Sentences with phrase «vaccine lasts a person»

If a vaccine lasts a person for a lifetime, why do I have to vaccinate my pet annually?

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Ebola has infected 28,000 people and killed 11,000 of those in the last 20 months, according to a statement from Gavi, a global public - private partnership that works to get new vaccines to those who need them.
The company first offered this UberHEALTH option two years ago, administering flu shots in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. Uber did it again last year, offering vaccines in more than 35 cities — they cost $ 10, but up to 10 people could be vaccinated with each request.
People in regions in which cholera is prevalent, such as Africa, do not use much vaccine as the immunity the vaccines elicit does not last long.
An interdisciplinary team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Profectus BioSciences, Inc. has developed a quick - acting vaccine that is both safe and effective with a single dose against the Ebola strain that killed thousands of people in West Africa last year.
Legros helped organise the first emergency use of the vaccine last year, in four camps of people displaced by fighting in South Sudan.
Vaccination for several years after the «last» polio case is recorded will probably be necessary, the WHO says, to protect people from reverted «vaccine virus».
In another development, doctors announced last week that, for the first time, an experimental vaccine appears to protect some people against the H5N1 avian flu (SN: 9/10/05, p. 171: When Flu Flies the Coop).
We have been wanting to write about the Dengue vaccine mess since last year but for obvious lack of knowledge or expertise on the matter, we decided to hold our piece and waited for people who can be considered authorities on this serious issue to address it.
As Seth Berkeley — the president of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative — described it during an inaugural celebration last month, it's essentially match.com for connecting scientists and people in developing countries with challenges that could be surmounted better with some brainstorming.
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