass of conflicting information they may encounter. In this session, you will also learn how Washington State, which leads the nation in school-based exemptions, is tackling the issue.

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2011 Pediatrics Articles

• Adolescent Vaccination Coverage Levels in the United States: 2006’àí2009 (pdf)
• Washington State Pediatricians' Attitudes Toward Alternative Childhood Immunization Schedules (pdf)
• Financial Impact to Providers Using Pediatric Combination Vaccines (pdf)
• Infant Sleep After Immunization: Randomized Controlled Trial of Prophylactic Acetaminophen (pdf)
• Leveraging State Immunization Information Systems to Measure the Effectiveness of Rotavirus Vaccine (pdf)
• Immunogenicity and Safety of MMRV and PCV-7 Administered Concomitantly in Healthy Children (pdf)
• Welfare, Maternal Work, and On-Time Childhood Vaccination Rates (pdf)
• Reflections on US Immunization Challenges: Lady Montague, Where Are You? (pdf)
• Varicella in Infants After Implementation of the US Varicella Vaccination Program (pdf)

2012 Booster Shots registration
is now open online!

The 2012 workshops will be held in the following cities:

• Nampa
• McCall
• Twin Falls
• Pocatello
• Hailey
• Ponderay
• Post Falls
• Lewiston
• Grangeville

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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS STATEMENT ON HPV VACCINE

By: O Marion Burton, MD, FAAP, president, American Academy of Pediatrics

The American Academy of Pediatrics would like to correct false statements made in the Republican presidential campaign that HPV vaccine is dangerous and can cause mental retardation. There is absolutely no scientific validity to this statement. Since the vaccine has been introduced, more than 35 million doses have been administered, and it has an excellent safety record.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Academy of Family Physicians all recommend that girls receive HPV vaccine around age 11 or 12. That?s because this is the age at which the vaccine produces the best immune response in the body, and because it?s important to protect girls well before the onset of sexual activity. In the U.S., about 6 million people, including teens, become infected with HPV each year, and 4,000 women die from cervical cancer. This is a life-saving vaccine that can protect girls from cervical cancer.