Sentences with phrase «vaccine protects against viruses»

This combination vaccine protects against viruses that cause life - threatening respiratory and gastrointestinal issues.

This combination vaccine protects against viruses that cause life - threatening neurologic, respiratory and gastrointestinal issues.

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.

Not exact matches

After all, vaccines are effective because they contain weak traces of the viruses they protect against.

Find out how the polio vaccine can protect your child against a sometimes devastating virus, and the recommended immunization s...

The MMR vaccine protects your child against three viruses: measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles).

The 2012 - 2013 flu vaccine will protect against the three flu viruses that experts predicted will be the most common during this year's flu season.

The flu vaccine can protect against several strains of the flu virus.

Flu vaccines protect against three or four viruses (depending upon the type of vaccine you receive).

Even unvaccinated people who have already gotten the flu still benefit from vaccination since the vaccine protects against 3 different flu viruses.

Flu vaccines protect against three or four viruses (depending upon the type of vaccine you receive) and the vaccine is readily available in Erie County physicians» offices, pharmacies and other community sites.

These antibodies protect against certain strains of influenza virus in the vaccine, but may not provide thorough protection against other strains of flu that may be present.

It renders the virus incapable of causing an infection but still provokes the immune response that will protect vaccine recipients against future infections.

The method is relatively new, but far bacteria - based vaccines have proven effective: A seasonal flu vaccine produced by VaxInnate successfully protected humans in clinical trials, and the company's recently tested swine flu vaccine immunized mice against the virus.

«The former ISU scientist is accused of faking experiment results to make it look like a vaccine was protecting rabbits against the AIDS virus.

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.

One reason vaccines using weakened flu virus are not used in the elderly is that they have been exposed to many strains of flu virus over the years and have more antibodies in the nasal tract, which can inhibit the weakened flu virus from infecting and stimulating the immune response necessary to protect against the virus.

Studies have shown that flu vaccines work better at protecting against influenza B or influenza A H1N1 viruses than influenza A H3N2.

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.

The first live - attenuated Zika vaccine still in the development stage completely protected mice against the virus after a single vaccination dose, according to new research from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Instituto Evandro Chagas at the Ministry of Health in Brazil.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists report that a single dose of an experimental Ebola virus (EBOV) vaccine completely protects cynomolgus macaques against the current EBOV outbreak strain, EBOV - Makona, when given at least seven days before exposure, and partially protects them if given three days prior.

«For the current H3N2, we don't have such studies, so I can't tell you right now the degree the current seasonal vaccine will protect against the H3N2 virus,» Fukuda says.

But this information is vital for scientists who are trying to design vaccines to protect against sexual transmission because inside cells, the virus may go undetected by the immune system.

Vaccines traditionally protect against illness by stimulating antibodies to block viruses.

The reliably high percentage of those who develop viremia following exposure to this challenge virus is another advantage — when most or all volunteers develop viremia or other signs of infection, clinical trials can enroll relatively small numbers of people but still achieve answers to such questions as whether a candidate vaccine protects against infection, she noted.

Researchers around the world, including at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), are pursuing a «universal» flu vaccine, one that would protect against most or all seasonal and pandemic strains of the flu virus.

But for the first time we have evidence that a lethal virus has developed from vaccines that were meant to protect against it.

Kang's primary research focuses on designing and developing effective vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus and RSV, but he partnered with a university and research institutes in South Korea that wanted international collaborative projects to study if ginseng can be used to improve health and protect against disease because of the potential benefit in fighting these viruses.

The vaccine protects against four common strains of the virus, considered the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States.

LONDON (Reuters)-- Researchers announced the launch of two big studies in Africa on Thursday to test a new HIV vaccine and a long - acting injectable drug, fuelling hopes for better ways to protect against the virus that causes AIDS.

On the good news front, many researchers had worried that a vaccine against the novel H1N1 virus would require two doses to build substantial immunity — which would mean further delays in the time required to protect the population as well as twice as much product.

A vaccine that protects against the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) has been shown to be effective in camels, a new study finds.

Oral polio vaccination will continue, but it will use a vaccine that protects against just the two other types of polio virus that are still circulating in their wild form in Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

In these phase 2 and phase 3 trials, thousands of people who are at risk of contracting the virus, such as health workers, will receive the vaccine to determine whether it can protect against infection.

This result, effectively a method for blocking the spread of alphaviruses between cells, is one that could eventually lead to a single vaccine that protects against multiple viruses.

HPV vaccination could help protect against oral HPV infections, and it can prevent a range of cancers associated with the HPV virus, so it's a good idea to get the vaccine if you are offered it.»

Researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia University Medical Center studied the impact of text message reminders for the second dose of influenza vaccine required for many young children to protect them against the virus.

«Right now, there is no vaccine to protect against the H7N9 virus, and our findings could guide efforts to develop effective vaccine strategies,» Sasisekharan says.

The vaccine proved safe, and it protected against three of the four dengue virus variants, or serotypes — but surprisingly, it provided no protection against the fourth.

The vaccines protect against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, which kills almost a quarter of a million women worldwide each year.

ohnson & Johnson will soon start testing a vaccine the world badly needs — one that protects against the worst strains of Ebola and its very dangerous cousin, the Marburg virus.

Such cross-protection is the case with cowpox and smallpox, and a vaccine currently in use for Japanese encephalitis protects some animals against the closely related West Nile virus.

But because these human strains frequently mutate to adapt to their new environment in eggs, the resulting vaccine is often an imperfect match to the actual virus that it is supposed to protect against.

Those antibodies could be used to develop vaccines to protect against Zika, as well as therapies to treat the virus, according to the study, which was a collaboration between researchers at UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC School of Medicine.

The current vaccine only protects against one strain of the virus and no effective anti-viral medications exist for people who are already infected.

The two big ideas Ying Kai Chan is tackling in science — reducing the harmful side effects of gene therapy and developing better vaccines to protect against viruses — might seem wildly different from one another.

Publication in Cell Demonstrates Moderna's Zika mRNA Vaccine Prevents In Utero Transmission of Zika Virus in Mice, Protects Against Zika - Related Congenital Damage

As vaccine recipients, we usually think only of the ability of the vaccine to protect us against a specific disease, but here the effects on the whole population and on the influenza virus itself are being considered.

Scientists have also been making strides toward developing a vaccine to protect against the Zika virus and identifying molecules that can potentially lead to an anti-Zika drug.

A majority of people in the U.S. said that they would be likely to get a vaccine to protect them against Zika virus if it were available, according to the latest APPC survey, No vaccine exists yet.