Live-attenuated vaccines:Live-attenuated basically means alive, but very weak. These vaccines are made when thevirusis weakened to such a level that it reproduces only about 20 times in the body. By comparison, natural viruses reproduce thousands of times. When the vaccine is made, the virus ...
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,...
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...
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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Respondent 10, CHC nurse You may give them a lot of information, tell them that it is better to vaccinate, but they do not change their point of view. Respondent 2, CHC doctor It remains hard. I regularly tell them what the illnesses do and also refer them to our website. On the ...
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...