Hib Vaccine Resources

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
• Immunizing Children Against Hib [52 pages]
  International training module from the Children’s Vaccine Program at PATH
• Podcast: Invasive Disease Caused by Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae
  Released 11/17/2015, Run time: 6:28
  Monitoring of Haemophilus influenzae disease in Europe from 1996 through 2006; effect of vaccination on disease prevalence
• Podcast: Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Disease, Europe, 1996–2006
  Released 4/5/2010, Run time: 5:16
  Monitoring of Haemophilus influenzae disease in Europe from 1996 through 2006; effect of vaccination on disease prevalence

Materials for Patients

• Easy-to-Read Schedules
  • Recommended Immunizations for Children (Birth through 6 Years)
  • Recommended Immunizations for Adults (19 Years and Older)
• Fact Sheet: Hib Disease and the Vaccine (Shot) to Prevent It
  • English [2 pages]
  • Spanish [2 pages]
• Fact Sheet: Hib Is Serious and Potentially Deadly [2 pages]
• Fact Sheet: Hib Questions and Answers [3 pages]
  Immunization Action Coalition
• Hib Vaccine Information Statement
  • English
  • Other Languages
• Cochlear Implants and Vaccination Recommendations

Clinical Information

• Haemophilus influenzae Disease
• Use of Vaccines to Prevent Meningitis in Persons with Cochlear Implants

References and Resources

• Global Hib Data and Surveillance
  World Health Organization’s surveillance, assessment, and monitoring…
• 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