Sentences with phrase «vaccine against whooping cough»

The key ingredient in the existing vaccine against whooping cough, or pertussis, is an inactive form of pertussis toxin.

Babies usually get their first vaccine against whooping cough at 2 months of age.

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The Hep B vaccine (or HBV) protects against the virus that causes hepatitis B; the DTaP vaccine protects against the viruses that cause diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (whooping cough); the PCV (pneumococcal vaccine) protects against the cause of bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, and ear infections; the Hib vaccine protects against Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria (which can also cause bacterial meningitis, pneumonia, or epiglottitis); and the rotavirus oral vaccine protects against a virus that causes the stomach flu.

Today's childhood vaccines protect against serious and potentially life - threatening diseases, including polio, measles, whooping cough, and chickenpox.

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.

The latest study is the most thorough large - scale study to date of the risk of febrile seizures following inoculation with the DTaP - IPV - Hib vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), as well as polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b.

Protection against the disease pertussis, or whooping cough, doesn't appear to be as strong with the currently administered vaccine when compared with the older version administered up until the 1990s, according to a new study in Pediatrics.

I thought about that shift to the majestic plural as we got our Tdap shot in our third trimester.The Tdap vaccine protects against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, or whooping cough.

Babies and young children often get the new vaccine to protect against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough).

Vaccination rates for a critical booster shot tripled after clinics began using electronic prompts alerting them of patients needing the Tdap vaccine that protects against tetanus, diptheria, and whooping cough, according to a new study from the University of Michigan Health System.

The Tdap vaccine protects against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis, or whooping cough.

The recent outbreaks of whooping cough in the state have prompted North Carolina health officials to make the vaccines against the disease available for free to anyone age 7 and older, regardless of whether they have health insurance.

Certain vaccines are actually recommended during pregnancy: the Tdap vaccine (tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis), which helps protect against whooping cough, as well as the flu shot.

Bordetella (Kennel Cough): This vaccine is given to dogs to protect against upper - respiratory infections, especially kennel cough (sort of like Whooping Cough in humCough): This vaccine is given to dogs to protect against upper - respiratory infections, especially kennel cough (sort of like Whooping Cough in humcough (sort of like Whooping Cough in humCough in humans).