vaccine for children
61Smallpox vaccine — The smallpox vaccine was the first successful vaccine ever to be developed. It was first perfected in 1796 by Edward Jenner who acted upon the observation that milkmaids who caught the cowpox virus did not catch smallpox. Before smallpox… …
62Influenza vaccine — The influenza (flu) vaccine is recommended for persons at high risk for serious complications from influenza virus infection, including: {{}}Everyone age 50 or more; Residents of nursing homes and other long term care facilities that house… …
63A Planet for the President — infobox Book | name = A Planet for the President title orig = translator = image caption = author = Alistair Beaton cover artist = country = United States language = English series = genre = Political, Satire, Dystopian novel publisher =… …
64BCG vaccine — Immunol. a vaccine made from weakened strains of tubercle bacilli, used to produce immunity against tuberculosis. [1925 30; B(ACILLUS) C(ALMETTE )G(UÉRIN)] * * * ▪ medicine vaccine against tuberculosis. The BCG vaccine is prepared from a… …
65BCG vaccine — bē (.)sē jē n a vaccine prepared from a living attenuated strain of tubercle bacilli and used to vaccinate human beings against tuberculosis A. L. C. Calmette and C. Guérin see BACILLUS CALMETTE GUÉRIN * * * [USP] [bacille Calmette Guйrin] a vac …
66United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East — (UNRWA) is a relief and human development agency, providing education, health care, social services and emergency aid to over four million Palestinian refugees living in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, as well as in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.It …
67pneumococcal conjugate vaccine — (PCV), pneumococcal 7 valent conjugate vaccine (PCV7) a heptavalent vaccine containing purified polysaccharides of the capsular antigens of Streptococcus pneumoniae serovars 4, 6B, 9V, 14, 18C, 19F, 23F individually coupled to a nonpathogenic… …
68Flu vaccine — The flu (influenza) vaccine is recommended for persons at high risk for serious complications from influenza virus infection, including: Everyone age 65 or more; People with chronic diseases of the heart; People with chronic diseases of the lung; …
69diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis vaccine — DTaP vaccine; a combination of diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and acellular pertussis vaccine; adsorbed on an aluminum adsorbing agent. It is administered intramuscularly to children younger than seven years of age, for simultaneous… …
70hepatitis B vaccine (recombinant) — an inactivated virus vaccine derived by recombination from hepatitis B surface antigen and cloned in yeast cells; administered intramuscularly for immunization of children and adolescents and of persons at increased risk for infection …
