Sentences with phrase «giving killed vaccines»

While giving killed vaccines is commonly done in large animals and food animals, it is not routine for dogs or cats.

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In the 30 years since scientists identified HIV as the cause of AIDS, the virus has proved unbeatable — hiding in the very immune cells that would kill it; reflexively and rapidly mutating; mysteriously persisting in the gut, kidneys, liver, and brain; subverting every vaccine (the best one so far has given only 30 percent protection); and roaring back to life almost the moment drugs are stopped.

If a highly contagious virus with a 50 per cent kill rate got loose «a catastrophe would result», he adds, especially given the world's slow and limited ability to make vaccine.

Vaccination can be given in a nasal form or in an injection (either modified live or killed virus vaccine) given in the right shoulder area.

All currently available vaccines are inactivated (killed) virus products and require two doses given 2 - 4 weeks apart.

Vaccines are something we give our dogs with a needle to keep them from getting sick with diseases like Parvovirus (like a very bad stomach flu that kills most puppies that get it).

After the initial inoculation, the killed rabies vaccine need only be given to adult dogs every three years for effectiveness, although some states require that it be given annually.

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

Killed vaccines may be given during pregnancy though, as a general rule, it is best not to give any medical treatments during pregnancy if it can be avoided.