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.
Current issue of Parents PACK
Check out the July 2025 issue:
Feature Article
9,000 Reasons for Routine Childhood Hepatitis B Vaccination
Feature Video
A Refresher on the History of Hepatitis B Vaccine
News & Notes
- Influenza vaccines and thimerosal
- Measles cases rise to highest in 33 years
"Just the Vax" Trivia Corner
What was the first vaccine to prevent a known cause of cancer?
Past issues of Parents PACK newsletter
Read 2025 issues online
- July | PDF
9,000 Reasons for Routine Childhood Hepatitis B Vaccination - June | PDF
What we know and how we feel: Can you recognize the difference? Try it! - May | PDF
Is Moderna making another bivalent COVID-19 vaccine? - April | PDF
Have you wondered? Vaccine schedule edition - March | PDF
4 vaccine considerations for those with chronic medical conditions, including disabilities - February | PDF
Making vaccine decisions during pregnancy: What to know - January | PDF
Getting accurate information in an age of misinformation
Read 2024 issues online
- November | PDF
Going to the source: Finding out more about a message that includes science - October | PDF
What’s in vaccines and why? - June | PDF
Empty chairs at dinner tables - May | PDF
Do vaccines cause chronic diseases? - April | PDF
Are mRNA vaccines a type of gene therapy?
For other 2024 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.
Read 2023 issues online
- September | PDF
A new vaccine … and it’s for adults! Find out more about RSV and the vaccine. - June | PDF
COVID-19 vaccine: What’s in the vial? - April | PDF
How many trivia questions about vaccine ingredients can you answer? - March | PDF
Does my child benefit from a COVID-19 vaccine?
For other 2023 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.
Read 2022 issues online
- November | PDF
Flu vaccine: What’s in the vial? - 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
For other 2022 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.
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
For other 2021 issues of Parents PACK, please check our archive.