Hib Vaccine Resources
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Below are a number of resources designed to help healthcare professionals recommend and administer Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccines, as well as answer patient questions.
Vaccine Safety
- Childhood Vaccines and Febrile Seizures
- Hib Vaccine Safety and Monitoring
- Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
Provider Education
- Immunization: You Call the Shots — Haemophilus influenzae type b module
This training provides practice-oriented immunization content in a very basic step-by-step manner - Podcast: Invasive Disease Caused by Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae
Released 11/17/2015, Run time: 6:28
Dr. Elizabeth Briere discusses nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae, which causes a variety of infections in children and adults
Materials for Patients
- Easy-to-Read Schedules
- Hib Vaccine Information for Parents (Spanish)
- Fact Sheet: Hib Questions and Answers [3 pages]
Immunization Action Coalition - Hib Vaccine Information Statement
- Cochlear Implants and Vaccination Recommendations
Clinical Information
- Haemophilus influenzae Disease
- Use of Vaccines to Prevent Meningitis in Persons with Cochlear Implants
References and Resources
- CDC’s Active Bacterial Core Surveillance
- Hib Publications
Chapters, manuals, and articles on Hib vaccine recommendations, surveillance, epidemiology, outbreaks, and laboratory… - Surveillance Manual’s Chapter on Hib Disease
Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases textbook - Travelers’ Health (Yellow Book) Chapter on Immunocompromised Travelers
CDC Health Information for International Travel