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Among parents with high vaccine hesitancy, a required vaccine education module led to significant decreases in vaccine hesitancy, while checklist and justification requirements increased vaccine hesitancy slightly. Among parents with low vaccine hesitancy, we observed a potential backfire effect when parents were required to write a justification statement. Our findings warrant replication in a larger, fully-powered trial to accelerate knowledge about how parents across the vaccine hesitancy spectrum respond to exemption regimes. Respiratory disease caused by RSV infection is recognized as a severe public health issue in infants, young children and elderly with no specific treatment option. Vaccination may be the most effective strategy to combat this highly infectious virus although no vaccine has been approved. The novel vaccine candidate MVA-BN-RSV encodes RSV surface proteins F and G (subtypes A, B) as well as internal proteins N and M2 in the MVA-BN viral vector backbone to provide broad protection against RSV. This was a first in human study to investigate safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of MVA-BN-RSV. Sixty-three participants were allocated to 3 groups adult (18-49 years) low (1 × 107 TCID50) or high (1 × 108 TCID50) dose and older adult (50-65 years) high dose. Participants in each group were randomized in a 61 ratio to receive 2 doses of MVA-BN-RSV or placebo 4 weeks apart and were monitored for 30 weeks. All participants completed the study, receiving both doses. AZD0156 No serious AEs or AEs of special interest were reported. The most common AEs were injection site pain (56% in the combined high dose groups, 17% in the low dose group). MVA-BN-RSV induced robust T cell responses covering all 5 inserts with fold increases ranging from 1.8 to 3.8. Higher and broader responses were observed in the high dose groups (83% responders to at least 3 peptide pools in the combined high dose groups compared to 63% in the low dose group). Moderate but consistent humoral responses were observed against A and B RSV subtypes (up to approximately 2-fold increases in the high dose groups). No differences were observed between the adult and the older adult groups in safety, reactogenicity or immunogenicity. The study demonstrated that the well tolerated MVA-BN-RSV vaccine candidate induces broad cellular and humoral immune responses, warranting further development. Infectious bronchitis (IB) is a highly infectious viral disease responsible for major economic losses in the poultry industry. A reverse genetic vaccine is a safe, rapid, and effective method of achieving IB prevention and control. In this study, we constructed the recombinant strain, rH120-S1/YZ, using a reverse genetic system, based on the backbone of the H120 vaccine strain, with the S1 gene replaced with that of the QX-like nephropathogenic strain, ck/CH/IBYZ/2011, isolated in China. The results of dwarf chicken embryos, growth kinetics, and viral titration in the embryos demonstrated that the biological characteristics of the recombinant virus remained unchanged. Like the rH120-infected group and in contrast to the rIBYZ-infected group, no mortality, clinical signs, or lesions were observed in the lungs or kidneys of young chickens inoculated with rH120-S1/YZ. The viral loads in various tissues, cloacal, and oral swabs was lower in most types of samples, indicating that the rH120-S1/YZ strain was highly safe in chicks. Compared to rH120 vaccination group, when the efficacy of this strain was evaluated against the QX-like IBV strain, better protection, with 100% survival rate and no disease symptom or gross lesion was observed in the chickens vaccinated with rH120-S1/YZ. Increased levels of IBV-specific antibodies were detected in the serum of the rH120-S1/YZ-vaccinated animals 14 days post-vaccination. Collectively, our results suggest that the recombinant strain, rH120-S1/YZ, may represent a promising vaccine candidate against QX-like IBVs. Traditional replicating smallpox vaccines are associated with serious safety concerns in the general population and are contraindicated in immunocompromised individuals. However, this very population remains at greatest risk for severe complications following viral infections, making vaccine prevention particularly relevant. MVA-BN was developed as a non-replicating smallpox vaccine that is potentially safer for people who are immunocompromised. In this phase II trial, 3 MVA-BN dosing regimens were evaluated for safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity in persons with HIV (PWH) who had a history of AIDS. Following randomization, 87 participants who were predominately male and African American received either 2 standard doses on weeks 0 and 4 in the standard dose (SD) group (N = 27), 2 double-standard doses on the same schedule in the double dose (DD) group (N = 29), or 3 standard doses on weeks 0, 4 and 12 in the booster dose (BD) group (N = 31). No safety concerns were identified, and injection site pain was the most commonly reported solicited adverse event (AE) in all groups (66.7%), with no meaningful differences between groups. The incidence of severe (Grade 3) AEs was low across groups and no serious AEs or AEs of special interest considered related to study vaccine were reported. Doubling the standard MVA-BN dose had no significant effect on induction of neutralizing antibodies, with 100% seroconversion and comparable GMTs at week 6 in the SD and DD groups (78.9 and 100.3, respectively). A booster dose significantly increased peak neutralizing titers in the BD group (GMT 281.1), which remained elevated at 12 months (GMT 45.3) compared to the SD (GMT 6.2) and DD (GMT 10.6) groups. However, based on the immune response previously reported for healthy participants, a third dose (booster) does not appear necessary, even for immunocompromised participants. Clinical Trial Registry Number NCT02038881. BACKGROUND Vaccination coverage for infant vaccinations in the Swedish National Immunization Program (NIP) has been high for more than a decade, with approximately 97% of 2-year-old children fully immunized. Vaccination coverage against Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) has been around 80% since introduction for girls in 2012. This indicates high parental confidence in the NIP, but as seen in other European countries rapid shifts in confidence may occur. This study examined vaccine confidence and attitudes towards vaccinations among parents in the Swedish population. METHODS A web-based survey was sent to 1046 parents with children aged 0-15 years, in a panel administrated by The Public Health Agency of Sweden. The survey included questions on vaccination awareness, safety and information channels. The response rate was 87%. Data were weighted to adjust for non-responders and for representativeness of the Swedish population. RESULTS Parents were categorized as acceptors (79%), questioning acceptors (19%) or selective refusers (2%).