Sentences with phrase «vaccines against diseases such»

Vaccines against diseases such as polio and tetanus currently are given in several small doses spaced weeks or months apart.

Not exact matches

FACT: Vaccines begin at 2 months of age to protect babies as early in life as possible against diseases that can make them very sick (such as pertussis).

Public Health Thank You Day 2013 honors all those health heroes who keep our drinking water safe and air clean, administer vaccines, track and investigate infections, educate residents with chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes, provide cancer screening services, administer pest control programs and protect us against imminent threats to our health such as influenza, foodborne illnesses and natural disasters.

Whether those refusing the vaccine have helped fuel the current pertussis epidemic is uncertain, but their decisions have created a public health tinderbox: in some Bay Area schools, 40 percent or more of the kids are not vaccinated, leaving them unprotected against pertussis and other preventable diseases, such as measles.

Worse still, the results suggest it would be a mistake to use adenovirus - based vaccines against other diseases, such as malaria or tuberculosis, in areas where HIV is common.

But scientific and economic obstacles have stymied the development of effective vaccines against many of the developing world's most deadly diseases, such as malaria and HIV as well as pneumococcus, the leading vaccine - preventable killer of children under the age of five.

Vaccines made of protein or sugar fragments, also known as subunit vaccines, have been successful against a few diseases, such as hepatitis and dipVaccines made of protein or sugar fragments, also known as subunit vaccines, have been successful against a few diseases, such as hepatitis and dipvaccines, have been successful against a few diseases, such as hepatitis and diphtheria.

Kang's primary research focuses on designing and developing effective vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus and RSV, but he partnered with a university and research institutes in South Korea that wanted international collaborative projects to study if ginseng can be used to improve health and protect against disease because of the potential benefit in fighting these viruses.

But as researchers turn to diseases that are more difficult to protect against, such as malaria or HIV, they are setting their sights lower, aiming for vaccines that prevent severe disease but not infection.

There are four strains circulating in the world, and antibodies for each of the strains interact with each other in such a way that if a vaccine does not protect against all forms simultaneously, it could backfire and put a patient at risk of severe disease if exposed to the other types.

The study relates to a particular type of vaccine (killed) against a particular virus, influenza, though the findings might hold true for other killed vaccines and for those vaccines consisting only of proteins produced by GM in bacteria, yeast or insect cells, against diseases such as hepatitis B (HBV) and human papilloma virus (HPV, the causative agent of cervical cancer).

Community health centers that serve millions of poor children are facing shortages of vaccines against common childhood diseases such as measles, mumps, and rubella, a new report by the Children's Defense Fund concludes.

There are canine vaccines that are required by law, vaccines that provide immunity for widely spread infectious diseases and optional vaccines (such as those against lyme disease or leptospirosis).

Vaccinations can be put into two categories: core vaccines, used to protect horses against diseases that every horse is at risk of contracting (such as West Nile virus, Eastern and Western encephalitis, tetanus and rabies), and risk - based vaccines.

Remember, vaccines are highly important as they protect animals against deadly diseases such as parvovirus and Rabies

Although a vaccine is available to protect dogs against Lyme disease, no such vaccine has been developed for cats.

For kittens less than 4 months old, receiving the recommended 3 series of vaccines will help protect them against infectious diseases such as feline distemper, feline herpesvirus, feline calicivirus and feline leukemia.

Vaccines are so effective at preventing disease, some states actually require dogs be vaccinated against specific diseases, such as rabies.

Vaccines were causing the animals» immune system to turn against their own tissues, resulting in potentially fatal diseases such as autoimmune hemolytic anemia in dogs (AIHA).

Preventive care can include vaccine series to protect against such dangerous diseases as distemper and rabies.

Since the whole point of vaccinations is to provide protection against disease, it doesn't make any sense to time vaccines such that immunity may not be achieved.