Sentences with phrase «disease than the vaccine»

Their mathematical model also predicted how the Disneyland outbreak helped push California back from the tipping point by making parents more afraid of the disease than the vaccine.

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Could it be perhaps, as with smallpox vaccine, that finally the vaccination causes more illness than the disease?

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.

In fact, even though they get more vaccines now and are protected against more vaccine - preventable diseases, kids actually get far fewer antigens with each vaccine than ever before.

Most of the diseases our country vaccinates against were declining or eradicated before vaccines came out, and the toxins in vaccines are worse to a baby's body than the disease itself.

Not only does spacing out vaccines leave kids vulnerable to infections for longer than necessary — putting them at risk of exposure to diseases like measles and whooping cough while they wait to be vaccinated — but they also require more frequent visits to a doctor's office where they could catch other diseases as well.

But the risks associated with the vaccines Canadian children receive are much, much less than the risks associated with the diseases themselves.

The risk of unprotected exposure to vaccine - preventable diseases is far higher: for example, more than 90 percent of unvaccinated people exposed to measles will become infected.

Some parents caught in the crossfire between scientists and charlatans have decided, against all reason, that the vaccines are more dangerous than the diseases they protect against.

This is important given that elderly people are particularly susceptible to severe disease following influenza infection, and current vaccines are less efficacious in the elderly than in younger people.

Ames is more likely than other strains of anthrax to cause disease in animals immunised with the standard US anthrax vaccine, which is now being given to US troops.

«Today we see more opportunity than ever to be gained from investing in vaccine research,» says Keith Gottesdiener, vice president for vaccine and infectious disease clinical research with Merck.

However, the BCG vaccine was developed 86 years ago, and TB, with increasing drug resistance, now kills more than 1.5 million people each year, second only to HIV / AIDS as the world's most deadly infectious disease.

Researchers have tested a preliminary form of a vaccine against the disease, which is spread by the bite of the mosquito and kills more than 600,000 people each year.

An internationally - recognized scientist with more than 16 years of experience in translational immunoparasitology research and vaccine development for neglected tropical diseases, Bottazzi's major interest lies in the role of vaccines as control tools integrated into international public and global health programs and initiatives.

University of Queensland researchers have developed a world - first vaccine - style therapeutic approach to treat rheumatoid arthritis, a debilitating disease affecting more than 450,000 people in Australia.

All the while they face one disquieting conundrum: how to eliminate a disease when there's no vaccine, the very drugs you need are failing, and the parasite is evolving faster than people can keep up.

Long considered a conquered childhood disease, pertussis has made a comeback in the U.S., in part because the combination vaccine, DTap, appears less effective than its predecessor, DTP

More than ten years after a study in The Lancet falsely linked autism to the measles, mumps and rubella triple vaccine, evidence of reduced immunization rates and rising incidence of disease are spurring politicians to try to make up lost ground.

As the number of cases of the paralytic disease fall, world health officials have to grapple with a vexing problem: a component of the most widely used polio vaccine now causes more disease than the virus it is supposed to fight

The mosquito - borne disease caused by the Plasmodium parasite kills more than 700,000 people every year, the vast majority of them African children, and no vaccine has ever shown efficacy in trials.

Maldonado and Almeida have each studied Chagas disease for more than 25 years and recently received a patent for the first synthetic Chagas vaccine.

About 41 percent of vaccinated monkeys were completely protected from TB, while 30 percent had less severe disease than unvaccinated monkeys, and another 30 percent showed no benefit from the vaccine.

«With more than 1.7 million people dying globally from TB each year and the rise of strains that are resistant to drug treatment, we need a better way to prevent this disease,» said the study's principal investigator Louis Picker, M.D., who is the associate director of the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and a professor of pathology, molecular microbiology, and immunology in the OHSU School of Medicine.

The vaccine slowed the progression of prion disease in the remaining 70 % of the experimental mice, allowing them to live longer than control mice, which did not receive the vaccine and died within about 200 days following infection.

The effectiveness of the vaccine «wanes more quickly than we expected,» says epidemiologist Stacey Martin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

Less than 3 % of all money devoted to AIDS goes towards developing a vaccine for the disease

Between 1993 and 2003, more than 360 new medicines, biologics, and vaccines have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat more than 150 diseases and medical conditions.

The country has never had easy access to human rabies vaccines, but the disease has soared in recent years: from fewer than 200 cases in the 1990s to 3,302 in 2007, and such official estimates are likely to be an undercount.

The only approved vaccine for dengue may actually increase the incidence of dengue infections requiring hospitalization rather than preventing the disease if health officials aren't careful about where they vaccinate, new public health research published Sept. 2 in Science suggests.

The rate of vaccination for HPV is lower than for other vaccines recommended for adolescents, including tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and meningococcal disease.

«The immune response and the safety so far have put these out there further than the other candidates we have,» says infectious disease specialist Scott Hammer of Columbia University, part of the team designing the VRC vaccine trial.

There has been a fear that the swine flu vaccine, Pandemrix, would increase the risk of autoimmune diseases other than narcolepsy.

In the study, mice given a lethal dose of dengue virus less than a week after receiving the protective DMAb were completely protected from lethal disease — significantly more rapid than vaccine - driven protection, which can take weeks to months to reach peak efficacy levels.

A vaccine would be especially effective in people who have never been exposed to the disease before, or who lost their childhood immunity by leaving malaria - stricken areas, Lanar says, because these groups are more vulnerable to very severe forms of the illness than those who are partially immune.

Before a vaccine became available in 1963, more than 2 million children are estimated to have succumbed to the disease each year; today, more than 100,000 children still die every year because they haven't been adequately vaccinated.

GSK, which has invested more than $ 300 million in RTS, S to date, has pledged to keep the price as low as possible — just manufacturing costs plus a small return to be reinvested in development of second - generation malaria vaccines or vaccines against other neglected tropical diseases.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicdisease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implicDisease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

Some individuals may be better suited than others to work in high - risk job placements during an infectious disease outbreak because they are more likely to have an adequate response to a vaccine, or because their genotype is associated with a lower risk of developing severe infection.

subunit vaccine - a vaccine that uses one or more parts of a disease - causing organism, rather than the whole, to stimulate an immune response.

He has more than 210 published original articles, several book chapters, and holds 101 issued patents for diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics for infectious diseases and cancer.

An experimental vaccine poised to win World Health Organization approval as the first to even partially protect children against malaria works better against one strain of the disease - causing parasite than others.

Vaccines are used to offer protection against a number of diseases and so ensuring their effectiveness is important, and a study published in the journal Vaccine has reported that flu vaccines given in the morning brought about a greater immune (measured by antibody levels) response than those given in the afVaccines are used to offer protection against a number of diseases and so ensuring their effectiveness is important, and a study published in the journal Vaccine has reported that flu vaccines given in the morning brought about a greater immune (measured by antibody levels) response than those given in the afvaccines given in the morning brought about a greater immune (measured by antibody levels) response than those given in the afternoon.

MONDAY, May 15, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- More than half of eligible Americans traveling abroad don't get a measles vaccine, and a key reason is lack of concern about the disease, a new study finds.

For example, as you pointed out, chickenpox is not a scary illness, and in this case I felt that the vaccine presented a greater risk to my child than the disease itself.

In years past, pregnancy was also a contraindication to flu vaccine but, today, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends flu vaccine for women more than 14 weeks pregnant.

Each year, more than 78,000 Americans become infected and about 5,000 die of associated liver diseases, including cancer, yet few know that the CDC recommends the vaccine for all sexually active people who are not in long - term relationships.

This bill is aimed right at the children's reproductive function and that is why tetanus vaccines are required of pubescent middle school children when it is not even a communicable disease and the annual morbidity from tetanus during the 20th century was lower than horse riding accidents.

«In my personal and scientifically backed opinion, the war against disease is a hundred fold more important than the mum - led war against vaccines.