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Why only girls are given rubella vaccine?
Because only girls can get pregnant. Rubella can cause serious damage to the fetus of a pregnant women if she is to catch rubella.
Why only girls are given the rubella vaccine when they are about 12 years old?
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Why do only girls are given the rubella vaccine when they are about 12 years old?
Girls need protection against rubella in case of pregnancy. If a pregnant women should get rubella it will cause teratogenic to the unborn baby. Those can be eye, ear, heart and brain teratogenic. Mostly this will happen during the first thre months of pregnancy. In case of pregnancy the doctors in Germany make a blood test to find out if the women has immunisation against rubella.
Which is the trusted brand for chickenpox vaccine?
In the US, there are two brands of FDA-approved vaccine that contain chickenpox. Varivax vaccinates against chickenpox only, and Proquad vaccinates against chickenpox, measles, mumps, and rubella.
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.
How is MMR good for you?
MMR is the Mumps-Measles-Rubella vaccine, which prevents these diseases, beginning in childhood. The vaccine not only confers individual immunity, but when given to all (or almost all) children provides what is known as herd immunity as well. The MMR has been extraordinarily successful in almost eradicating all cases of mumps, measles and rublella in children here in the U.S.
Can the flu vaccine be given by IV route?
No, the only forms of the vaccine are for use as IM (intramuscular) injections or as intra-nasal mists.
What do vaccines prevent?
Vaccines prevent only the infectious diseases that they were made to prevent. For example, a vaccine for one type of flu will prevent that type of flu, but you may still get other types if you are not also vaccinated for them. This is why the seasonal flu vaccine usually contains vaccine for the three most likely types of flu that are expected to circulate at the next flu season. There are vaccines for the various types of influenza, for other viral diseases like measles, mumps and polio and for a very limited number of bacterial disease such as one common type of bacterial pneumonia. See the related questions below for more information about how vaccines work.
Why does a particular vaccine give immunity against one disease only?
That is a good question! In the vaccine, you have few proteins, that are derived from particular organism only. The antibodies are very specific. They act against the particular proteins only. So from the given vaccine, you get specific antibodies. Those antibodies will act against that particular organism only.
Can you get Diphtheria from the vaccine?
No. Because what is given is not a the whole virus. All have weakened or partial viruses and only enough is given to produce an immune response.
What is used to make measles vaccine?
The MMR vaccine (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) is a live, attenuated (weakened), combination vaccine that protects against the measles, mumps, and rubella viruses. It was first licensed in the combined form in 1971 and contains the safest and most effective forms of each vaccine. It is made by taking the measles virus from the throat of an infected person and adapting it to grow in chick embryo cells in a laboratory. As the virus becomes better able to grow in the chick embryo cells, it becomes less able to grow in a child's skin or lungs. When this vaccine virus is given to a child it replicates only a little before it is eliminated from the body. This replication causes the body to develop an immunity that, in 95% of children, lasts for a lifetime. A second dose of the vaccine is recommended to protect those 5% who did not develop immunity in the first dose and to give "booster" effect to those who did develop an immune response.
What are the vaccines given to protect a child?
DTaP is a vaccine to protect against Diptheria, Tetanus and Pertussis. The antigens present in this vaccine are Diptheria toxoid, Tetanus toxoid and Acellular Pertussis. Another option is the DTP shot which protects against the same diseases. Vericella is a vaccine to protect against chicken pox. MMR is a vaccine to protect against Mumps, Measles and Rubella. IPV is a vaccine to protect against Poliovirus and should not be given to children with neomycin allergies (although this vaccine is typically given to children at 2 months old so you really wouldn't know if the child has this allergy or not...) There is also a shot to protect against Hepatitis B which is given at the hospital when the baby is one day old. This shot is not completely necessary and should, in my opinion, only be given to the child if the mother has hepatitis, if the baby is at risk for contracting it (because of a family member or caregiver with the disease) or if the child is going to daycare. Otherwise, the child should have it a few months before beginning daycare or Kindergarten (if you feel the child may become exposed). When a child is born they are given a Vitamin K shot to help blood clotting.
