Sentences with phrase «children against vaccine»

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This is a group of people who refuse to inoculate their children against infectious diseases that ran rampant before vaccines were introduced, putting not only their own children at risk but also others who are too young or too ill to be vaccinated.

Mormon volunteers in Ghana, for example, arranged for 1.5 million text messages to be sent to fellow citizens in support of the country's launch of vaccines against pneumonia and rotavirus, two diseases that together claim the lives of more than 2 million children around the world every year.

The same vaccine for cholera is also effective against ETEC, and certain vaccines are available for children as young as two.

36 doses of 10 vaccines before starting kindergarten that protect infants and children against 14 vaccine - preventable diseases

Children who are 6 to 32 weeks old can be vaccinated against the rotavirus with a vaccine called Rotateq.

Read on to learn what vaccines your child needs to receive at different times of their life and what diseases all these vaccines immunize against and most importantly, baby vaccination schedule.

Children in typhoon - hit Tacloban, Philippines, receive vaccines against measles, polio 26 November 2013

Combination vaccines: You can limit the number of jabs your baby receives by requesting combination vaccines, which protect your child against multiple diseases with a single shot.

Thousands of deaths could be averted through a combined prevention and treatment strategy — interventions such as improved mother and child nutrition, optimal breastfeeding practices; Oral Rehydration Therapy [ORT]; new low - osmolarity formulations of ORS; incorporating rotavirus vaccines; zinc supplementation during diarrhoea episodes; immunizing all children against measles; appropriate drug therapy; increased access to safe clean water and sanitation facilities and improved personal and domestic hygiene, including keeping food and water clean and washing hands before touching food.

This vaccine protects children against pertussis, also known as whopping cough, which wreaks havoc on the respiratory mucus membrane.

Breastfeeding can provide some protection against flu for infants, including children younger than 6 months who can not receive the flu vaccine.

Make sure your child gets the MMR vaccine, which helps protect against measles, mumps, and rubella.

The Hib vaccine protects your child against a severe bacterial infection that mostly affects babies and children under 5 years old.

Find out how the MMR vaccine can protect your child against measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles), and the recommended i...

Learn how the hepatitis B vaccine protects your child against liver disease and liver cancer, and the immunization schedule for...

Find out how the polio vaccine can protect your child against a sometimes devastating virus, and the recommended immunization s...

The MMR vaccine protects your child against three viruses: measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles).

You can also protect your child against chicken pox with the MMRV vaccine.

Even vaccines to immunize our children against the six killer childhood diseases has not been unavailable for the past three months.

MMR vaccine is the safest way to protect children against measles, mumps and rubella.

CHICKENPOX COMMON AMONG CHILDREN DESPITE VACCINE The highly contagious varicella - zoster virus (VZV), commonly known as chickenpox, often affects children under age 12 and sometimes even after they have been vaccinated against the disease, Oneida County Health Department officials warned today following reports of an outbreak in HerkimerCHILDREN DESPITE VACCINE The highly contagious varicella - zoster virus (VZV), commonly known as chickenpox, often affects children under age 12 and sometimes even after they have been vaccinated against the disease, Oneida County Health Department officials warned today following reports of an outbreak in Herkimerchildren under age 12 and sometimes even after they have been vaccinated against the disease, Oneida County Health Department officials warned today following reports of an outbreak in Herkimer County.

Those trials will test the safety and feasibility of giving children four doses of the vaccine, which provides only partial protection against the disease.

A vaccine against rotavirus, a highly contagious bug that causes life - threatening diarrhea in young children, was deemed safe and effective by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Friday.

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

Babies inoculated with a commonly used five - in - one vaccine to protect against a range of potentially lethal childhood diseases face up to a six-fold increased risk of fever - associated seizures on the day they are vaccinated, according to a study of nearly 380,000 Danish children.

Adjuvanted vaccines in particular were found to be more effective in children than in adults against laboratory confirmed illness (88 per cent in children versus 40 per cent in adults) and hospitalisation (86 per cent in children versus 48 per cent in adults).

Babies and young children often get the new vaccine to protect against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough).

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers say a new candidate vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) made with a weakened version of the virus shows great promise at fighting the disease, the leading cause of hospitalization for children under the age of one in the U.S.

There is currently no vaccine against RSV, which causes an estimated 66,000 to 199,000 deaths worldwide each year, and annual wintertime epidemics of respiratory illness in U.S. children.

«Vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus shows promise in early trial: Researchers describe a new approach to developing RSV vaccines, reporting promising early results in young children.»

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.

As Scientific American reported earlier this month, officials from Italy, the U.K., Canada, Norway and Russia met in Rome on February 9, where they announced that their governments would commit the funds for vaccines against pneumococcus, which causes pneumonia and meningitis that kill up to a million children every year.

In addition to protecting against these diseases, previous studies suggest that these routine vaccines may provide other benefits that help to reduce child mortality.

«Measles vaccine increases child survival beyond protecting against measles: New study shows all - cause mortality is significantly lower when a child's most recent immunization is a measles vaccine.»

Despite this, some parents are refusing to allow their children to be vaccinated out of fear that certain vaccines cause autism, or that combined vaccines against several diseases overload the immune system.

In August, Berkley, who founded and heads the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), will take over the GAVI Alliance, another public - private partnership focused on vaccines but with the broader agenda of immunizing children in poor countries against many diseases.

In an effort to provide broad protection against meningitis, the researchers are now developing a vaccine that would prevent the bacteria from recognizing the laminin receptor, according to Elaine Tuomanen, a leader of the study and a physician at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

By giving children an inactivated vaccine that protects against all three subtypes of polio, health workers hope to gradually stamp out vaccine - derived outbreaks.

The injectable vaccine is thought to offer better protection against polio infection in children with diarrhea, which is common in the area.

Only by getting the complete childhood series will these children grow into adults who will maintain strong vaccine - mediated protection against these important diseases.»

A study of 4CMenB, a new vaccine to protect against meningitis B bacteria (which can cause potentially fatal bacterial meningitis in children), shows that waning immunity induced by infant vaccination can be overcome by a booster dose at 40 months of age, according to a clinical trial published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

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The work, directed by researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., found that some study participants who reported receiving flu vaccines had a strong immune response not only against the seasonal H3N2 flu strain from 2010, when blood samples were collected for analysis, but also against flu subtypes never included in any vaccine formulation.

However, a new study of children from Sweden and Finland shows that the vaccine increased neither the risk of developing autoantibodies against insulin - producing beta cells nor the occurrence of type 1 diabetes.

That finding supports the idea that the measles vaccine benefits children not just because it prevents them from getting measles, but also because it provides protection against the other diseases.

Researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Medical Center studied the impact of text message reminders for the second dose of influenza vaccine required for many young children to protect them against the virus.

Parents should ensure their children are fully protected against measles, mumps and rubella with two doses of the MMR vaccine to ensure protection against this potentially fatal disease.

«Currently, there is a lot of focus on the use of antibodies transferred passively or through a vaccine to prevent infection in infants, however this study cautions against that and suggests that broadly neutralizing antibodies may actually aid in enhancing transmission from mother to child,» added Sagar, an attending physician in infectious diseases at Boston Medical Center.

The story of development of vaccines against rubella and other childhood diseases in the 1960s pits a daring young biologist against his world - famous boss, testing that used prisoners, intellectually disabled children, and other disenfranchised subjects, political roadblocks that nearly derailed the research, and other elements of high drama.

We could be much closer to the development of a vaccine against RSV, the most important viral cause of pneumonia and wheezing illness in infants and young children all over the world.