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It’s That Time of Year for Serious Immunosurveillance!
With the holidays approaching, get-togethers, travel plans, crowded shopping malls and parties, PracticeWell Practices are stocking their refrigerators with immune boosting vaccines. With influenza viruses making a rude, earlier than usual appearance this season, other nefarious pathogens may follow and most certainly those opportunistic secondary bacterial infections that often seem to be accessories to viral criminal invasions as well!
Healthcare providers across the U.S. are providing the needed support, back-up and ammunition for patients’ immune forces. The front line of human systemic defense; Macrophages, TCells, BCells, Neutrophils, Mastcells and more, all need a briefing on what potentially dangerous and lethal enemies to the human ecosystem are on the lam then prepare, to stay alert and be ready for.
Therefore, no matter the season, immunization providers are delivering the BOLO notification to the immune agents in the trenches, giving patients a significantly better fighting chance against would be invaders! BOLO below, a list of some vaccine preventable diseases along with some aliases.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus - AKA: RSV
Influenza A&B – AKA: Flu
S.Pneumoniae – AKA: Pneumonia
SARS CoV2 – AKA: COVID19
Measles, Mumps, Rubella – AKA: Problematic
Bordetella Pertussis – AKA: Whooping Cough
Corynebacterium Diphtheriae – AKA: Diphtheria
Clostridium Tetani – AKA: Tetanus
Haemophilus Influenza type B – AKA: HIB
Poliomyelitis – POLIO
Hepatitis B & A virus – AKA: Hepatitis
Rotavirus – AKA: Rotavirus
Varicella – AKA: VZV, Chicken Pox
Herpes Zoster – AKA: HZ, Shingles
Neisseria meningitidis A,C,W,Y & B – AKA: Meningococcus
Human Papilloma Virus – AKA: HPV
Japanese Encephalitis – AKA: JE
Rabies – AKA: Rabies
mPox / Small Pox – AKA:
Vibrio Cholerae – AKA: Cholera
S typhi – AKA: Typhus
Tick Borne Encephalitis – AKA: TBEV
Yellow-Fever – AKA: YFV
Dengue – AKA: DENV
Providers should refer to current prescribing information for details on proper use, storage and handling of any vaccine. Additionally, providers should refer to the latest recommendations of any vaccine. Respiratory Virus Immunization Recommendations can be found here.
Immunization providers and their staff may access these vaccines at PBG vaccine purchasing group savings through a PracticeWell membership.
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