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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determines the recommended vaccination schedules, which list the age when each vaccine or series of vaccines is recommended for children, adolescents and adults.

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Here’s what else you should know about vaccines

Learning More

• Why is the vaccination schedule set the way it is? Who decides?
• Should I keep my own vaccination records for me and my family?
• Can you get a disease from the vaccine that’s supposed to help prevent it?
• Do you offer vaccines? If not, where can I go to get them?
• How much will these vaccines cost me?
• What if my insurance doesn’t cover vaccines or I don’t have insurance for me or my child?

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Vaccination Schedules

• Vaccine schedule for children (0 – 6 years)
• Vaccine schedule for adolescents (7 – 18 years)
• Vaccine schedule for adults (19 years and older)

An Influenza Virus Binds to a Respiratory Tract Cell

This image illustrates the very beginning stages of an influenza (flu) infection. Most experts think that influenza viruses spread mainly through small droplets containing influenza virus.

These droplets are expelled into the air when people infected with the flu cough, sneeze or talk. Once in the air, these small infectious droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby.

This image shows what happens after these influenza viruses enter the human body. The viruses attach to cells within the nasal passages and throat (i.e., the respiratory tract). The influenza virus’s hemagglutinin (HA) surface proteins then bind to the sialic acid receptors on the surface of a human respiratory tract cell. The structure of the influenza virus’s HA surface proteins is designed to fit the sialic acid receptors of the human cell, like a key to a lock. Once the key enters the lock, the influenza virus is then able to enter and infect the cell. This marks the beginning of a flu infection.

These images provide a 3D graphical representation of the biology and structure of a generic influenza virus, and are not specific to the 2009 H1N1 virus.

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Vaccination against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) is proving highly effective in reducing the spread of the sexually transmitted virus among young women, new research shows.

The rate of new infections with strains of HPV targeted by the vaccine have dropped by 56 percent among females aged 14 to 19 since the first vaccine was approved in 2006, report researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to the CDC, HPV infection is known to be the major cause of cervical cancer, and has also been strongly linked to vulvar, vaginal, penile, anal, and certain throat/oral cancers.

The new findings “are striking results, and I think they should be a wake-up call that we should increase vaccination rates, because we can protect the next generation of adolescents and young girls against cancer,” CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden said in a press conference held Wednesday.

The findings are published in the June issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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