Atlanta (AP) -The Federal Medical Expert Panel recommended a new combination shooting as another option to expand RSV vaccination for adults and protect teens from meningitis.
The 15 -person panel is usually recommended for the disease control and the prevention center for how to use vaccines.
However, those who evaluate the recommendations of Wednesday in decades of practice do not have background knowledge of medicine. The agency does not have a permanent director, so the former CDC former inspector will call.
Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for Health and Human Services, said this decision would be made by CDC’s staff Matthew Buzzelli.
Buzzelli is not a doctor. His CDC Bio Print your experience as a lawyer, including federal inspections.
The recommendations of the science panel on Wednesday are as follows.
50 to 59 people should be able to get vaccinations for respiratory cell fusion viruses. There is a risk of heart disease, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
-The approval of a new combination shot created by GSK protected from five strains of meningococcal bacteria, including strains that occurred at the university campus about 10 years ago. We will join other products that target bacteria.
-At the second chikungunya vaccine to an option for Americans over 12 years of traveling to a country where mosquito -mediated diseases occur. About 100 to 200 cases are reported every year among US travelers.
Adds a new preventive measure for the old Chikungunya vaccine that uses weak but living viruses. People aged 65 or older should evaluate the advantages of the version of the version, the panel said. Prevention measures were added when the panel members heard about the investigation of the 65 -year -old reports of 65 years of age or older who were sick due to heart or brain symptoms within a week after vaccination. The investigation continues.
It is not clear how quickly it will decide whether Buzzelli will accept the recommendations.
The Trump administration nominated Susan Monarez as acting CDC in January and chose her last month. I am leading the agency. But while waiting for the Senate’s confirmation, she basically restored herself from regular jobs due to federal law on vacancies.
Monarez has a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology.
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