WHAT IS STILL UNKNOWN Prevalence of FISS Published estimates on the prevalence of FISS vary significantly, depending on the study design, numbers of cats in the study, geographic location of the cats, and the fact that injections
other than vaccines are known to induce sarcomas.
Due to the fact that injections
other than vaccines can induce tumors in cats, it becomes reasonable to seek nonsurgical treatment and management options to limit the consequences of surgery.
Not exact matches
In Tennessee, VFC
vaccines are available at all local health departments and through more
than 500
other clinics statewide enrolled in the VFC Program.
This new and expanded reference has data on more
than 1,300 drugs, syndromes,
vaccines, herbals, and many
other substances.
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.
Other recent research has shown that the number of antibodies needed to provide protection is lower
than previously believed, possibly making a
vaccine easier to create.
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
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.
Hiding the
vaccine in goat meat and distributing the goods at night worked better than other options, the team reported in 2016 in V
vaccine in goat meat and distributing the goods at night worked better
than other options, the team reported in 2016 in
VaccineVaccine.
Unlike any
other vaccine designed for human use, this product would be a DNA
vaccine that only contains a particular part of the pathogen (rather
than a
vaccine with an inactivated live or dead virus, for example).
Kelley also worries about the fundamental complexity of
vaccines, which makes it harder to achieve full medical potential
than with
other cancer therapies, he feels.
With H1N1 apparently on the decline, and the damage much less severe
than once feared, many countries are canceling part of their
vaccine orders while
others are trying to resell unused stocks.
«HPV
vaccines could dramatically reduce the incidence of HPV - associated cancers, but uptake of these
vaccines is far lower
than for
other routine childhood and teen immunizations,» said Kevin A. Henry, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia and member of Fox Chase Cancer Center's Cancer Prevention and Control program.
Tested in a U.S. - sponsored trial that involved more
than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand, the
vaccine was administered in six injected doses starting in 2006 to half of the group, and the
other half received a placebo.
To test the nasal
vaccine in adults, researchers at 13 hospitals nationwide, led by Kristin Nichol of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, gave it to more
than 2800 people in fall 1997; 1400
others got a placebo.
However, political conservatives are slightly more likely
than either moderates or liberals to say that parents should be able to decide not to vaccinate their children — though seven - in - ten or more of all three ideology groups support requiring the MMR
vaccine for all schoolchildren because of the potential health risk to
others.
Right now, many parents aren't entirely convinced they would be told if
vaccines were found to pose risks
other than well - known side effects — which makes them fertile territory for the sowers of doubt.
This possibility should not be overlooked, but the more important point is that it is better to move the energy to the
vaccine rather
than the
other way round.
Of more
than 50 therapeutic
vaccine trials so far, this is the first one that has bolstered the immune system in a «meaningful» way, says Steven Deeks, an HIV / AIDS clinician and researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, who is «cautiously optimistic» that the data will inspire
others to study the approach.
«In less
than a year, our group and
others have demonstrated that multiple
vaccine platforms can provide robust protection against Zika virus challenge in animal models.
For one thing, cross-protection from
other viruses rarely offers more
than 70 % protection, says Monath, as a
vaccine would.
The rate of vaccination for HPV is lower
than for
other vaccines recommended for adolescents, including tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis and meningococcal disease.
Against some strains the antibody levels remained higher
than in children who had never received the
vaccine, while against
other strains there was no obvious difference.
In this poll, parents whose child did not get a flu shot this season were three times more likely
than parents of a vaccinated child to say their child's doctor recommends flu
vaccine less strongly
than other vaccines (32 percent versus 9 percent).
Fifty - nine percent of parents whose child did not receive the flu
vaccine this season say it is less important
than other childhood
vaccines — compared to only 14 percent of parents whose child got a flu shot, according to today's report from the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.
This is a complicated concept that is different
than the way we explain the effectiveness of
other childhood
vaccines.
«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.
Kahan and
other social scientists previously have shown that information based on scientific evidence can actually intensify — rather
than moderate — political polarization on contentious topics such as gun control, climate change, fracking, or the safety of certain
vaccines.
The Streptococcus pneumoniae Genome Diversity Project More information about S. pneumoniae, on a site supported by
vaccine manufacturer Wyeth - Lederle List of the more
than 45 microbial genomes so far completed, with links to
others still in progress
There is no evidence that the pertactin - free strains are more harmful
than other strains, and it is not yet clear whether they reduce the effectiveness of the
vaccine in the short or long term.
But each day, recipients of two of the antighrelin
vaccines gained less
than a third of the weight put on by the
other animals, the team reports online this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
New flu tests have been given emergency approval, as it emerges that H7N9 provokes a weaker immune response
than other flu, making
vaccines hard to produce
In a follow - up questionnaire, the third group viewed
vaccines more favorably
than before; the
others did not.
Most
other vaccine trials have tried to use the malaria parasite — rather
than the body's reaction against it — to find possible targets for
vaccines.
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.
The DNA
vaccine for Zika virus is more immunogenic and effective
than other vaccines because it can create memory responses, which inactivated
vaccines with killed viruses fail to produce, Higgs said.
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 implicat
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 implicat
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.
Such models are valuable for the analysis of parameters associated with
vaccine safety, immunogenicity, delivery and protection as NHPs replicate key features of the human immune response more faithfully
than any
other animal model.
Giuliano and scientists in 18 countries studied more
than 14,000 women between the ages of 16 and 26, comparing the effects of Gardasil to
other HPV
vaccines.
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.
They're basically «souped up» and have much more proliferative capacity
than those that that have been elicited with
other therapeutic
vaccines.
It would not be desirable in every case — antibodies are more important in fighting some infections
than others — but it potentially gives
vaccine makers a new tool that could be used to make
vaccines more effective.»
He and
others believe that these cases were associated with infection by the live H1N1 influenza virus itself, rather
than with the Pandemrix
vaccine.
In addition to finding
vaccine candidates, «the most striking feature of N. meningitidis from a genome perspective is that there are more contingency genes
than any
other bacterium or organism studied so far,» says Hervé Tettelin, leader of the N. meningitidis sequencing project at TIGR.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Parents who do not get their children flu shots rate flu
vaccine less favorably
than other childhood
vaccines, a national poll finds.
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.
The best prevention available,
other than abstinence, is believed to be the HPV
vaccine.
Some dog
vaccines are more important
than others, and some, such as the
vaccine for rabies, are even required by law.
A: Veterinarians have traditionally vaccinated annually; however, they are now learning that some
vaccines induce immunity that lasts less
than one year, whereas
others may induce immunity that lasts well beyond one year.