How are vaccines used in the prevention of disease? How do they work? Explain how vaccination works to protect someone against mumps. Explain how a vaccination works to protect someone against mumps. What are the major controllable risk factors for contracting infectious diseas...
Which cells in our immune system allow vaccines to work? What is humoral immunity? Explain immunity. What cell types and proteins are involved in the immune response to rhinovirus infections? Which of the following cells make antibodies to defend our body?
We believe that the decision of whether to vaccinate against COVID-19 should be based upon the patient’s age, other health problems, relative risk from vaccines, how much and what type of COVID-19 is in your community, and the patient’s and family’s preference. Tw...
the availability of vaccines and the increase in population immunity means that the virus is no longer the threat it once was to most people (though it remains a concern for groups such as the immunocompromised and elderly). With the expiration of the United States’ official Public Health Emer...
One would be tempted to use estrogens to prevent thromboembolism in COVID-19. However, in conditions of supra-physiological estrogen levels, such as pregnancy, we witness an increase in the coagulation function. 3.7 Gonadal function The clinical relevance of sex hormones’ signaling in diseases' pa...
preventing them from allowing the virus to replicate. Those cells are a lost cause anyway, and the body will eventually replace them. T-cells do not protect against getting infected; they only mitigate severity once infected. That’s one-way vaccines limit the severity of the disease. Tha...
There may still be a certain proportion of Japanese people who have strong hesitancy against vaccines. To facilitate the smooth implementation of the COVID-19 vaccine in Japan, it is crucial to explore interventions that can increase the number of people willing to receive it while not impeding ...
Do you think that all vaccines should be mandatory or only specific ones? Why or why not? Fill in the blank: The most dangerous condition related to hyperthermia is, which has a 50% mortality rate. Give the medical term that matches the following literal definition: One who c...
Lupus is not caused by an infectious microorganism and is not contagious from one person to another. How do you get lupus? Genetic factors increase the tendency of developing autoimmune diseases, and autoimmune diseases such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, and autoimmune thyroid disorders are more ...
What is the HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine, and how did it help prevent cervical cancer? While this vaccine comes with its share of controversy, it illustrates a good point: vaccines can be useful to help prevent cancer. How do they accomplish thi...