Medicines are agents (chemical/biological) used to prevent, diagnose or and treat disease. Vaccines are a special kind of preventive medicine […]
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Yes, all children should be vaccinated against major disease-causing agents for which there is a safe and effective vaccine. Read […]
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Children’s immunization schedules are safe because individual vaccines have been extensively studied in terms of their beneficial effects, side effects, […]
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Collective immunity or herd immunity or community immunity refers to a situation whereby a high number of individuals in a […]
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Vaccines are generally made from components of disease-causing agents or live attenuated agents. While these components provoke the body into […]
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Approved vaccines schedules (series of vaccines given to an individual) cannot overload the immune system as these are carefully studied […]
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Vaccines generally work through provoking the body into developing and mounting an immune response by imitating an infection. As a […]
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Yes, approved vaccines do work. The impact in preventing infection or worse clinical outcomes may vary from one type of […]
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Approved vaccines are safe because they go through a rigorous system of testing before being introduced. Sometimes vaccines cause mild […]
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