When a large portion of a community gets vaccinated they create a herd of immune people around those who are unable to be vaccinated, such as people with compromised immune systems, infants, and pregnant women. By having a high number of vaccinated people in the community, these people who aren’t able to get their […]
You’d think most vaccines would leave you protected from the disease for life, right? While some vaccines do have very long-lasting immunity to disease, certain vaccines need to be given more than once to make sure the body has that long-lasting protection. Vaccinations like these need to be given more than once to yield full protection from […]
What happens after you are injected with a viral vaccine? And which viral vaccine type is best? (Note that I’m going to be talking about viral vaccines ONLY.) First of all, there two basic types of viral vaccines: live attenuated vaccines (LAV) and inactivated (killed) vaccines. LAV contain a vaccine virus that is a weakened version of the natural disease-causing virus. Inactivated vaccines use a […]