Vaccinations

There is currently no specific vaccine available for preventing rickettsial infections such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever or typhus. Prevention primarily involves avoiding exposure to infected ticks or fleas, using insect repellent, wearing protective clothing, and promptly removing ticks. Treatment usually involves antibiotics.

Vaccines are beneficial in that they have helped prevent millions of cases of infectious disease, and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Vaccines have eliminated the scourge of smallpox from the face of the earth, and polio and other diseases have been largely controlled.

A vaccine acts by stimulating a person's own immune system to produce antibodies against parts of a bacterium or virus. When the person is once again exposed to that bacterium or virus, the body can quickly produce antibodies and prevent infection.

In addition, vaccines can protect individuals who have not been immunized. If the percentage of the population that is vaccinated is high enough, epidemics can't take hold, as there are not enough susceptible individuals for the infection to spread. This helps to protect those individuals who are either unable to take the vaccine, unable to mount an immune response (chronically illl individuals, infants under 6 months old, people on immunosuppressant medications), or who had a poor response to the vaccine (and didn't become immune).

Louis Pasteur developed the rabies vaccine, which was first used in 1885 on a boy named Joseph Meister who had been bitten by a rabid dog. The anthrax vaccine was developed by Louis Pasteur as well in the late 19th century.

No. Thimerosol is a preservative often used in vaccines. TRACE amounts of mercury are present, but far too little to be harmful.

Many people have refused to have their children vaccinated against common childhood diseases for fear that the minuscule amounts of mercury could cause autism; however, this fear is unfounded. The scientist who had been making this claim has now been discredited. Unfortunately, thousands of children have fallen ill to preventable diseases, and a few hundred have died.

The small amount of mercury present in thimerosal is in the form of ethylmercury unlike the kind found in tuna fish which is methylmercury. Unlike methylmercury, which is infamous for bioaccumulation, ethylmercury does not collect in your body the same way.

BCG, or bacille Calmette-Guerin, is a vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) disease. This vaccine is not commonly given in the US. Previously a routine childhood vaccine in the UK, since it is no longer routine there have been several outbreaks.

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Vaccinations help to protect individuals from getting sick by teaching the immune system how to recognize and fight off specific infections. They also contribute to herd immunity, which helps to protect those who cannot be vaccinated due to medical reasons. Overall, vaccinations are a safe and effective way to prevent the spread of contagious diseases and save lives.

Yes, certain medications can cause changes in the smell of urine. For example, antibiotics like amoxicillin can sometimes give urine a strong, unusual odor. It's always a good idea to check with a healthcare provider if you notice any significant changes in the smell of your urine while taking medications.

For me the first one hurt more, as i worried more! As long

as you move your arm and move the fluids it will not ache after. Dont tense and Dont panic! Good luck sweet xx

The kind of shots needed depends on where your school is located and the rules and regulations regarding vaccinations for that area and whether or not you had your childhood immunization shots.

Vaccines recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US are:

Diptheria

Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis B

Human Papillomavirus (HPV)

Influenza

Measles

Menigococcal Disease

Mumps

Pertussis (Whooping Cough)

Pneumococcal Disease

Polio

Rotavirus

Rubella (German Measles)

Tetanus (lockjaw)

Varicella (chicken pox)

It depends if the monkey was wild or in a zoo/pet setting. Usually the vaccines given are Tetanus, and Rabies post-exposure shots. If the animal was in a zoo or pet then chance it has rabies are slim to none. Personally I would forgo the rabies shots. There has never been a reported case in the us of a primate with Rabies. The monkey would have to exposed to rabies first just as in humans. Tetanus shots are given more so to prevent infection from dirt which may enter the bite area, not so much the actual bite. Really the most important thing when bitten by a monkey, or any animal really, is to keep the bite wound clean, and away from dirt. If the bite wound is severe doctor will prescribe an antibiotic such as Amoxicillin.

If the animal was wild then the risk of carrying disease is slightly higher, but usually people are given the above shots and are fine. Its really not that serious. The only monkey which may potentially carry a virus is macaques who sometimes carry Herpes B. But it is very difficult to transmit, as the animal must be under severe stress to transmit it. Again there has never been a case in the US of macs shedding herpes B in the pet or zoo sector. Only 2 cases in research labs where animals are sometimes under severe stress.

Yeah, I guess. I don't know what will happen to you, but I don't think a vaccine will stop you from putting a glass to your mouth.

No, you can not.

Actually smallpox inoculation had been done for more than 3000 years before Jenner in India and other places. It involved using pustules from a recovering smallpox victim to induce what was hoped to be a mild case of smallpox and immunity. However sometimes inoculation caused a full blown case of smallpox with all the scarring and occasionally death. But people were familiar with it and felt they understood its benefits and risks.

Jenner introduced vaccination involving pustules from cows (in Latin vacca) with active cowpox. People were neither familiar or comfortable with this new method. Perhaps it might not produce immunity as effectively or long lasting as successful inoculation did. Might it produce unexpected side effects? Nobody (including Jenner) knew for certain and many rumors about vaccination began circulating.

The simple truth is that any vaccine can cause side effects, but they are usually minor. The most common side effects from the flu vaccine are soreness, redness, pain and swelling of the injection site, fever and malaise.

No. Vaccines are to prevent diseases, not cure or treat them.

It exposes your body to a small dose of that disease which your body starts making anti bodies for. Your body then knows how to deal with that disease if it ever should come.

Generally diseases caused by viruses like nausea, AIDS and other can not be treated by vaccination as we do not have their vaccines or if have then they are not so effective.

They are vaccines that contain viruses that have been treated to make them too weak to make you sick. The word "attenuated" just means "weakened".

This type of live attenuated vaccine is what is approved for intra-nasal administration (nasal spray) of the flu vaccines in the US. The approved intra-muscular injection vaccine is made with totally inactivated ("dead") virus particles.

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Many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa where yellow fever is present require the vaccine. I don't think Kenya requires it, but you should check with the Kenyan embassy. However, even if it isn't required for entry to the country, it is possible that it is highly recommended, so you should also check with the CDC or WHO about which vaccines you should get before traveling to Kenya.

There are thousands of different viruses and even the same virus will have mutated

over a year so it becomes a "cousin of a cousin's great great grandchild".

A vaccine is a small dose of the virus. Not enough to make you ill, but enough that

your body recognizes THAT PARTICULAR invader and learns to fight it.

Being sick with a cold or other mild illness will usually not stop you from being able to be vaccinated for the flu, unless you have a high fever. However, being out in public with an infectious disease is not advised, so you may want to wait until your symptoms are gone if you can. If you are sick from an infectious organism, then your immune system would have to do "double duty" to work on fighting that at the same time as it is busy producing antibodies from the flu vaccine. In a normal healthy adult this usually doesn't prevent vaccination, however, unless, as mentioned above, the symptoms include fever which indicates a battle is already going on between your immune system and an infectious organism. In that case, seek advice from your health care professional. Always tell the clinician who gives you the vaccination if you have been recently ill, or have underlying health issues, before they administer the vaccine.

Not in the US, unless you are in jail getting the shot. They will ask you questions, though.