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- Vaccines and immunization: What is vaccination?
Vaccination is safe and side effects from a vaccine are usually minor and temporary, such as a sore arm or mild fever More serious side effects are possible, but extremely rare Any licensed vaccine is rigorously tested across multiple phases of trials before it is approved for use, and regularly reassessed once it is introduced
- Vaccines and immunization - World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO is working with countries and partners to improve global vaccination coverage, including through these initiatives adopted by the World Health Assembly in August 2020 Immunization Agenda 2030 IA2030 sets an ambitious, overarching global vision and strategy for vaccines and immunization for the decade 2021–2030
- Vaccines and immunization - World Health Organization (WHO)
The Regional Strategic Framework for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases and Immunization in the Western Pacific 2021-2030 was developed to expand the scope of immunization, maximize the benefits of vaccines and immunization programmes, and further accelerate control, and achieve and sustain elimination of additional vaccine-preventable diseases
- Vaccines and immunization - World Health Organization (WHO)
By preventing many serious early-childhood infectious diseases, like polio and measles, immunization helps children grow into healthy adults Other vaccines given early in life help prevent liver and cervical cancer many years later, and vaccination of older adults protects them from influenza, COVID-19 and other serious diseases
- Vaccines and immunization: Vaccine safety - World Health Organization (WHO)
Vaccination is one of the best ways to prevent diseases Over the past 50 years, essential vaccines saved at least 154 million lives (1) During the same period, vaccination has reduced infant deaths by 40% Together with governments, vaccine manufacturers, scientists and medical experts, WHO's vaccine safety programme is constantly helping monitor the safety of vaccines This helps ensure
- Inoculation vs. vaccination - Biology Stack Exchange
Vaccination specifically refers to an immunization procedure which may involve attenuated pathogens, inactivated toxins (tetanus toxoid) or even specific proteins which are expressed in a lab microbe using recombinant DNA technology (as in case of hepatitis-B vaccine) Etymology of both the terms, however, pertains to smallpox immunization
- Counting the impact of vaccines - World Health Organization (WHO)
In 2019, measles cases increased in countries where it had been previously eliminated, partially due to low vaccination rates among travelers 5 Immunization can help us prevent and respond to future infectious disease threats Immunization and disease surveillance are core capacities required by the International Health Regulations (2005)
- Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals - World Health Organization (WHO)
Episode #137 - Vaccines: science vs scare Should kids just “get the disease” instead of being vaccinated? Can vaccines really overwhelm a child’s immune system? Who decides what vaccines we get—and why? If you’re a new parent with questions about vaccines, you’re not alone
- A Brief History of Vaccination - World Health Organization (WHO)
Read more about the history of measles vaccination In 1974 the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI, now the Essential Programme on Immunization) is established by WHO to develop immunization programmes throughout the world The first diseases targeted by the EPI are diphtheria, measles, polio, tetanus, tuberculosis and whooping cough
- How do vaccines work? - World Health Organization (WHO)
Over many years and several decades, polio vaccination, using routine immunization visits and mass vaccination campaigns, has taken place in all continents Millions of people, mostly children, have been vaccinated and in August 2020, the African continent was certified wild poliovirus free, joining all other parts of the world except Pakistan
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