Sentences with phrase «of vaccines against diseases»

He was chief of Microbiology and Immunology and of Vaccine Research and Development at the World Health Organization and was deeply involved in the coordination of research aiming at the development of vaccines against diseases of major importance.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Inovio's vaccine against HPV is currently in Phase II clinical studies, and Kim says «about 50 percent» of the subjects in that trial are defeating 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.

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

By 2008, kids were protected against 14 vaccine - preventable diseases by getting up to 36 doses of 10 vaccines before starting kindergarten — three doses of HepB, three doses of Rotavirus, five doses of DTaP, three or four doses of Hib, four doses of Prevnar 7, four doses of IPV, two doses of MMR, two doses of chicken pox, two doses of hepatitis A, and six to seven doses of the flu vaccine.

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.

Your Baby's Best Shot: Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives by Stacy Mintzer Herlihy and E. Allison Hagood gives you all of the information about vaccines you need to help you with «the easiest parenting decision you'll ever make» — to get your kids vaccinated and protected against vaccine - preventable dVaccines Are Safe and Save Lives by Stacy Mintzer Herlihy and E. Allison Hagood gives you all of the information about vaccines you need to help you with «the easiest parenting decision you'll ever make» — to get your kids vaccinated and protected against vaccine - preventable dvaccines you need to help you with «the easiest parenting decision you'll ever make» — to get your kids vaccinated and protected against vaccine - preventable diseases.

But vaccines are designed to provide protection against serious diseases and many people consider them the most important part of well - baby checkups.

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.

In fact, there are about 90 diseases related to pneumococcal disease, and most babies are vaccinated against 13 of them (known as the PV13 vaccine).

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).

Hepatitis B Vaccine: A 3 or 4 dose vaccination recommended for all babies against the transmission of this potentially life - threatening disease, recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventiondisease, recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionDisease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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.

A healthy infant is less likely to die of SIDS in addition to the diseases that the vaccines are protecting against.

Find out how the pneumococcal vaccine protects young kids against some of the worst childhood diseases, including meningitis an...

He's slammed the government for its decision to celebrate the birth of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), a political movement that begun the struggle for Ghana's independence from British rule, at a time the country has run out of stock of vaccines against the six killer diseases.

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 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.

The company has begun human testing of its mRNA drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer, and for vaccines against the flu, Zika, and chikungunya viruses.

They hope to create a human model that could help speed up the development of new drugs and vaccines against the disease, which sickens millions of people and kills thousands each year.

Childhood Vaccines • In San Francisco's Bay Area schools at least 40 % of kids are not vaccinated, leaving them unprotected against whooping cough, measles and other preventable disease — part of a nationwide trend toward parents withholding vaccinations.

As a result of the backlash against vaccines, cases of the virtually eliminated measles are on the rise, as are outbreaks of other vaccine - preventable diseases.

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.

After its latest battle with H1N1, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee recommended in February that everyone six months and older get the annual vaccine, a step that should improve immunity against future pandemics as well as seasonal cycles of the flu.

Although much of that money goes to stockpiling vaccines and improving disease surveillance and information exchange, part of it pays for research into improved vaccines and other «countermeasures» against smallpox, anthrax, and botulinum toxin.

Vaccines against one subtype won't protect you against the others, says Harold Margolis, head of the dengue branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Dr. David Cavanagh, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «There is a desperate need for an effective vaccine, which can be made easily in large quantities, to protect against this devastating disease.

VaxInnate is testing a universal flu vaccine that would work against all strains of the disease by using a Toll - like receptor (TLR) technology platform.

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.

Remarkably, the researchers also found that blocking this protein in mice protected them from the lethal effects of dengue virus infection, an important finding given that an effective vaccine against dengue has remained elusive, partly because there are four serotypes of the virus that cause disease.

Previous infection with one serotype of dengue, or protection against just one serotype, can lead to more severe disease if a person contracts other serotypes, so it's vital that vaccines are available that specifically target all four strains.

A team led by Ron Dagan, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Soroka University Medical Center in Beer - Sheva, Israel, wanted to know if a new pneumococcal vaccine based on tetanus toxoid would change infants» immune responses to the standard regimen of vaccines, including those for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP), and Haemophilus influenzae type B, which protects against meningitis.

She found that the weakened sporozoites triggered immunity against malaria instead of the disease, paving the way for a potential vaccine.

Wherever the answer lies, the insights could help in the development of vaccines against other diseases that, like HIV, don't easily succumb to immune attack and that kill millions of people.

Despite years of trying, scientists still haven't created an HIV vaccine that can protect people against the virus, says Alan Aderem, a biologist at the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle.

With that in mind, Jos Ribeiro of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and colleagues decided to try developing a vaccine against leishmaniasis.

In the battle against multidrug resistance, the ideal way of preventing disease is a vaccine, and having a structure of BamE opens the door to a structural vaccinology approach.»

This includes the development of the HPV - based vaccines now licensed to GlaxoSmithKline and Merck for the protection of women against this disease.

«We observed rapid and durable protective immunity without adverse events, and so we think this candidate vaccine represents a promising strategy for the global fight against Zika virus,» said senior author Drew Weissman, MD, PhD, a professor of Infectious Disease at Penn. «We hope to start clinical trials in 12 to 18 months.»

The experts attending the Bronx Zoo - hosted Vaccines for Conservation: Exploring the Feasibility of Protecting Wild Tigers and Other Endangered Carnivores Against Distemper recommend the following «Top 5» actions aimed at protecting the world's wild carnivores of conservation concern from distemper and other infectious diseases:

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.

But when weighing the risks of encountering life - threatening disease against the benefits of receiving a vaccine there's no contest.

«Not only does it add significant weight to the growing body of evidence that PCV prevents disease, but it suggests that vaccines may have a role to play in the fight against antibiotic resistance.»

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.

«This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal with sudden outbreaks or make rapid modifications and improvements,» says Daniel Anderson, an associate professor in MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).

Large - scale use of vaccine aims to break stalemate against the disease by protecting people most at risk.

One of the vaccines, which is based on a recombinant vesicular stomatitis virus expressing the glycoprotein of the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus (VSV - ZEBOV), was recently shown to be extremely effective with 100 per cent efficacy against the lethal Ebola virus disease in WHO - funded studies carried out in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

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.