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Vaccine Preventable Disease Program (VPDP): 609-826-4860

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The New Jersey Departmentof Health (NJDOH),Vaccine Preventable Disease

Program received the 2015Bull’s-Eye Award for the “ProtectMe with 3+” adolescentimmunization awareness initiative.Each year, the Association ofImmunization Managers (AIM)presents the Bull’s-Eye Award to astate, territorial, or localimmunization program inrecognition of an outstandingimmunization initiative. Theaward recognizesimmunization strategies that"hit their mark," achievinggoals and increasing awarenessby encouraging replication inother programs.

“Protect Me with 3+” is acollaboration between thePartnership for Maternal andChild Health of Northern NewJersey (the Partnership) andthe NJDOH in an effort toincrease adolescentimmunization awarenessamong NJ’s adolescents andparents. Created in 2012,“Protect Me with 3+” began asa contest that challenged NJ’syouth to create 30-second

public service announcements(PSAs)/videos about one of thethree primary adolescentimmunizations: tetanus,diphtheria, acellular pertussis(Tdap); human papilloma virus(HPV); and meningococcalconjugate (MCV4). In 2014,

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Communicable DiseaseService Mission StatementOur mission is to prevent communicable disease amongall citizens of New Jersey, andto promote the knowledge anduse of healthy lifestyles to maximize the health and well-being of New Jerseyans.

We will accomplish our mission through our leadership,collaborative partnerships, andadvocacy for communicable disease surveillance, research,education, treatment, prevention and control.

Chris Christie, Governor

Kim Guadagno, Lt. Governor

Mary E. O’Dowd, MPHCommissioner

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE SERVICEChristina Tan, MD, MPHState Epidemiologist/Assistant Commissioner

Gary Ludwig, MS, Director

Suzanne Miro, MPH, MCHESEditor, Research Scientist

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New Jersey Receives NationalRecognition as a Winner of the Bull’sEye Award for Innovation andExcellence in Immunization

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Past issues of the New JerseyCommuni-CABLE are available online at:http://nj.gov/health/cd/pub.shtml.

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The Advisory Committee onImmunization Practices(ACIP) 2015-16

Recommendations for Preventionand Control of Seasonal Influenzawere recently published in theMorbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.A summary of what’s new this seasonis listed below.

There is no preferential recommendation forany one flu vaccine over another.

The ACIP continues to recommendthat all persons six months andolder be vaccinated annually againstinfluenza, with either live attenuatedinfluenza vaccine (LAIV) orinactivated influenza vaccine (IIV),with no preference expressed foreither vaccine when each one isotherwise appropriate.

During the 2014-2015 flu season,ACIP issued a preferentialrecommendation for the use ofLAIV in healthy children aged twothrough eight years who have nocontraindications or precautions.This decision was based on severalprevious studies which suggestedthat the nasal spray (LAIV) vaccinecould offer better protection thanthe flu shot (IIV) in this age group.However, in the absence of datademonstrating consistent relativeeffectiveness, preference for LAIVover IIV is no longer recommended.For more information, please visithttp://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2015/s0226-acip.html

Two of the vaccine virus components from lastseason were updated this season.

All 2015-16 influenza trivalent(three-component) vaccines are madeto protect against the following threeviruses:

v an A/California/7/2009(H1N1)pdm09-like virus

v an A/Switzerland/9715293/2013(H3N2)-like virus

v a B/Phuket/3073/2013-like virus.(This is a B/Yamagata lineage virus)

This influenza A (H3N2) virus and theinfluenza B virus components of the 2015-16 season trivalent vaccines havebeen updated from the 2014-2015 fluvaccine. Quadrivalent(four-component) influenza vaccinesalso will include a B/Brisbane/60/2008-like (Victoria lineage) viruscomponent, which is the same Victorialineage virus recommended forquadrivalent formulations during the2013-14 and 2014-15 flu seasons.

There is a new algorithm for one dose versustwo doses for children six months througheight years of age.

In light of the continuing circulationof influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 as thepredominant influenza A(H1N1) virussince 2009, and the inclusion of anA/California/7/2009(H1N1)-like virusin U.S. seasonal influenza vaccinessince the 2010–2011 season, separateconsideration of receipt of vaccinedoses containing this virus is no longer

2015-2016 Influenza VaccineRecommendations

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Karen Worthington – Karen joins the Infec-tious and Zoonotic Disease Program(IZDP) as a Research Scientist workingprimarily on Ebola virus disease, vec-tor-borne, and other zoonotic diseases.She is a certified occupational healthnurse and completed a fellowship atthe Centers for Disease Control Na-tional Institute for Occupational Safetyand Health.

Denay Pressley – Denay joins the Infec-tious and Zoonotic Disease Program asthe Senior Management Assistant. Shehas served in a variety of administrativeroles within the NJ Department ofLabor and Workforce Developmentprior to coming to the CommunicableDisease Service.

Allison Portney – Allison joins the VaccinePreventable Disease Program surveil-lance staff and will be working on thePerinatal Hepatitis B Prevention Pro-

gram. She is a graduate of ColumbiaUniversity’s Mailman School of PublicHealth and has worked with the NewYork City Department of Health andMental Hygiene’s foodborne diseaseunit.

Kathleen Ross – Kathleen has joined theCommunicable Disease Service as aCouncil of State and Territorial Epi-demiologists (CSTE) Fellow. She is agraduate of Drexel University School ofPublic Health and has worked with thePhiladelphia Department of Health inthe Vaccine Preventable Disease,Healthcare-Associated Infection andYouth Hepatitis C Surveillance pro-grams.

Katelyn Ogden – Katelyn joins the Infec-tious and Zoonotic Disease Program asa Clerk Typist. Katelyn has a back-ground in graphic design and homehealth.

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CDS Welcomes New Staff!

National Immunization AwarenessMonth is an annual observance thathighlights the need for vaccinesthroughout the life span to protectagainst serious, and sometimes deadly,diseases. Throughout August, NewJerseyans are encouraged to make surethey are up to date with theirimmunizations to protect themselvesand others from vaccine-preventablediseases.

In recognition of NationalImmunization Awareness Month, theNational Public Health InformationCoalition, in collaboration with theCDC, has developed a toolkit that isavailable online atwww.nphic.org/niam.

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November 16-22, 2015Get Smart About Antibiotics Week is an annual one-week observance to raiseawareness of antibiotic resistance and the importance of appropriate antibioticprescribing and use. Join us in promoting important public health messages sothat together we can preserve the power of these life-saving drugs! Messagesregarding Get Smart About Antibiotics Week will be sent out via email andNJLINCS. If you would like to receive the messages and materials, please sendyour email address to [email protected] or sign up for a NJLINCSaccount at http://www.njlincs.net/default.aspx, scroll down and click on “I need anew account.”

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Get Smart AboutAntibiotics Week!

The community education program “Teaching Communities about AntibioticResistance” toolkit is now available in Spanish! A training will be held toward theend of 2015 (date to be determined) so stay tuned!

NewSpanish-languageResourceAvailable!

On August 4, 2015 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) releaseda report that projected increases in drug-resistant infections and C. difficile andhighlighted the need for nationwide improvements in infection control and antibioticprescribing. The CDC recommends a coordinated approach between health carefacilities and public health agencies in order to prevent up to 70% oflife-threatening carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections over five years.Strengthening antibiotic stewardship could prevent 619,000 antibiotic-resistant andC. difficile infections and save over 37,000 lives in that time period. In a new video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPP9ReyvY2s] titled “CDC Vital Signs– Making Health Care Safer: Stop the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance" the CDCspotlights how antibiotic-resistant germs are spreading between healthcarefacilities, even those that are practicing infection control and antibioticstewardship. For more information or to read the report, please visithttp://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/2015/08/04/cdc-modeling-shows-safe-health-care-means-coordination/

CDC EncouragesCoordination toImprove HealthCare Safety

http://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/2015/08/04/cdc-modeling-shows-safe-health-care-means-coordination/

http://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/2015/08/04/cdc-modeling-shows-safe-health-care-means-coordination/

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recommended. Therefore, a newalgorithm for determining theappropriate number of doses forchildren aged six months througheight years has been developed.

v Children six months througheight years who have previouslyreceived two or more total dosesof trivalent or quadrivalentinfluenza vaccine as of July 1,2015 only need one dose for2015-16. The two previous dosesdo not need to have been givenduring the same season orconsecutive seasons.

v Children six months througheight years who have previouslyreceived only one dose or nodoses of influenza vaccine needtwo doses of vaccine to be fullyprotected for the 2015-2015season.

This season both trivalent andquadrivalent influenza vaccines willbe available. Different routes ofadministration are available for fluvaccines, including intramuscular,

intradermal, jet injector and nasalspray vaccine. For more informationincluding the available vaccineproducts and indications, andvaccination of persons with a historyof egg allergy, please access thecomplete report athttp://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6430a3.htm?s_cid=mm6430a3_e

Get more information athttp://nj.gov/health/cd/handwashing.shtml.

Save the Date - December 7, 2015Interactive Social Media Conference to be held at the New Jersey State Police, Forensic Technology Center auditorium, 1200 Negron Drive, Hamilton, NJ

The conference is free to attend - lunch not includedApplications for continuing education credits have been made for publichealth and Certified Health Education Specialists.Registration is now open on the NJ Learning Management Network

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“Protect Me with 3+” expanded toa multi-pronged adolescentimmunization awareness initiativeby including best practices fromsuccessful adolescent healthinitiatives and by addressing thegap in resources available forpreteens and teens. Three majorparts of the initiative include:v Website for both adolescents

and parents that ismobile-device friendly,medically accurate, and writtenin plain-language

v Year-long social mediacampaign on the four mostpopular platforms (Facebook,Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr)

v Expanded annual adolescentPSA contest to include influenzavaccination and a poster optionfor preteens

During the 2014-2015 contestperiod, the expanded campaignreached more people than the2013 contest period. Over 16,000unique users visited the website,with over 31,000 page viewsrepresenting a 434% and 201%increase, respectively. There was a55% increase incontestsubmissions,mostly due tothe posteroption whichbetter engagedpreteens. Morethan 60,000people werereached via the

four social media platforms and anadditional four million impressionswere earned from onlineadvertising; over 20 local mediasources promoted the contest. Pastwinning videos were also featuredby two nonprofit nationaleducation organizations (Value ofVaccination and the ImmunizationAction Coalition), broadening thecampaign’s reach to a nationalaudience. Videos have been viewedover 7,000 times and winningposters are being printed fordistribution throughout the state.

The upcoming “Protect Me with3+” contest is tentatively scheduledfor winter 2016. For moreinformation about adolescentvaccines and to see the winningvideos and posters, visithttp://protectmewith3.com/. Tolearn more about AIM and to readabout other Bulls-Eye recipients,visithttp://www.immunizationmanagers.org/?page=BullsEyeAwar2013.

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