[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 153 (Monday, August 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42637-42638]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21289]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Meeting

    Name: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) 
Working Group on Influenza.
    Times and Dates: 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., September 1, 1998; 8 a.m.-12 
noon, September 2, 1998.
    Place: CDC, Auditorium A, Building 2, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, 
Atlanta, Georgia 30333.
    Status: Open to the public, limited only by the space available.
    Purpose: The Committee is charged with advising the Director, 
CDC, on the appropriate uses of immunizing agents. The Influenza 
Working Group was formed to assist the Committee in expanding the 
current ACIP influenza immunization recommendations to include the 
use of new influenza vaccines and antiviral agents expected to be 
licensed by the Food and Drug Administration within the next two 
years.
    Matters to be Discussed: The agenda will include presentations 
on the potential health benefits of vaccinating healthy adults 
against influenza; economic studies on vaccinating healthy adults 
against influenza; a study on the vaccination of healthy women; the 
cost effectiveness of vaccinating healthy adult workers; modeling 
the economics of vaccinating healthy adults against influenza; 
comments from the Food and Drug Administration, Council of State and

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Territorial Epidemiologists, National Institutes of Health, American 
College of Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the 
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers of America; and a review of the 
licensed and new influenza antiviral agents.
    Contact Person for More Information: Gloria A. Kovach, Committee 
Management Specialist, CDC (16-4346), 1600 Clifton Road, NE, 
Mailstop D50, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, telephone 404/639-7250.
    Dated: July 30, 1998.
Carolyn J. Russell,
Director, Management Analysis and Services Office, Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention (CDC).
[FR Doc. 98-21289 Filed 8-7-98; 8:45 am]
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