0
Want this question answered?
Be notified when an answer is posted
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Why are you Immune to Chickenpox but not to Measles?
The virus that causes Chicken Pox is different from the virus that causes Measles. If you receive the vaccination for Chicken Pox and not the vaccination for Measles, you are immune to the virus that causes Chicken Pox but have no immunity against the virus that causes Measles. Thus, while while Chicken Pox will not kill you from Reyes Syndrome, you might go blind from Measles. You should also get vaccinated for Measles. We can be immune to chicken pox as if the mother of a baby has had chicken pox the mother will pass temporary immunity to the baby. You can also have a vaccination. If you have chicken pox once it is unlikely you will have it again. But you can get measles more than once unless you get vaccinated. Measles are also more serious than chicken pox.
Vaccination against the hepatitis A virus is unnecessary if you?
Vaccination against hepatitis A is unnecessary if you have already had the infection.
What are some Diseases you can vaccinate against?
Tuberculosis , chicken pox , polio , rabies , influenza , lyme , mumps , measles , pertussis ,
What might you find in vaccine?
A vaccination generally contains a dead or weakened version of the virus the vaccination is against.
Why do you develop a fever after a measles vaccination?
Any vaccine injects inactive viruses. This does not mean you will get the virus, but you might experience some symptoms similar.
When did Edward Jenner develop the technique of vaccination?
Edward Jenner in 1796 used the cowpox virus (vaccinia) to confer protection against smallpox, a related virus, in humans. Prior to this use, however, the principle of vaccination was applied by Asian physicians who gave children dried crusts from the lesions of people suffering from smallpox to protect against the disease.
Are Measles caused by a virus or bacterium?
Measles is caused by virus.
Why won't the antibodies for measles work against chickenpox?
Antibodies for measles don't work against chickenpox virus because antibody for measles virus can not bind to chickenpox virus. Antibody for a specific antigen should have a shape and structure that is able to fit into this virus. Then it will be able to inhibit the activity of this virus. When a measles vaccine is inserted inside human body, or when someone has measles, the T type lymphocytes (White Blood Cells) detect the type of viruses and then B type lymphocytes produce the antibodies against this specific type of virus. If viruses of the vaccine are alive they will reproduce themselves inside the human body and the number of antibodies against them also increases. Antibodies bind to these viruses and destroy them. Now the virus (of specific disease which needs prevention) which was in the vaccine have been destroyed but the antibodies against this disease viruses are still there and they prevent from the actual disease causing viruses. Antibodies are specific: An infection with the measles virus means that the person makes antibodies only against measles. It doesn't make any antibodies against chickenpox too.
Is measles a virus fungi bacteria or protozoa?
Measles is caused by a virus.
What micro organism causes measles?
Paramyxovirus IT IS A VIRUS WHICH CONTAIN DNA....AND CAUSES MEASLES.........
What kind of pathogen is German measles?
An ariborne pathogen that targets the respiratory tracts is the rubella virus. Rubella virus is also known as the German Measles. Treatment for the rubella virus is a vaccine.German measles or Rubela is caused by a special type of microbe called as 'Virus'.
Why will antibiotics not cure a child of measles if they haven't had the MMR vaccine?
Antibiotics can only work against bacterium, whereas measles are caused by a virus.
