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English: Example of a Vaccine Information Statement (VIS) produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This VIS is specifically for the MMR vaccine. Under the National Childhood Injury Act all vaccine providers are required to provide a VIS to the vaccine recipient before the vaccination is giv
CDC Vaccine Information Statement for MMR Vaccine from April 2012. According to the 1993 amended National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA), a VIS must contain at least the following four components: (1) a description of the benefits of the given vaccine, (2) a description of its risks, (3) information about the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), and (4) other relevant ...
A sexually transmitted infection (STI), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and the older term venereal disease (VD), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex.
The mission of the CDC expanded beyond its original focus on malaria to include sexually transmitted diseases when the Venereal Disease Division of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) was transferred to the CDC in 1957. Shortly thereafter, Tuberculosis Control was transferred (in 1960) to the CDC from PHS, and then in 1963 the Immunization ...
Neisseria gonorrhoeae typically sexually transmitted [1] Diagnostic method: Testing the urine, urethra in males; vagina or cervix in females, throat, or rectum [1] Prevention: Condoms, having sex with only one person who is uninfected, not having sex [1] [3] Treatment: Ceftriaxone by injection and azithromycin by mouth [4] [5] Frequency: 0.8% ...
Sexually transmitted infections are becoming more common in older adults. Rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis in people ages 55 and up more than doubled in the U.S. over the 10-year period ...
The Center for Prevention Services was formed in 1980 as one of the original five CDC centers, at the same time CDC's name changed from the singular "Center for Disease Control" to plural "Centers for Disease Control". [2] The Center for Prevention Services became the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention in 1996. [3]
The CDC is proposing that health providers offer a single 200-milligram dose of doxycycline to gay and bisexual men who have sex with… CDC proposes antibiotic as morning-after STI treatment for ...