Parental reports of vaccine information statement usage in Utah.

Background: Since the implementation in 1986, there is little research focused on vaccine information statements (VISs) use for vaccine education and parental perception.

Purpose: To explore parental reports of dissemination and use of VISs.

Methods: Data for this pilot, cross-sectional, descriptive study were collected through an online survey in both English and Spanish.

Ten Years of Diphtheria Toxin Testing and Toxigenic Cutaneous Diphtheria Investigations in Alberta, Canada: A Highly Vaccinated Population.

Background: Respiratory diphtheria is a potentially fatal toxin-mediated disease that is rare among highly vaccinated populations. Cutaneous infections with toxigenic are most commonly linked to travel to an endemic region. has emerged as a predominant, locally acquired cause of respiratory and cutaneous diphtheria in Western Europe.

Characterization of Swine Influenza A(H1N2) Variant, Alberta, Canada, 2020.

Influenza strains circulating among swine populations can cause outbreaks in humans. In October 2020, we detected a variant influenza A subtype H1N2 of swine origin in a person in Alberta, Canada. We initiated a public health, veterinary, and laboratory investigation to identify the source of the infection and determine whether it had spread.

Influenza outbreak in a Canadian correctional facility.

Correctional facilities face increased risk of communicable disease transmission and outbreaks. We describe the progression of an influenza outbreak in a Canadian remand facility and suggest strategies for preventing, identifying and responding to outbreaks in this setting. In total, six inmates had laboratory-confirmed influenza resulting in 144 exposed contacts.

Evaluation of the use of oseltamivir prophylaxis in the control of influenza outbreaks in long-term care facilities in Alberta, Canada: a retrospective provincial database analysis.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of oseltamivir prophylaxis in the management and control of influenza outbreaks in long-term care facilities in Alberta, Canada.

Setting And Participants: Long-term care facilities where 127 influenza outbreaks were reported to public health authorities in Alberta, Canada, during two influenza seasons from 2013 to 2015.

Design And Outcome Measures: Using routinely collected surveillance and administrative data, we examined the association between decision-making time for oseltamivir recommendation as prophylaxis strategy for influenza outbreaks in long-term care facilities (explanatory variable) and the duration of an influenza outbreak, the postprophylaxis risk of influenza-like illness and hospitalisation among residents of long-term care facilities in Alberta (outcome variables) using multivariable linear and Poisson regression models.

Varicella zoster virus transmission in youth during incarceration.

Purpose - Facility-based Varicella zoster virus (VZV) transmission is reported in a Canadian youth offender correctional centre (YOCC). Transmission occurred from an immunocompetent youth offender (YO) with localized Herpes zoster to another immunocompetent single dose vaccinated YO, resulting in Varicella zoster (VZ) breakthrough disease. The purpose of this paper is to identify infection prevention and control (IPAC) measures utilized in this setting.

Identification and epidemiology of severe respiratory disease due to novel swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus infection in Alberta.

Background: In March 2009, global surveillance started detecting cases of influenza-like illness in Mexico. By mid-April 2009, two pediatric patients were identified in the United States who were confirmed to be infected by a novel influenza A (H1N1) strain. The present article describes the first identified severe respiratory infection and the first death associated with pandemic H1N1 (pH1N1) in Canada.