VEC Vaccine Notes

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

Watch the episode to find out:

• How a mom saved her son by begging for the first rabies vaccine to be tested on him and the irony of that son’s adult career
• Why fewer than 15 unvaccinated people have ever survived a rabies infection and the most famous person to have died from rabies
• Why it’s important that pet cats and dogs get vaccinated against rabies
• How the two-month long incubation period is used to shape vaccine recommendations
• Who should get the rabies vaccine without a known exposure and why

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

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 chikungunya and the vaccine that protects against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Watch the episode to find out:

• When and where chikungunya was first identified and how that relates to its name
• Where this disease is most common and how it is transmitted
• How most people can protect themselves without vaccination and who should consider vaccination
• Information about a second chikungunya vaccine and why it is no longer available in the U.S.

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

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 rotavirus 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 rotavirus vaccine is a good example of the robust nature of the vaccine safety monitoring systems in the U.S.
• The symptoms of rotavirus, which are often more recognizable to parents than the name of this virus
• The effects of rotavirus on babies in the U.S. each year before a vaccine was available
• The similarities and differences between the two rotavirus vaccines used in the U.S.
• Which version uses vaccine strains developed at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• What we now understand about the intestinal blockage, called intussusception, that caused the first rotavirus vaccine to be removed from use in the U.S.
• And why that vaccine is still used in some other countries
• Why the rotavirus vaccine is given during a very specific period of infancy

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

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 anthrax and the vaccine that protects against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Watch the episode to find out:

• How anthrax is part of the Sept. 11 history in the U.S.
• Where in the U.S. is known as the “anthrax triangle”
• Why anthrax is more likely to be found in certain parts of the U.S.
• Which animals are likely to have anthrax and expose people
• About the 4 different forms of anthrax disease
• Which form is the most common and which is the most deadly
• About 2 approaches to vaccination against anthrax
• About anthrax and questions related to Gulf War syndrome
• Why prevention is better than treatment
• Why anthrax is considered to be a potential bioterrorist weapon

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

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 pneumococcus 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:

• What pneumococcus has taught us about prevention versus treatment
• How many people died from antibiotic resistance each year in the US
• How many people of 100 have pneumococcus in their nose and throat right now
• The different locations that pneumococcal infections can occur in the body
• What two factors are designed to work together to protect babies in the early months of life
• Why the elderly call this the “pneumonia vaccine,” but parents know it as the “ear infection vaccine” (and why the latter is only “kind of right”)
• How pneumococcus is an opportunist pathogen
• What the letters and numbers in the pneumococcal vaccine names mean
• Why PCV20 and PCV21 are more different than they may at first appear to be
• Why pneumococcal and influenza vaccines can be given to adults at the same visit, but why parents of young children may opt to separate the visits for these two vaccines
• Why smoking and drinking alcohol can increase the risk for this infection

To learn more about pneumococcus and the vaccine to prevent it, please visit http://bit.ly/pneumococcal-vax.

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 human papillomavirus (HPV) and the vaccine that protects against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Watch the episode to find out:

• The ways this virus spreads without sexual intercourse
• How long HPV infections typically take to resolve
• Why a new HPV-related diagnosis (abnormal Pap or cervical cancer) is NOT evidence of cheating
• What HPV-related diseases males can experience
• What RRP is and how people can be affected
• Why condoms offer only limited protection
• Why Pap tests are still recommended after vaccination
• What we know about the safety of HPV vaccine
• About a resource where you can submit your HPV-related questions

To learn more about HPV and the vaccine to prevent it, please visit https://bit.ly/HPV-vax. You can also check our dedicated webpage that includes answers to dozens of questions received by the VEC at http://prevent-HPV.org.

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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Get ready for season 2 of VEC Vaccine Notes! Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, provides a sneak peek into the vaccines and diseases that will be discussed in season 2, including HPV, pneumococcal, shingles, rabies, Lyme disease, and more. She also announces the date of the first episode of 2026!

Check out the podcast version of this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHb_U8HfarU. 

Catch up on season 1 episodes:

• “VEC Vaccine Notes” webpage: http://vaccine.chop.edu/vaccine-notes
• VEC “Vaccines and Diseases” web section: https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-details
• VEC YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@VaccineEducationCenter
• VEC Podbean channel: https://vec-vaccine-notes.podbean.com/

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.

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

Find out:

• What makes cases of Ebola cause alarm
• How people are infected with Ebola virus
• Symptoms of Ebola infection
• Death rates from Ebola
• The four types of Ebola and which the vaccine protects against

To learn more about Ebola and the vaccines that prevent these infections, please visit https://bit.ly/vec-ebola.

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.