Parents PACK Newsletter
Parents PACK is a monthly e-newsletter for anyone who wants information about vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases. Each issue provides timely vaccine information, a feature article, vaccine questions and answers, information about immunizations around the world and a trivia question.
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Past issues of Parents PACK newsletter
Read 2022 issues online
- September | PDF
Fall and flu vaccines: 3 things to know and 1 common misconception - August | PDF
Boosters, variants, new vaccines and the never-ending saga of COVID-19 - July | PDF
Chickenpox, shingles and … Justin Bieber? - June | PDF
3 misconceptions about the hepatitis outbreak in children - May | PDF
No. This study does not prove what you think it does: Part III - April | PDF
No. This study does not prove what you think it does: Part II - March | PDF
No. This study does not prove what you think it does: Part I - February | PDF
DYK why HPV doesn’t mean cheating? Take our quiz. - January | PDF
“I couldn't ever do what everybody else did” — Living with the long-term effects of polio
Read 2021 issues online
- November | PDF (English | Spanish)
3 Considerations for COVID-19 vaccination of 5- to 11-year-old children - February | PDF (English | Spanish)
Long-term side effects of COVID-19 vaccine? What we know
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