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Summary of Major Changes in the 2006 Red Book
MAJOR CHANGES: GENERAL
All chapters and sections are updated.
Many new Web sites are added and are placed in bold throughout the text for ease of access.
The electronic image library, available through Red Book Online (www.aapredbook.org) and Red Book Plus, has been expanded with over 1800 slides, including more than 500 new slides, and reorganized to better complement the text subsections of chapters in Section 3.
SECTION 1. ACTIVE AND PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION
Prologue. Table 1.1 is updated to include the baseline 20th century annual morbidity and 2004 morbidity from 10 diseases with vaccines recommended before 1990 for universal use in children in the United States.
Sources of Vaccine Information. A Web site is added that provides the CDC and private sector costs of pediatric and adolescent vaccines.
Informing Patients and Parents. A Web site is added to Table 1.2 that provides the status of vaccine information sheets.
Parental Concerns About Immunization and Parental Refusal of Immunization. Previously titled Risk Communication, these portions describe factors that contribute to concerns parents have about immunization.
Vaccines Licensed and Distributed in the United States. Table 1.3 (p 10) lists vaccines produced and/or licensed in the United States. Additions since 2003 include tetanus and diphtheria toxoids and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccines for adolescents and adults, meningococcal conjugate vaccine, measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) vaccine, and rotavirus vaccine.
Vaccine Handling and Storage. Information is updated to clarify appropriate equipment for storing vaccines, describe the role of personnel who handle vaccines, and update procedures that should be used to store vaccines. Table 1.4 (p 13) is updated and simplified.
Site and Route of Immunization. An intranasal vaccine section is added for live-attenuated influenza vaccine. Table 1.5 (p 21) is added showing site
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