Sentences with phrase «vaccines given as»

Bathing should be delayed for 24 hours, vitamin K and vaccines given as per national guidelines, temperature monitored, and complications identified and managed.

The initial rabies vaccine given as a puppy or kitten will be repeated 1 year later, and thereafter every 3 years.

Not exact matches

Post-exposure protocol includes local wound treatment, and a shot given on day 0 with as much as possible in and around the wound, and then and four doses of rabies vaccine given on days 0, 3, 7 and 14.

We didn't give our daughter the vaccine before our trips to Cuba and Mexico with her, as my Dr. didn't feel it was necessary.

The second dose of the chickenpox vaccine can be given any time, as long as it is at least three months after the first dose, but it is typically given when kids are 4 to 6 years old, just before they start kindergarten.

Given questions about how long the vaccine is effective for, she questioned the efficacy of giving shots to girls as young as 11 years old in parts of the world (such as the U.S.) where women regularly undergo safety Pap screening repeatedly over their lifetimes, saying that the chances of their contracting cervical cancer may be less than the «small» risks associated with the vaccine.

In countries such as China and Indonesia, where large quantities of peanuts are eaten, but the Hib vaccine is not routinely given, peanut allergies are almost non-existent.

maybe Japan also has lower SIDS rates as a result of changing the age of first vaccination from 2 months to 12 months, SIDS is defined as sudden unexplained infant death from age 2 months (when first vaccine usually given) to 1 year

The IG and the first dose of the vaccine is given as soon as possible.

Giving kids vaccines is the absolute, unambiguous standard of care, as easy an answer as I will ever be able to offer.

However, some of the vaccines given, such as one for hepatitis, a disease contracted from intravenous needle use and intercourse, are ones that babies are not at high risk of contracting.

This is when fire retardants and various chemicals started being used on mattresses and when the VACCINES given to infants started to increase (as they still are today!)

Should you give your baby the vaccine (including both reasons for and against, as well as travel considerations)

Our midwife recommended Dr. W as someone friendly to natural remedies, reluctant to give antibiotics, and friendly to alternative vaccine schedules.

Vaccines against diseases such as polio and tetanus currently are given in several small doses spaced weeks or months apart.

«What that suggests is that this approach really gives us broad spectrum protection, and could serve as a basis for an effective pre-pandemic vaccine.»

The responses of those given the quadrivalent vaccine were the same as those of volunteers who received the vaccine with two strains of A and the strain of B that matched the B strain in the 2012 - 2013 seasonal flu trivalent vaccine.

This observation gives us additional confidence that this vaccine would provide as much protection as natural infection.»

«CD55 also gives us a hook with which to search for new parasite proteins important for invasion, which could serve as vaccine targets.»

When this was given to rabbits, the antibodies they made protected other rabbits against the spider venom almost as well as antibodies from horses exposed to the real thing (Vaccine, doi.org/mg3).

In particular, child mortality was shown to be lower when the measles vaccine came after the third diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP3) vaccination, as recommend by the WHO, compared to before DTP or given together with DTP.

If a vaccine is to protect the intestines and other mucous membranes in the body, it also needs to be given through the mucosa, for example as a nasal spray or a liquid that is drunk.

While the effect of vaccines was not analyzed as part of this study, Rzhetsky notes that the geographic clustering of autism and ID rates is evidence that if vaccines have a role, it's a very weak one as vaccinations are given uniformly across the US.

Current vaccines, which require experts to pick the flu strains that they believe are going to circulate in a given year, are typically 40 to 70 percent effective in the U.S., though in some years protection is as low as 20 percent.

«But it is a meaningful approach in protein design that could be given as a vaccine so that it triggers an immune response.»

A vaccine originally intended to prevent cervical cancer in girls should be given to boys as well, an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today (Oct. 25).

In the 30 years since scientists identified HIV as the cause of AIDS, the virus has proved unbeatable — hiding in the very immune cells that would kill it; reflexively and rapidly mutating; mysteriously persisting in the gut, kidneys, liver, and brain; subverting every vaccine (the best one so far has given only 30 percent protection); and roaring back to life almost the moment drugs are stopped.

«Although the vast majority of cases prevented by the vaccine would not have progressed to cervical cancer, given the burden of cervical dysplasia on the emotional and physical well - being of girls as well as on the health - care system, these early reductions are nevertheless of great importance,» says Dr. Lévesque.

But a new animal study shows that the vaccine performs much better when given intravenously instead of into the skin, as it was in the clinical trial.

An Australian study recently reported that kids who were given the acellular vaccine as infants were more than three times as likely to get pertussis between 2009 and 2011 than were those who received the whole - cell version.

The vaccine would also be given to others involved in the outbreak, such as cleaners, ambulance drivers, or burial teams, Farrar says.

As Read first argued in a Nature paper 14 years ago, by keeping their hosts alive, such «imperfect» or «leaky» vaccines could give deadlier pathogens an edge, allowing them to spread when they would normally burn out quickly.

If it proves as effective in people as it is in mice, a vaccine could one day be given to cancer patients after surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy to prevent tumors from regrowing.

PANVAC - V, which uses the same virus as the smallpox vaccine, is a live but weakened vaccinia vaccine (meaning the virus can still multiply) that is given in the arm.

The vaccines were given as part of China's state - regulated mandatory vaccination program, but were voluntary commercial vaccines for illnesses such as influenza, hepatitis B, and rabies.

Countries which had standing vaccine orders that were activated by the swine flu pandemic are now trying to limit orders and sell or give away vaccine, as demand is low.

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

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 implications.

For mouse strain specificity, Balb / c mice were included for consistency between experiments; C57BL / 6 mice were given the same vaccines and dosages as Balb / c mice for comparison as C57BL / 6 mice do not exhibit a bias for Th2 immunologic responses as do Balb / c mice [37]--[39].

As indicated, two reports attributed the immunopathology to presence of the N protein in the vaccine; however, we found the same immunopathologic reaction in animals given S protein vaccine only, although it appeared to be of lesser intensity.

Groups of mice (N = 12 — 13 per group) were administered various dosages of each vaccine intramuscularly (IM) on days 0 and 28; mice given only PBS, alum, trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine or live SARS - CoV were included as controls in various experiments.

As a site proposed for testing vaccines in humans, we requested and were given approval for evaluating different vaccine candidates for safety and effectiveness.

The vaccine is known as «RTS, S» has been given to 15,000 children in 11 different research centers in seven difference countries.

At the time, the now - disgraced former doctor was trying to create what is known in vaccine litigation as a «temporal link», and he gave a bogus time - frame for this child.

This premature enthusiasm has more recently given way to caution as the technology has gradually been transferred to humans, with only limited short - term success.3 Finally, since HIV usually enters the body through mucosal surfaces — the vagina and rectum — augmenting an immune response at these portals of entry by using what scientists call mucosal AIDS vaccines might be an additional way to improve protection against infection.

As community engagement manager at the Vanderbilt HIV Vaccine Program, Sorrell gives talks like this many times.

More investment into research is all the more important given that we are close to formidable breakthroughs in many areas of respiratory diseases, such as molecular bacteriology and virology, development of vaccines and antiviral agents, boosting host defence and innate immunity, molecular pathology and personalised care for lung cancer.

Some essential vaccines, such as the rubella (or German measles) vaccine, can be dangerous to pregnant women and need to be given some months before you get pregnant.

So if you can't go back in time and change how you were vaccinated as a kid, this could also give you inspiration about how you approach adult vaccines.

I'll freely admit that the vaccine question is outside of my area of expertise, but as the hygiene hypothesis is gaining more and more ground as one of the contributing factors for autoimmunity, it gives me a great deal of pause.