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Vaccination is the process of administering weakened or dead pathogens to a healthy person or animal, with the intent of conferring immunity against a targeted form of a related disease agent.

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How to say "Vaccination" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	疫苗注射
	(German)	Impfung
	(Spanish)	Vacunación
	(French)	vaccination
	(Italian)	Vaccinazione

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Timeline of vaccines

Timeline of vaccines This is a timeline of the development of prophylactic vaccines. Early vaccines may so the first year of development or testing but later years usually show the year the vaccine finished trials and came on the market. Although vaccines exist for these human diseases, only...

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DPT vaccine

DPT is a vaccine designed to immunize against diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus...

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Herd immunity

The effectiveness of a vaccine depends, amongst other things, on the percentage of the population which has received it and is still within the period of protection offered by that vaccine. Vaccinated people act as a sort of "firebreak" in the spread of the disease, slowing or preventing the...

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ATC code J07

systemic use J07A Bacterial vaccines J07AC Anthrax vaccines J07AC01 Anthrax antigen J07AD Brucellosis vaccines J07AD01 Brucella antigen J07AE Cholera vaccines J07AE01 Cholera, inactivated, whole cell J07AE02 Cholera, live attenuated J07AE51 Cholera, combinations with typhoid vaccine, inactivated...

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Polio vaccine

Two polio vaccines are used throughout the world to combat polio. The first was invented by... of an injected dose of killed polio virus. Albert Sabin produced an oral polio vaccine using live but weakened virus in 1962. The live-virus vaccine has the advantage that it can confer immunity on...

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Cancer vaccine

Introduction The term "Cancer Vaccine" is often used to describe a process whereby a person can be conferred immunity or protection from cancers, similar to how people are currently vaccinated against diseases such as polio, influenza, and tuberculosis. Problems A vaccine against a particular virus...

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Manuel Elkin Patarroyo

vaccine for malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitos that affects millions of people in the Third World every year. His research has recently come under scrutiny as his vaccine has performed less than ideally in clinical tests. Presently, he is continuing work on the vaccine at the Instituto...

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BCG

BCG stands for Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin vaccine against tuberculosis that is prepared from... bacilli have retained enough strong antigenicity to become an effective vaccine for the prevention... by Albert Calmette and Camille Guerin. In France the BCG vaccine has been in wide use in humans...

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Pasteur Institute

The Pasteur Institute (French: Institut Pasteur ) is a French non-profit private foundation dedicated to the study of biology, microorganisms, ailments and vaccines. It is named after Louis Pasteur... infectious and tropical diseases, vaccinations for travellers...

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Smallpox vaccine

The smallpox vaccine is the only effective preventive treatment for the deadly smallpox disease... eradicated by the World Health Organization through a massive vaccination program. However, the... another in the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology in Koltsovo, Russia. The vaccine that...

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