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Infant Receiving an Intramuscular Immunization

May 3, 2011January 9, 2021 Brian

This photograph showed an infant being held by his mother, who was about to receive an intramuscular vaccination in his left arm. A qualified nurse was administering the vaccination while stabilizing the injection site.

Immunization is one of the most important things a parent can do to protect their children’s health. Today, we can protect children younger than two years old from 14 serious diseases including:

Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) (bacterial meningitis);Diphtheria; Hepatitis A; Hepatitis B; Influenza; Measles; Mumps; Pertussis (whooping cough); Pneumococcal disease; Polio; Rubella (German measles); Tetanus (lockjaw); Rotavirus; Varicella (chickenpox);

At least one vaccine is needed for each of these diseases, and for some diseases several doses are required for the best protection. Several “combination vaccines” exist in which multiple vaccines are given in a single shot, reducing the number of shots needed.

Infant Receiving an Intramuscular Immunization

May 3, 2011January 9, 2021 Brian

This photograph showed an infant being held by his mother while receiving an intramuscular vaccination in his left thigh muscle. A qualified nurse was administering the vaccination while stabilizing the injection site.

Immunization is one of the most important things a parent can do to protect their children’s health. Today, we can protect children younger than two years old from 14 serious diseases including:

Infant Receiving an Intramuscular Immunization

May 3, 2011January 9, 2021 Brian

Held by his mother, this infant was receiving an intramuscular immunization in his left thigh muscle, which was being administered by a qualified nurse who was stabilizing the injection site with her palm. The nurse was distracting the infant while she was administering the vaccine.

Infant Immunizations

Immunization is one of the most important public health interventions in history. It has saved millions of lives over the years and prevented hundreds of millions of cases of disease.

Infants and young children need to be vaccinated because the diseases prevented by vaccination can strike at an early age. Also, these diseases can be far more serious or common among infants or young children. For example, of the children under 6 months of age who get whooping cough (pertussis), 72% must be hospitalized, and about 84% of all deaths from pertussis are among children younger than 6 months of age.

Immunization is one of the most important things a parent can do to protect their children’s health. Today, we can protect children younger than two years old from 14 serious diseases including:

Elderly Female Receiving a Swine Flu Vaccination (1976)

May 3, 2011January 9, 2021 Brian

This 1976 photograph showed an elderly female as she was receiving a vaccination by a public health clinician during the nationwide swine flu vaccination campaign, which began October 1, 1976.

This rare influenza strain, “A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1N1) influenza virus”, against which this individual was being vaccinated, was reported among soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where one patient died. A very similar strain killed 500,000 people in the United States, and more than 20 million worldwide, during the pandemic of 1918-1919. In response to the 1976 outbreak, in order to prevent another epidemic, 50 million Americans were vaccinated during a 10 week period, setting an immunization world record.

Swine Flu Vaccination from Jet Injector

May 3, 2011January 9, 2021 Brian

This 1976 photograph showed an adult female receiving a vaccination that was administered by a public health clinician, by way of a jet injector during the nationwide swine flu vaccination campaign, which began October 1, 1976.

This rare influenza strain, “A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1N1) influenza virus”, was reported among soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where one patient died. A very similar strain killed 500,000 people in the United States, and more than 20 million worldwide, during the pandemic of 1918-1919. In response to the 1976 outbreak, in order to prevent another epidemic, 50 million Americans were vaccinated during a 10 week period, setting an immunization world record.

Mother Caring for her Sick Child

May 3, 2011January 9, 2021 Brian

This photograph shows a mother caring for her child who is in bed suffering from a cold.

Even though, there are many similarities between influenza and the common cold, colds generally do not result in serious health problems, such as pneumonia, bacterial infections, or hospitalizations.

Red Cross Volunteer Drawing Blood

May 3, 2011January 9, 2021 Brian

This Red Cross volunteer was drawing blood from an African-American woman to be tested for its concentration of antibodies during a 1976 influenza (swine flu) outbreak.

This volunteer is testing for the ”A/New Jersey/76” influenza virus, also known as the ”swine flu” virus. In 1976, a Fort Dix Soldier was infected by this virus and later died; this prompted a massive vaccination campaign in the U.S.

Extracting Influenza Virus Vaccine Fluzone

May 3, 2011January 9, 2021 Brian

This is CDC Clinic Chief Nurse Lee Ann Jean-Louis extracting Influenza Virus Vaccine, Fluzone® from a 5 ml. vial.

According to the product text, the intramuscular route of administration is recommended, vaccinating adults and older children in the deltoid muscle using a needle 1 inch in length or greater in order to penetrate the muscle tissue.

Drawing Blood from an Elderly Woman

May 3, 2011January 9, 2021 Brian

This 1976 photograph showed a public health scientist as he was drawing blood from an elderly woman, to be tested during the nationwide swine flu vaccination campaign that was started in October, 1976.

This rare influenza strain, “A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1N1) influenza virus” (swine flu), was reported among soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey, where one patient died. A very similar strain killed 500,000 people in the United States, and more than 20 million worldwide, during the pandemic of 1918-1919. In response to the 1976 outbreak, in order to prevent another epidemic, 50 million Americans were vaccinated during a 10 week period, setting an immunization world record.

Man Sneezing Germs Shown Spreading (sneeze in progress)

May 1, 2011January 9, 2021 Brian

This photograph captures a sneeze in progress, revealing the plume of salivary droplets as they are expelled in a large cone-shaped array from this man’s open mouth, thereby, dramatically illustrating the reason one needs to cover hios/her mouth when coughing, or sneezing, in order to protect others from germ exposure.