About these resources
The Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, a.k.a. the "Pink Book," provides physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals with the most comprehensive information on routinely used vaccines and the diseases they prevent.
The 14th edition of the Pink Book includes:
- General immunization recommendations
- Vaccine safety, storage and handling, and administration information
- Detailed information about vaccine-preventable diseases, including disease pathogenesis, clinical features, epidemiology, and secular trends in the U.S.
- Detailed information about vaccines, including vaccine characteristics, schedule and use, efficacy, safety, and contraindications and precautions
Four appendices provide reference materials, including: vaccine minimum age and intervals, vaccine excipients, catch-up schedules, and more.
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Index
Understand the importance of vaccines for your immune system.
Best practices for vaccine doses, timing, contraindications, precautions, and adverse reactions.
Explore how to increase vaccination rates in healthcare practices.
Explore vaccine safety and how it is assessed and monitored.
Proper vaccine storage and handling is important for keeping vaccines safe and effective.
Learn about vaccine administration, including how to keep patients safe.
Learn the differences between Diptheria vaccines; how to dose and store them; and vaccine safety.
Understand the dangers of H. influenza and proper techniques for vaccinations.
Understand hepatitis A and learn about proper administration of the vaccine.
Learn about Hepatitis B and vaccination, including vaccine safety, efficacy, storage, and reporting.
Review vaccines and symptoms of HPV; how to dose and store the vaccine; and vaccine safety.
Investigate influenza and vaccination, including vaccine safety, efficacy, storage, and schedules.
Read about measles and vaccination, including vaccine safety, efficacy, storage, and reporting.
Review meningococcal disease and vaccination, including vaccine safety, efficacy, and storage.
Learn about mumps and vaccination, including vaccine safety, efficacy, storage, and reporting.
Investigate pertussis and vaccination, including vaccine safety, efficacy, schedules, and storage.
Read about pneumococcal disease and vaccination, including vaccine safety, efficacy, and reporting.
Learn about Poliomyelitis and vaccination, including vaccine safety, efficacy, and reporting.
Read about rotavirus and vaccination, including vaccine safety, efficacy, storage, and reporting.
Understand rubella and vaccination, including vaccine safety, efficacy, storage, and reporting.
Read about tetanus, including vaccination and vaccine safety, efficacy, storage, and reporting.
Read about varicella and vaccination, including vaccine safety, efficacy, storage, and reporting.
Learn more about zoster or shingles and vaccination, including vaccine efficacy and safety.
Access the schedules and recommendations for vaccines.
Explore the updatable information in Appendix B of the Manual about Vaccines.
Find updatable PDFs on Vaccine Information Statements in Appendix C of the Manual about Vaccines.
Read updatable PDFs on vaccine safety in Appendix D of the Manual about Vaccines.
Find the editors and contributors to the Pink Book, and who to contact with questions and comments.
Learn what has changed since publication of the Pink Book.
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