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IAC Express #772þ

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===========================Issue Number 772December 22, 2008 CONTENTS OF THIS

ISSUE 1. Now available online: Needle Tips2. Now available online: Vaccinate

Adults for adult medicine specialists3. Happy holidays from all of us at IAC4.

California Immunization Coalition develops three Q & A fact sheets to help

clinicians answer parents' common questions5. IAC updates VIS dates on " It's

federal law! You must give your patients current Vaccine Information Statements

(VISs) " 6. Available only until January 20, CDC's " Immunization Encounter "

webcast is well worth watching7. IAC's Video of the Week features children with

pneumonia in the Philippines8. December issue of the AAP Immunization

Initiatives Newsletter has information on CPT codes for immunization

administration9. Important: Be sure to give influenza vaccine throughout the

influenza season--through spring 200910. CDC issues a Health Advisory with

interim recommendations for using antiviral medications in the midst of a high

prevalence of Oseltamivir-resistant influenza A (H1N1) viruses11. A packed

schedule of events makes this year's National Influenza Vaccination Week the

biggest ever!12. Color template of special influenza gift cards now available

from the National Influenza Vaccine Summit13. New: CDC posts updated information

on supply of hepatitis A vaccine and on status of measles, mumps, and rubella

vaccines14. Office of Minority Health releases strategies to address chronic

hepatitis B in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and other Pacific Islander

populations15. December issue of CDC's Immunization Works electronic newsletter

recently released