These observations spurred long-term efforts to develop a live attenuated influenza vaccine that could both pro- vide broader protection than the inactivated vaccines and eliminate the need for an injection. The recently licensed cold-adapted influenza virus vaccine is administered by intranasal aerosol,...
While the unvaccinated children represent a threat to herd immunity just by walking around, the refusal of some people to get vaccinated obviously affects the system of supply and demand. Certain vaccines may not be manufactured if there's a decline in demand for them, meaning that those that ...
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Measles is on the rise, fuelled by unfounded fears about the safety of the MMR vaccine. But while teachers are on the front line in the battle to keep the deadly disease at bay, there are ways schools can minimise the risks and educate students about the
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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...
Reactogenicity represents the physical manifestation of the inflammatory response to vaccination, and can include injection-site pain, redness, swelling or induration at the injection site, as well as systemic symptoms, such as fever, myalgia, or headach
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Thus, a harmonic test is that in which the injection or production rate is varied in a periodic way. These rates can be imposed after a long shut in of the tested well, like in conventional well testing, or they can be superposed to ongoing production without interruption of production ...
As part of a national "catch-up" programme aimed at 10-16 year olds, health bodies will be proactively seeking those who are unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated and offering them the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) injection through GPs or school programmes. MMR bid to keep measles outbre...