Health Secretary updates H1N1 flu situation in Washington
Anne Schuchat, assistant surgeon general at the United States Public Health Service and director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention participates in a news conference updating the H1N1 flu situation in Washington on December 17, 2009. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg
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U.S. whooping cough cases may reach the highest number in the last 50 years, with Washington state being hardest hit, health officials said.
U.S. teen vaccination rates are rising for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, and for meningitis, but not for human papillomavirus, officials say.
Immunization rates for U.S. children ages 19- to 35-months for most routine vaccines remains at or more than 90 percent, health officials say.
U.S. teen vaccination rates, though improved, leave a lot to be desired, so if teens are uninsured parents should ask about free vaccines, officials say.
U.S. officials say it is inevitable that a large amount of unused H1N1 vaccine will have to be thrown out once it has expired.
Particularly in Georgia, where H1N1 is circulating intensively, it's important for people to take advantage of the vaccine, federal health officials urge.
There are 136 million doses of H1N1 vaccine available for ordering by the states, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
One in three people in the United States -- 60 million -- has received the H1N1 vaccine, but about half of Americans want the vaccine, health officials say.
Federal health officials said they are seeing an increase in serious pneumococcal infections around the United States, a finding described as "worrisome."
Influenza cases are down in some parts of the United States, but 43 states are still reporting activity, health officials said Friday.
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