Vaccine Definition and 67 Threads

A friend of mine was giving his dogs preventative shots of Rabies Vaccine himself due to his village's remote location and no veterinatians in the region. The skin on his hands was exposed to a drops of vaccine while he was administering the syringe. No cuts, scratches etc, just a drop of...

Can a flu vaccine cause a "cytokine storm"?

who are responsible for vaccine? Who are responsible for developing vaccine, antibiotics and antiviral drugs? What major do i have to choose at college if i want to develop vaccine and drugs some day??

I was scratched by a wild cat,I took the rabies vaccine injection rigorously for the first three injections,but at the fourth,I haven't take it on time. Today I went to the hospital to take the fourth injection,the doctor told me that I need to restart to take the injection from the first to...

My mom won't let me get the new HPV vaccine, but I wanted to. Sounded like a good idea. She said that later down the road (She's an RN) they'll find that the *stuff* in it will hurt us. So what is she talking about? Or hinting at? Is there something to be worried about, or is this another...

Has the H1N1 vaccine been scientifically proven to protect against the H1N1 "swine" flu virus? I am very hesitant to get one as I have heard that people have developed serious side effects, such as Guillian-Barre syndrome.

It hit the news in a last few days, you have probably heard about it. That's what I have found about the trial: And it makes me wonder - what is statistical significance of this diference? What is a confidence level that those that were given vaccine were in fact more immune? Or in other...

I'm surprised I don't see anyone has posted this before. Have you head about http://www.eleconomista.es/salud/noticias/1563995/09/09/AIDS-vaccine-important-step-against-disease.html ? What do you think?

Isn't perfect (or universal) vaccine as simple as basically an immunity booster vaccine consisting of cloned immunity cells of a specific person?

Is a genetic vaccine simply another word for a genetic engineering/genetic recombination? It is part of a question on my microbio. homework but we have never talked about the exact phrase "genetic vaccine" so I am a little confused as to what exactly it is referring to. Thanks for the help...

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2007/pr60/en/index.html

I received a flier in the mail promoting investment in a malaria vaccine manufactured by some Chinese company. How far from the truth is a malaria vaccine at present?

IF a vaccine is an inactive form of the virus then in theory can't they make a HIV vaccine from dead HIV virus? the virus dies 90 secs after touching open air... So it can't infect anyone else... Since it attacks the T cells, is not there a way to get the white blood cells out of the red blood...

how does vaccine help the body develop the immunity that it needs?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060519/ap_on_he_me/cancer_vaccine;_ylt=As2BT9Y98c5wTyM9DynP.Vus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3czJjNGZoBHNlYwM3NTE- FDA Panel: Vaccine Protects Against a Cancer http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5415858 It is recommended for girls and women (9-26)...

I just read this In other news, the Japanese may have found a possible vaccine for AIDS. Expect the United States to do everything in its power to prevent this knowledge from spreading. http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200507070204.html

http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031124/06