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New challenges - Disease Prevention through Vaccination
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 16 11
The successful implementation of mass immunization programs and the subsequent eradication or reduction of smallpox, polio, measles, pertussis, meningococcal meningitis, diphtheria, mumps, rubella, and…
Ensuring vaccine safety and monitoring: checks and balances
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 16 11
The challenge is to reduce the number of injections and minimize the side effects without compromising effectiveness and patient acceptability. Before the FDA can…
Protesting vaccines: Fact or Myth
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
Antivaccination movements often can have a significant effect on public health, primarily as a result of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. But, are the fears…
The importance of vaccination and resistance to it
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
The marketing of Gardasil and similar prototypes in the pipeline illustrates that pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies are engaged in vaccine research.
With the…
Human papillomavirus (HPV)
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infections in the United States. Sexually transmitted HPVs, common in adults and sexually active adolescents,…
Pneumococcal Pneumonia
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
The Streptococcus pneumoniae bacterium (often called pneumococcus) can cause a variety of diseases, from severe, potentially life-threatening pneumonia, meningitis, and bacteremia to common but…
Influenza
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
Historically, influenza (the flu) epidemics have cased havoc. Charlemagne’s army may have been decimated by the flu during an epidemic in 876. The great…
Measles, Mumps and Rubella
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
As late as the 1950s, and before a vaccine was developed, parents were encouraged to expose their children to diseases like measles, mumps, and…
Polio
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
Probably no disease created as much fear as polio. Paralysis and death were the major hazards of- this disease. Probably the most famous polio…
Milestones in vaccine history
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
It was almost 100 years after Jenner’s seminal work that vaccination moved beyond smallpox. The French chemist, Louis Pasteur, developed what he called a…
It all started with compox
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
No discussion of vaccines can be considered complete without a discussion of smallpox and Edward Jenner, a country doctor in England who is credited…
What are vaccines and how do they work?
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
The doctrine holding that infectious diseases are caused by the activity of microorganisms within the body is referred to as the germ theory of…
Disease Prevention through Vaccination: The Science and the Controversy
• Public Health • • Disease Prevention through Vaccination • Sep 14 11
Each one of us is constantly warding off the potential for infection or disease. After all, the world is filled with countless microbes, fortunately…