Vaccines in Japan

T. NAKAYAMA KITASATO INSTITUTE FOR LIFE SCIENCES

•Disease surveillance •Vaccine gap •Vaccine problems in Japan KITASATO INSTITUTE 1914

Increasing demands on vaccines Emerging and reemerging diseases Virus infection：Measles, Avian Flu, Swine pandemic SARS, Noro, Rabies, West Nile, Dengue, HIV Bacterial infections：O157, Pertussis, TB, Cholera, S. pyrogenes, Drug resistant; Flu, MRSA, Hib, Pneumococcus Immuno-compromised host Medical costs for treatment of infectious diseases For common infectious diseases, or low incidence but serious complications 2007: Adult measles 2008: Pertussis outbreak in university 2009: SO-IV pandemic

Vaccine: Prophylactic measures against infectious diseases and cancer (HBV, HPV)

Smallpox（天然痘） recognition card

Polio Eradication 2005

To realize the goal of measles elimination by 2012 Measles Eradication : Is it in Our Future? Orenstein WA, Strebel PM, Papania M, Sutter RW, Bellini WJ, Cochi SL. (CDC) American Journal of Public Health 90:1521-15245, 2000.

ABSTRACT Potential impediments to eradication include (1) lack of political will in some industrialized countries, (2) transmission among adults, (3) increasing urbanization and population density, (4) the HIV epidemic, (5) waning immunity and the possibility of transmission from subclinical cases, and (6) risk of unsafe injection.

Measles in Japan