Vaccines: Pubs/PinkBook/main page

Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
The Pink Book: Course Textbook
11th Edition (May 2009/updated december 2010)



The Pink Book provides physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, and others with the most comprehensive information on vaccine-preventable diseases.

Typical chapters include a description of the disease, pathogenesis, clinical features, laboratory diagnosis, medical management, epidemiology, risk factors, trends in the United States, vaccine details, vaccination schedule and use, contraindications and precautions to vaccination, adverse reactions following vaccination, vaccine storage and handling, and reference or publications.

The appendices are a wealth of reference materials including: age and interval table, discontinued vaccines, ingredients table, warning signs for vaccine storage, comforting restraints, site-maps, skills-checklist, vaccine administration guide, etc.

open here please, and see below:
Vaccines: Pubs/PinkBook/main page



updated section: appendix D
Each month we highlight a resource previously hidden within the 400+ pages of Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases.

For December, it's Vaccine Administration Guidelines. Find answers to common questions such as the practice of pre-filling syringes, multiple injections, reconstitution, etc.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/D/vacc_admin.pdf#vacc