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What is diarrhea vaccine?
Diarrhea is a symptom of several diseases, not a disease itself. Therefor there is no vaccine for diarrhea. But there are vaccines for some of the diseases that cause diarrhea as a symptom. However there are also non-disease causes of diarrhea and for these there will never be a vaccine, as there is nothing to vaccinate against.Diarrhea is also a symptom of several types of poisons as well as radiation sickness and although these can be considered "diseases" or "illnesses", there is no disease causing organism to vaccinate against so there will never be a vaccine.
What is rotavirus vaccine used for?
Rotavirus is a disease that causes extreme diarrhea particularly in children and the elderly. The vaccine is given to children aged 2 to 3 years old and effectively reduces the number of children who contract the disease, and the severity for those who do get it.
What is rubella vaccine used for?
MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, and rubella) is the vaccine used to prevent rubella.
What vaccine is used for rubella virus?
MMR vaccine (measles, mumps, and rubella) is the vaccine used to prevent rubella.
How does measles vaccine prevent diarrhea?
Children who have measles., or have had the disease in the previous four weeks, have a substantially increased risk of developing severe or fatal diarrhea or dysentery (there is some evidence that the increased risk lasts up to six months after measles). Because of the strong relationship between measles and serious diarrhea, and the effectiveness of measles vaccines, measles immunization is a very cost-effective measure for reducing diarrhea morbidity and deaths. Measles vaccine given at 9 months of age can prevent up to 25% of diarrhea-associated deaths in children under 5 years of age.
What do cow and chickens have to do with the flu vaccine?
Chicken eggs are used as the medium to grow the viruses that are used in the preparation of the vaccine.
What is loperamide used for?
diarrhea
Does the Ebola virus have a vaccine?
There is no known vaccination for the virus yet. Only experimental procedures have been used.
What is an antidiarrheal?
An antidiarrheic is an agent used to prevent or treat diarrhea.
What is the solution used for immunization?
vaccine
When was chickenpox vaccine first used in California?
Chickenpox vaccine was first used in California in 1995.
Is BCG vaccine compulsory in the UK?
No the BCG vaccine is only given to those who are in the high risk groups. The vaccine used to be compulsory but it was changed in 2005.
