Sentences with phrase «use killed vaccines»

Use killed vaccines only.

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But because the components of vaccines are weakened or killed — and in some cases, only parts of the microorganism are used — they're unlikely to cause any serious illness.

The funds will be used to purchase qualifying vaccines against pneumococcus, a pneumonia bug that kills more children in poor countries than any other preventable infection

Before the pertussis vaccine entered routine use in the 1940s, the bacterial infection killed about 4,000 people a year in the United States.

This study used vaccines prepared from killed viruses that are the basis of flu shots.

But the vaccine has been known to cause occasional outbreaks, presumably because the procedure used to kill the virus is imperfect.

Instead, the vaccines use killed autologous tumor cells from the patient to activate the immune system.

Two types of vaccines were used for the study: one constructed with genetically engineered DNA molecules that teach immune system cells to recognize premalignant cells expressing HPV16 E7 proteins, and one that is a non-infectious, engineered virus that targets and kills precancerous cells marked by HPV16 and HPV18 E6 and E7 proteins.

According to Wilson, monoclonal antibodies from (deliberately infected) animals were routinely used in the first half of the 20th century to try to treat diphtheria (an upper - respiratory illness that killed roughly 15,000 people annually in the early 1920s until a vaccine was formulated against it in 1924) and tetanus (a potentially fatal infection also known as lockjaw, because one of the muscles it destroys is in the jaw).

So Tesh first exposed hamsters to a broad range of flaviruses: dengue, the yellow fever vaccine, St. Louis encephalitis, a live vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE) that's used in China, or a killed JE vaccine licensed in the United States.

Before pertussis vaccines came into use in the 1930s, the infection killed about 4,000 Americans (mostly infants) a year — 10 times as many as the number of people who died annually from measles and 12 times more than died from smallpox.

«To take children who are in need of vaccines to prevent some disease that could kill them and use that as a front for something else is unconscionable,» says Paul Offit, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Instead of a liquid containing whole killed or attenuated virus, this vaccine uses dry virus - like particles (VLPs) which simply coat the needles in the presence of a simple stabilizing agent, reducing the need for refrigeration — a potential boon for use in developing countries.

Now researchers have used a new strategy to develop a vaccine that protects mice from multiple variants of the Strep B bug, which kills around 100 newborns in the United States each year.

GLS - 5700, which was designed and tested in seven months, differs from conventional vaccines, which typically use inactivated or killed versions of a virus and can take years to develop and test.

The nanoparticle vaccine platform can be safer to certain populations than vaccines that use either live or killed virus, he said.

«The promising results show that personalised cancer vaccines designed to treat skin cancer are safe to use, and that for some patients, they can successfully harness the power of the body's own immune system to kill cancer cells,» Pickworth added.

Rather than using a killed or attenuated virus to develop a vaccine for dengue, de Silva's lab is focusing on «expressing the E protein and attaching it to nanoparticles to induce good immune responses,» Metz said.

What about the cases in which an exterior circumstance such as trauma in late pregnancy leading to premature birth with all the developmental issues those extra fragile babies have, trauma during delivery including the use of forceps or vacuums, or even vaccines post birth that can cause «severe abnormalities» does the same «option» stand - to kill a life or not?

A vaccine of either a live virus or killed virus is used to trigger a response from the immune system.

It is also associated with more vaccine reactions since more stabilizing chemicals are used in a killed vaccine.

It is also associated with more vaccine reactions (since more stabilizing chemicals are used in a killed vaccine).

Vaccination for distemper is also complicated by the fact that regardless of whether a killed or live vaccine is used, a puppy can not develop an immune response if the antibodies to distemper were absorbed from colostrum.

• Avoid any tick - infested areas • Groom your dog daily • Use an appropriate collar that can repel ticks • Apply a spot - on topical product to kill and repel ticks • Talk to your veterinarian about a vaccine that is right for your dog

This can be done by presenting the immune system with weakened germs (polio in people, distemper in dogs), killed or inactivated germs (rabies for dogs, horses, and people, some Lyme disease vaccines for dogs); parts of germs (newer Lyme vaccines for dogs and Rabies vaccines for cats); or similar germs (early use of cowpox to prevent smallpox in people, measles vaccine to prevent distemper in dogs).

Ringworm and chlamydia vaccines introduced for use in cats are advertised as having the safety advantage of a killed product (Dodds, 1997).

There is a new dental vaccine known as the porphyry monas vaccine, which is used to kill off certain types of bacteria that cause the dental diseases in dogs.

It is very significant that in 1985 a change in legislation in the United States occurerd, requiring the use of killed vaccine rather than modified live rabies vaccine in cats.

For the killed rabies vaccines, a booster is required at one year, and thereafter, rabies vaccination should be performed every 3 years using a vaccine approved for 3 - year administration.

Killed and intranasal varieties of these vaccines are not routinely used at the VMTH, but there may be some advantages to the use of non-adjuvanted vaccines that that include two inactivated FCV strains over those that contain one strain.

Puppies are usually given killed rabies vaccine, which uses a dead virus, when they're between 16 weeks and 4 months of age.

This vaccine is known as IMRAB - 3 and is a killed virus vaccine also approved for use in dogs and cats.

Killed vaccines are preferred for use in pregnant cats (and only if absolutely necessary) and in FeLV and / or FIV infected cats, especially those showing evidence of immunosuppression.

However, some diseases are too dangerous to allow to replicate, or for some other reason the organism (whether virus, bacteria, or other parasite) must be killed to use in a vaccine.

Veterinarians now use a killed version of the vaccine that doesn't result in these issues.

There are three types of Lyme disease vaccine, Fort Dodge's vaccine, which introduces dead bacteria that may help increase antibodies; Intervet - Schering - Plough's vaccine, which blocks the protein used to transfer the disease; and Merial's vaccine, which blocks the protein and kills the bacteria.