Sentences with phrase «protection than a vaccine»

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

A well conducted study published in the Italian medical journals in June 2007 demonstrated that the daily intake of Colostrum can be 3x more effective than the flu vaccine for providing protection.

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.

Children ages six months to two years can receive an injectable flu vaccine, but the nasal spray vaccine is recommended in children between the ages of two and eight because it is believed to give better protection than the shot.

But if the H3N2 strain in circulation differs substantially from the one used to make the vaccine, the vaccine may offer less protection, and more people will get sick than usual.

The method is much less cumbersome than dealing with chicken eggs, and because the vaccine is so easy to produce, the company intends to use 135 micrograms of hemagglutinin in each dose of vaccine — 3 times higher than current flu vaccines — in hopes of getting better protection.

«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 relatively low degree of protection found in the Colombian trials might be partly explained, says Patarroyo, by problems with the formulation of the vaccine at the time it was made, more than two years ago.

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.

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.

10 of 19 (53 %) placentas and 11 of 19 (58 %) fetal heads from mice who received Moderna's Zika mRNA vaccine had viral RNA levels at the limit of detection of the assay, suggesting virtually complete protection, and the remainder had substantially lower levels than those detected in samples from mice in the placebo cohort.

The recent increase in cases of whooping cough among teenagers in the US suggests that the protection conferred by the acellular Bordetella pertussis vaccine (aP) that became standard in the mid 1990s is of shorter duration than that conferred by the whole - bacteria formulation (wP) used since the 1950s.

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.

A new generation of Vi typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs), licensed for use in young children and expected to provide longer lasting protection than previous vaccines, are now available.

Cats who are allowed to venture outdoors must have a different vaccine and parasite protection program than those who remain indoors at all times.

A vaccine is available but is not widely recommended because the disease is self - limiting and protection is limited to no more than six months following inoculation.

Tests show that Fel - O - Vax Lv - K provides better protection than other FeLV vaccines.

Notably, immunogenicity and protection efficacy conferred by the NS1 mutant H3N8 CIVs was better than that observed with a CIV H3N8 inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV).

Moreover, a single intranasal immunization dose showed higher immunogenicity and protection than that conferred with a commercial inactivated vaccine, making our live - attenuated CIV an excellent vaccine candidate for the prevention and control of CIV in dogs.

Research suggests the vaccine may offer protection for more than three years, but most vets recommend a booster shot once a year to ensure your dog is safe, depending on local risk factors.

The nasal mist and oral vaccine also provide protection to the animal sooner than the injection does.

The «localized immunity» the dog receives via the intranasal vaccine appears to offer better protection than the shot.

A dog who is vaccinated with this vaccine receives well less than one year of inadequate protection but is placed at great risk for vaccine - related illness.

They can be safely given to puppies much earlier than vaccines and in fact the mother can be treated before giving birth thus giving her puppies protection from the moment they are born.

These forms of the vaccine tend to provide dogs protection against kennel cough sooner than the injected product.

There is not likely to be any harm other than not getting adequate protection from the vaccine.

Some puppies can respond at an earlier age than others; therefore start early and repeat the vaccines to give protection for all individuals as quickly as possible.

Bordetella: One intra-nasal vaccine should be given no earlier than 12 weeks of age to «at risk» dogs (those with active social contact, boarding, showing, or impaired respiratory function), with a booster being administered one year later then annually if risk of exposure or boarding (protection generally lasts 6 - 12 months).

This allows local immunity to develop on the mucous membranes of the nose, throat, and windpipe where the infectious agents first attack and provides more rapid protection against infection than the injectable vaccine.

Although the flu vaccine isn't perfect, it's far better than no protection at all.