Pregnancy
CDC recommends Tdap vaccine during these weeks of each pregnancy.
What are 27 through 36 weeks of gestation?
This is the oldest age at which DTaP vaccine is routinely administered.
What is 6 years of age?
After receiving at least one Tdap dose, adults routinely receive a Td or Tdap booster at this interval.
What is every 10 years?
Introduced to the Americas by Europeans, this disease caused devastating epidemics and population losses among many Indigenous peoples.
What is smallpox?
When nirsevimab is indicated, a 6-month-old infant weighing 16 lbs needs this dose of nirsevimab to protect her from RSV.
What is 100 mg?
These maternal antibodies cross the placenta before birth and provide passive systemic protection to a newborn.
What are maternal IgG antibodies?
These are the two Hib-containing vaccines preferred for the primary series in AI/AN infants.
What are Vaxelis and PedvaxHib?
Licensed in the United States in 1981, this vaccine prevents infection with a virus that can cause liver cancer.
What is the hepatitis B vaccine?
This disease inspired the nationwide dime-collection campaign that became the March of Dimes.
What is polio?
Researchers estimate that the human immune system has the potential to make up to this many different antibodies.
What is one quintillion?
Healthy household contacts of a pregnant person generally need to avoid this many routinely recommended vaccines.
What is none?
In addition to age, name the 4 main qualifiers to receive a VFC vaccine.
What are uninsured, underinsured, Medicaid eligible or enrolled, or American Indian/Alaska Native?
This GSK pentavalent Meningococcal vaccine covers serogroups A, B, C, W and Y.
What is PENMENVY?
The introduction of penicillin in the 1940s temporarily reduced interest in developing a vaccine against this disease.
What is the pneumococcal disease?
This vaccine-preventable disease is famous for puffy cheeks and a swollen, tender jaw caused by inflammation of the parotid glands.
What is the mumps?