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1 day ago · With sanitation and clean water, vaccines are estimated to have saved more lives over the past 100 years than any other health intervention. Vaccination not only protects the individual, but also, in many instances, provides community protection against vaccine-preventable diseases through herd immunity.
1 day ago · The meaning of HERD IMMUNITY is a reduction in the risk of infection with a specific communicable disease (such as measles or influenza) that occurs when a significant proportion of the population has become immune to infection (as because of previous exposure or vaccination) so that susceptible individuals are much less likely to come in contact with infected individuals.
4 days ago · “I think the experts are correct that herd immunity as well as the evolution of the virus is such that it has reached general population concerns similar to a cold. Sure, people can still get ...
1 day ago · Herd immunity rates of the pig population vaccinated at an estimated optimal piglet age at vaccination for classical swine fever (CSF). The blue double line represents the herd immunity rate when vaccinated at the standard age (35 days of age), and the green line represents vaccination at the optimal age simulated in Figure 2 for each term. The ...
4 days ago · Mumps is a vaccine-preventable disease with high contagious capability. Its incidence declined rapidly since one dose of mumps vaccine was introduced into Expanded Program of Immunization (EPI) in 2008 in China. Nonetheless, the outbreaks of mumps remain frequent in China. Here we aim to assess herd immunity level followed by one-dose mumps ingredient vaccine and to elucidate the genetic characteristics of mumps viruses circulating in the post vaccine era in Jiangsu province of China. The ...
4 days ago · Patients with partial immunity might indeed clear partially drug resistant P falciparum infections, but the K13 mutations are also spreading in high-transmission areas with high herd immunity. We therefore want to highlight the importance of an efficacious partner drug for the prevention of artemisinin resistance ( figure ).
1 day ago · Many people believe that natural or herd immunity will keep them safe or that the diseases we vaccinate against no longer exist. This is not true. Diseases like polio or measles are rare because many generations have been vaccinated against them. However, these diseases do still exist, and outbreaks can occur worldwide.
