VEC Vaccine Notes

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) and the vaccine that protects against it. She explains that the JEV vaccine is considered a travel vaccine, but it’s not recommended for all travelers to the Far East. She discusses the many considerations for making a vaccine recommendation. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Watch the episode to find out:

• Which Americans are most often affected by JEV
• The rates of death and permanent harm when someone is infected with JEV
• What aspects of a trip are considered when deciding who should get the JEV vaccine
• JEV vaccine recommendations for adopted children who started the vaccine before moving to the U.S.

To learn more about JEV disease and the vaccine to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-jev.

Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form, https://bit.ly/contact-vec-vaccine-notes.

For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.

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Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about hepatitis A and the vaccine. She explains what makes the hepatitis A virus so hardy and why everyone is at risk for infection. She addresses common questions about the opioid epidemic’s connection to outbreaks, travel precautions, and the differences between hepatitis A and B. She also discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Watch the episode to find out: 

• Why virtually anyone can get hepatitis A
• Links between spread of hepatitis A and the opioid epidemic
• Two reasons children are recommended to get this vaccine
• Why it's more difficult to know when children have hepatitis A
• Details about a concerning outbreak of hepatitis A in Virginia in 2021-2022
• The difference between hepatitis as a symptom versus infection with a type of hepatitis virus
• Differences between hepatitis A and hepatitis B
• Information about why hepatitis A vaccine recommendations changed over time 

To learn more about hepatitis A and the vaccines to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-hepa. 

Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form, https://bit.ly/contact-vec-vaccine-notes.

For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.

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Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about cholera and the vaccine. She explains why vaccination is not routinely recommend and what can be done to reduce the risk of cholera. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Watch the episode to find out:

• How cholera contributed to our understanding of germ theory
• Steps travelers can take to protect themselves against cholera
• Why it is difficult to know how many cases of cholera occur annually
• The role of wars, natural disasters, and climate change in the rates of cholera

To learn more about cholera disease and the vaccine to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-cholera.

Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form, https://bit.ly/contact-vec-vaccine-notes.

For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.

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Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about dengue and the vaccines that protect against it. She explains why most people in the U.S. aren’t recommended to get the dengue vaccine, and why they can’t be vaccinated even if they are among those who could benefit from vaccination. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks of dengue.

Watch the episode to find out:

• Why a dengue vaccine that was available in the U.S. is no longer
• Why people can get dengue up to four times throughout their life
• Why only female mosquitoes bite people
• What antibody-dependent enhancement or ADE is
• What three criteria people needed to meet in order to get vaccinated against dengue when the vaccine was available

To learn more about dengue disease and the vaccine to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-dengue.

Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form, https://bit.ly/contact-vec-vaccine-notes.

For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.

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Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about cytomegalovirus, or CMV, and where things stand with vaccine development. She also addresses common questions and discusses the risks of CMV.

Watch the episode to find out:

• Why pregnant healthcare workers in the 1980s couldn’t care for infants with CMV, but those today can (hint: It’s not because of a vaccine.)
• What family of viruses CMV is part of and why that is relevant when protecting against this infection
• About congenital CMV, the birth defects it can cause, and the numbers of infants affected each year
• How long young children can spread this virus after infection (hint: It’s measured in years.)
• Which current childhood vaccine has similar goals to those that would be expected from a CMV vaccine

To learn more about CMV disease and the vaccine to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-cmv.

Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form, https://bit.ly/contact-vec-vaccine-notes.

For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.

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Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about smallpox — a disease that killed 300 million people prior to vaccination. She discusses the successful eradication of smallpox virus through vaccination and addresses common questions as well as the relative risks and benefits.

Watch the episode to find out about:

• The role of smallpox in shaping history
• The progression of smallpox rash when a person is infected
• What was done in the homes of survivors and why
• Variolation, Jenner and when vaccination for smallpox ended in the U.S.
• Two vaccines, why only one is currently licensed for use, and why it is still recommended for some people today (hint: it’s not all about smallpox)

To learn more about smallpox disease and the vaccine to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-smallpox.

Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form, https://bit.ly/contact-vec-vaccine-notes.

For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.

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Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib, and the vaccines that protect against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.

Watch the episode to find out:

• About the special teams hospitals had when Hib was more common and why
• The difference between Haemophilus influenzae type b and influenza
• Where Hib bacteria can be found in some healthy people
• The difference between viral and bacterial meningitis

To learn more about Hib disease and the vaccine to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-hib.

Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form, https://bit.ly/contact-vec-vaccine-notes.

For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.

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Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about meningococcus and the vaccines that protect against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.

Watch the episode to find out:

• Why meningococcus demonstrates the limits of focusing only on treatment and not prevention
• Death rates from meningococcal-induced meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord) and sepsis (bloodstream infection)
• The ages of greatest risk and why
• The types of lifelong effects that people can experience
• Why a meningococcal type B vaccine was more difficult to develop than vaccines against the other types (A, C, W, Y)
• A comparison between viral and bacterial meningitis

To learn more about meningococcus disease and the vaccine to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-mening.

Questions? Submit the VEC Vaccine Notes form, https://bit.ly/contact-vec-vaccine-notes.

For other vaccines, diseases or general questions about vaccines, check out https://vaccine.chop.edu.

Subscribe to our Parents PACK newsletter, https://bit.ly/3KfLUoO.