Chicken pox vaccine

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Varicella-zoster vaccines (chicken pox vaccine) Human diploid cells... 

Varicella. The varicella (chicken pox) vaccine was approved in April 1995 for immunization of children. A single dose at one year of age is recommended. In the future if may be combined with measles, mumps, and rubella. 

Chicken pox is a highly contagious viral infection that causes rash-like blisters on the skin surface and mucous membranes. It is generally mild and not normally life-threatening. For adults, the symptoms are more serious and uncomfortable than for children. The disease can also be deadly for some people, such as pregnant women, people with leukemia, or immunosuppressed patients. Varivax (varicella virus vaccine live) from Merck Co. was tested on about 11 000 children and adults, and was approved by the FDA in March 1995 as a chicken pox vaccine. 

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The word vaccination comes from vaccinia, the name of the virus now known to cause cowpox vaca is the Latin word for cow ). The term vaccination is now broadly used to describe the process of causing a mild disease in order to protect a person from a more dangerous disease. Vaccination is one form of immunization, exposing the body to a material to stimulate a protective response from the immune system. Vaccination is routinely used to prevent many illnesses, including measles, rnmnps, German measles (rubella), chicken pox, and polio. Many of these illnesses have disappeared or become very rare in developed countries that provide widespread vaccinations. Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide, thanks to... 

Varicella zoster vaccines Live attenuated strain of herpes virus varicellae Active immunization against chicken pox... 

The active immunity may be acquired following clinical infection (chicken pox, rubella, measles), following subclinical infection (polio and diphtheria) and following immunization with an antigen which may be killed vaccine, live attenuated vaccine or a toxoid. 

Jenner s speckled monster (smallpox) has been defeated, but AIDS will be with us for many years to come. While smallpox was eradicated by means of a worldwide vaccination campaign, prevention of acquired immune deficiency syndrome or AIDS will require new drugs and more careful sexual behaviour. Both diseases do share a common feature - they are caused by Nature s most successful parasites - the viruses. In the developed world, it is not uncommon for a person to survive to a ripe old age without experiencing a serious bacterial infection or contracting one of the many forms of cancer. They will, however, have suffered from the effects of numerous viral infections of the respiratory tract, i.e., colds and flu, and most probably, from the common childhood virus-inflicted disease of chicken pox. It is unlikely that any of these afflictions will have been life-threatening, but they will have caused many days to be lost from school or work. In other words, the morbidity due to the common viral diseases is high, but the mortality is low. 

In 1961, Hampar and Ellison reported chromosomal alterations in Chinese hamster culture cells [181] infected with herpesvirus, and Nichols [182, 183] demonstrated an abnormal incidence of chromosome breaks in cultured leukocytes obtained from children with measles. Since then the list of publications on the effect of viruses on chromosomes has grown into an innumerable bibliography, and chromosomal anomalies have been described after infection with rubella, mumps, chicken pox, and even after vaccination for smallpox or yellow fever. 

Children in the United States are vaccinated against a growing list of diseases pertussis (whooping cough), diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella (chicken pox), polio, hepatitis B, and pneumococcal disease. Annual influenza vaccination, depending on the prevalent viral strain, is recommended for most age groups. The HlNl influenza pandemic of 2009 saw the rapid development of an effective vaccine however, a vaccine for HIV remains ellusive. 

Relative active or latent peptic ulcer disease, recent intestinal anastomoses, nonspecific ulcerative colitis (increased risk of perforation), diabetes, adrenocortical insufficiency (may persist for months after discontinuing therapy), active or latent tuberculosis, cerebral malaria, chicken pox, meades, latent amebiasis or strongyloides infection, inactivated viral or bacterial vaccines where antibody response may not be induced, cirrhosis, congestive heart failure, renal failure or hypertension (increased risk of sodium retention, edema and potassium loss), hypokalemia or hypocalcemia, emotional instability or psychotic tendencies, hypothyroidism, growth retardation in infants and children. 

Vaccines are inactive forms of viruses that boost the immune response by causing the body to produce antibodies to the virus. Several childhood diseases, such as polio, mumps, chicken pox, and measles, can be prevented through the use of vaccines. 

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