VEC Vaccine Notes

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib, and the vaccines that protect against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.

Watch the episode to find out:

• About the special teams hospitals had when Hib was more common and why
• The difference between ...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about meningococcus and the vaccines that protect against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.

Watch the episode to find out:

• Why meningococcus demonstrates the limits of focusing only on treatment and not prevention
• Death rates from meningococc...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about tuberculosis, also known as TB, and the vaccine that protects against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Watch the episode to find out:

• The dubious distinction TB holds among infectious diseases
• The two forms the disease can take in peopl...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about Lyme disease and a potential new vaccine. She also addresses common questions and discusses the risks of Lyme disease in the absence of vaccination.

Watch the episode to find out:

• When and where Lyme disease was first identified
• What species of animals can be infected with the bacteria that cause Lyme
• Three things t...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about shingles and the vaccine that protects against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Watch the episode to find out:

• Why the shingles rash tends to appear in certain places on the body
• Details about the length and severity of pain associated ...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about mpox and the vaccine that protects against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Watch the episode to find out:

• When monkeypox virus was identified and where
• What changed that has made the virus more prevalent since 2022
• Why mpox patients so...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about rabies and the vaccines and treatments that protect against it. She also discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.

Watch the episode to find out:

• How a mom saved her son by begging for the first rabies vaccine to be tested on him and the irony of that son’s adult career
• Why fewer than 15...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about chikungunya and the vaccine that protects against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Watch the episode to find out:

• When and where chikungunya was first identified and how that relates to its name
• Where this disease is most common and how...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about rotavirus and the vaccines that protect against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.

Watch the episode to find out:

• Why rotavirus vaccine is a good example of the robust nature of the vaccine safety monitoring systems in the U.S.
• The sympt...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about anthrax and the vaccine that protects against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Watch the episode to find out:

• How anthrax is part of the Sept. 11 history in the U.S.
• Where in the U.S. is known as the “anthrax triangle”
• Why anthrax is mo...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about pneumococcus and the vaccines that protect against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.

Watch the episode to find out:

- What pneumococcus has taught us about prevention versus treatment

- How many people died from antibiotic resistance each ye...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about pneumococcus and the vaccines that protect against it. She also addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.

Watch the episode to find out:

- What pneumococcus has taught us about prevention versus treatment

- How many people died from antibiotic resistance each ye...

Get ready for season 2 of VEC Vaccine Notes! Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, provides a sneak peek into the vaccines and diseases that will be discussed in season 2, including HPV, pneumococcal, shingles, rabies, Lyme disease, and more. She also announces the date of the first episode of 2026!

Check out the podcast version of this video, https://www.youtube.com/wa...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about Ebola and the vaccine that protects against it. She addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Find out:

- What makes cases of Ebola cause alarm

- How people are infected with Ebola virus

- Symptoms of Ebola infection

- Death rates from Ebola

- The four types of E...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis and the vaccines that protect against them. She addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of these diseases and the vaccines.

Find out:

- The historical nicknames for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis

- What toxins and toxoids are and why they are relevant ...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and the vaccine that protects against it. She addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccine.

Find out:

- What family of viruses TBE belongs to

- The number of cases in the U.S. over two decades

- What a “dead-end” host is

- How TBE infect...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about polio and the polio vaccine. She addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of polio disease and the vaccine.  

Find out:

- Who is likely the most famous person to have had polio

- The four possible outcomes of a polio infection

- What condition related to previous polio infection occurs dur...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about hepatitis B and the vaccines that protect against it. She addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.

Find out:

- Why hepatitis B is called the “silent epidemic”

- How many people die annually from hepatitis B

- Two factors at the heart of spread of this virus

- W...

Charlotte Moser, Co-Director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, talks about COVID-19 and the vaccines that protect against it. She addresses common questions and discusses the relative risks and benefits of the disease and vaccines.

Find out:

- Why we still need to talk about COVID-19

- How COVID-19 vaccines were made so quickly

- Why getting to the bottom of the origins of the virus is importan...