Yesterday and earlier today I was contacted in relation to a telephone call that I understand I received close to five years ago in September 2008.
The vaccine is too dangerous -- both to the people receiving it and to those with whom they have close contact -- and the risk of an outbreak too small to justify wider use, the panel said.
Close contacts of high-risk groups (con) included those persons, whether paid or unpaid, who have close contact with or who take care of individuals at risk of severe illness if infected, some of whom may not be able to receive influenza vaccine themselves, in households, day care centers or other institutions except for long-term care facilities, hospital and ambulatory settings.
Students and apprentices receive close guidance in direct contact with more experienced workers, but also the more indirect forms of guidance, such as observations of more experienced workers and features of the learning context, are being described (see Billett 2002).
Students will also receive close individual supervision.
Three hundred six (63%) of those who received chemoprophylaxis were considered close contacts according to ACIP criteria (7).
However, cocooning remained incomplete in 93% of families and in most families <50% of close contacts received pertussis vaccination.
All other 42 close contacts did not receive prophylactic antiviral drug after exposure.
When a sporadic case or epidemic occurs, the close contacts need to receive a vaccine and chemoprophylaxis with antimicrobial drugs to cover the delay between vaccination and protection.
Twenty-five percent of those who received chemoprophylaxis in this outbreak were not close contacts according to the ACIP definition (7); however, chemoprophylaxis, especially in highly publicized cases, is often given to people who do not fit the definition of a close contact (9, 18, 19).
