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    The Vaccines for Children Program (VFC) is a federally funded program in the United States providing no-cost vaccines to children who lack health insurance...
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    (HPV) vaccines are vaccines intended to provide acquired immunity against infection by certain types of human papillomavirus. The first HPV vaccine became...
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  • been opposition to the practice and the resulting vaccines on religious and moral grounds. The vaccines do not contain any of the original fetal tissue...
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  • doses are required. The approved vaccines are recommended. This includes their use in people with HIV/AIDS. The vaccines are made with weakened rotavirus...
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    Pneumococcal vaccines are vaccines against the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. Their use can prevent some cases of pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis...
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  • investigation into vaccines and autism spectrum disorder has shown that there is no relationship between the two, causal or otherwise, and that vaccine ingredients...
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    Polio vaccines are vaccines used to prevent poliomyelitis (polio). Two types are used: an inactivated poliovirus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened...
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    The rabies vaccine is a vaccine used to prevent rabies. There are several rabies vaccines available that are both safe and effective. Vaccinations must...
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    combined vaccine (MMRV vaccine) Most health insurance plans in the United States cover the cost of vaccines, and Vaccines for Children Program may be able...
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  • drug (vaccine) to train them to differentiate and fight cancer cells. Therapeutic vaccines are a new form of vaccines that are mostly being used for viral...
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  • GAVI, officially Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (previously the GAVI Alliance, and before that the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization) is a public–private...
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    Ideas that would eventually coalesce into anti-vaccine activism have existed for longer than vaccines themselves. Various myths and conspiracy theories...
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    pathogenic bacterium or virus in the vaccine, so that the immune system can recognize the antigen later in life. Most vaccines contain a single antigen that...
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    "wild" pathogen. Vaccines go through multiple phases of trials to ensure safety and effectiveness. Many vaccines require multiple doses for maximum effectiveness...
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    previously when the vaccine was only given to children). "Active substance: diphtheria / tetanus vaccines (adsorbed), diphtheria vaccines (adsorbed)" (PDF)...
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  • Dengue vaccine is a vaccine used to prevent dengue fever in humans. Development of dengue vaccines began in the 1920s but was hindered by the need to...
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  • retained, including its support for the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and Vaccines for Children Program. NCIRD director Schuchat indicated...
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    of vaccines offer significant protection, for at least two years using the inactivated vaccine and at least five years with the attenuated vaccine. The...
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    of vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury claims to ensure a stable market supply of vaccines, and to provide cost-effective arbitration for vaccine...
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    Pertussis vaccine is a vaccine that protects against whooping cough (pertussis). There are two main types: whole-cell vaccines and acellular vaccines. The...
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    Pneumococcal vaccines". Archived from the original on 6 March 2002. Retrieved 29 May 2009. "Who should have the pneumococcal vaccine?". NHS. 2019. Retrieved...
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    vaccine act. The claims that vaccines (or thimerosal in vaccines) caused autism eventually had to be filed in the vaccine court as part of the Omnibus...
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  • SV40 was identified in early batches of the oral form of the polio vaccine. The vaccines in which SV40 was found were produced between 1955 and 1961 by Lederle...
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    such as cancer). Some vaccines offer full sterilizing immunity, in which infection is prevented. The administration of vaccines is called vaccination...
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    shingles is reduced for children who receive the varicella vaccine, but not eliminated. The CDC stated in 2014: "Chickenpox vaccines contain weakened live...
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    despite the fact that alternative vaccines without pig derivatives are approved and available. Grignolio A (2018). Vaccines: Are they Worth a Shot?. Springer...
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  • vaccines were two-dose vaccines, with the exception single-dose vaccines Convidecia and the Janssen COVID‑19 vaccine, and vaccines with three-dose schedules...
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  • human vaccines. Early vaccines may be listed by the first year of development or testing, but later entries usually show the year the vaccine finished...
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    The DPT vaccine or DTP vaccine is a class of combination vaccines to protect against three infectious diseases in humans: diphtheria, pertussis (whooping...
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    Anthrax vaccines are vaccines to prevent the livestock and human disease anthrax, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. They have had a prominent...
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