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Cocooning (immunization) Children generally have close contact with their parents, so children often catch diseases from their parents. This mother's vaccination therefore reduces the risk of infection for the child on her lap. Cocooning, also known as the Cocoon Strategy, [1] is a vaccination strategy to protect infants and other vulnerable ...
Rh disease. Rh disease (also known as rhesus isoimmunization, Rh (D) disease, or rhesus incompatibility, and blue baby disease) is a type of hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN). HDFN due to anti-D antibodies is the proper and currently used name for this disease as the Rh blood group system actually has more than 50 antigens and ...
The DPT vaccine or DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus (lockjaw). [7] The vaccine components include diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, and either killed whole cells of the bacterium that causes pertussis or pertussis antigens.
Animal vaccination is the immunisation of a domestic, livestock or wild animal. [1] The practice is connected to veterinary medicine. [1] The first animal vaccine invented was for chicken cholera in 1879 by Louis Pasteur. [2] The production of such vaccines encounter issues in relation to the economic difficulties of individuals, the government ...
Loss of smell or taste. Nausea. Diarrhea. The virus can lead to pneumonia, respiratory failure, heart problems, liver problems, septic shock, and death. Many COVID-19 complications may be caused ...
Contact immunity. A child swallowing a dose of an oral polio vaccine. Contact immunity is the property of some vaccines, where a vaccinated individual can confer immunity upon unimmunized individuals through contact with bodily fluids or excrement. In other words, if person "A" has been vaccinated for virus X and person "B" has not, person "B ...
Varicella vaccine. Varicella vaccine, also known as chickenpox vaccine, is a vaccine that protects against chickenpox. [9] One dose of vaccine prevents 95% of moderate disease and 100% of severe disease. [10] Two doses of vaccine are more effective than one. [10] If given to those who are not immune within five days of exposure to chickenpox it ...
A COVID‑19 vaccine is a vaccine intended to provide acquired immunity against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID‑19 ). Prior to the COVID‑19 pandemic, an established body of knowledge existed about the structure and function of coronaviruses causing ...