How Important Is Chicken Pox Vaccine?Starting this month, it will be possible to have any child in the United States over the age of 12 months immunized against chicken pox.Schieszer, John
Jenner tested this theory when he took some infected cowpox matter and exposed an otherwise healthy boy through a cut in his arm. After the boy caught and recovered from cowpox, Jenner exposed him to smallpox via an injection. The boy remained healthy, and the world's first vaccine was bor...
Smallpox virus 60% of the European Population. Virologists have identified 12000 viruses in Bats and Monkeys some of which may jump across to Humans, as Covid19 has done. One of those little suckers could prove to be just too much for our immune system bringing an unexpected and swift en...
canvas top removed so we were all out in the elements. It was a freezing morning, and the “trail” we were going up was two ill-defined ruts in the ground up the side a a much steeper than I thought at first mountain. As always, Budge was strapped in beside me in the middle ...
Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) may lead to acute or chronic hepatitis. HBV infections were previously much more frequent but there are still 240 million chronic HBV carriers today and ca. 620,000 die per year from the late sequelae liver cirrhosi
Much speculation and little reliable data as yet. I am keeping my mind open on real infection numbers, immunity issues, vaccine issues and treatment issues. Meanwhile, in Australia where it appears eminently feasible, we should go for eradication, by lock-down if necessary. This would include ...
Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) may lead to acute or chronic hepatitis. HBV infections were previously much more frequent but there are still 240 million chronic HBV carriers today and ca. 620,000 die per year from the late sequelae liver cirrhosi
MYTH:A live vaccine can give me the disease it's supposed to prevent. TRUTH:As we've discussed, live vaccines can cause extremely mild symptoms. However, experts agree that they are very minor and much better than coming down with the full-blown disease. ...
Not only does a push for a chickenpox vaccine protect a child and his or her classmates, it can also protect grandparents who may not have had chickenpox. Protecting the elderly is also the idea behind another vaccination that many of us line up for each winter: the flu shot. Between 12...