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- What is herd immunity and ring vaccination?
- What is a ring vaccination study?
- What is herd immunity in animals?
- What is the definition of the word herd immunity?
- Is polio the same as smallpox?
- What is in the Ebola vaccine?
- How effective is Ebola vaccine?
- What is Zebov?
- What is herd immunity quizlet?
- What is the difference between primary and secondary vaccine failure?
What is herd immunity and ring vaccination?
During the smallpox eradication campaign in the 1960s and 1970s, the practice of ring vaccination, to which herd immunity is integral, began as a way to immunize every person in a "ring" around an infected individual to prevent outbreaks from spreading.
What is a ring vaccination study?
Ring vaccination is a strategy to inhibit the spread of a disease by vaccinating those who are most likely to be infected. This strategy vaccinates the contacts of confirmed patients, and people who are in close contact with those contacts.
What is herd immunity in animals?
The population effect is called herd immunity and is observed as a reduction in chance of becoming infected when being part of a population with some of the individuals vaccinated. Note that the protection by herd immunity applies to vaccinated individuals as well as to unvaccinated individuals.
What is the definition of the word herd immunity?
: a reduction in the risk of infection with a specific communicable disease (such as measles or influenza) that occurs when a significant proportion of the population has become immune to infection (as because of previous exposure or vaccination) so that susceptible individuals are much less likely to come in contact ...
Is polio the same as smallpox?
Unfortunately, polio differs from smallpox in another crucial way. Approximately 95% of those infected either don't display any symptoms or only display generic ones such as fever and headache. This means the type of disease tracking that officials used to detect smallpox epidemics is impossible for polio.
What is in the Ebola vaccine?
The Ebola virus vaccine*
Specifically, it contains a gene for the EBOV glycoprotein that replaces the gene for the native VSV glycoprotein. Ervebo® does not provide protection against other species of Ebolavirus or Marburgvirus.
How effective is Ebola vaccine?
In December 2016, a study found the VSV-EBOV vaccine to be 95–100% effective against the Ebola virus, making it the first proven vaccine against the disease. The approval was supported by a study conducted in Guinea during the 2014–2016 outbreak in individuals 18 years of age and older.
What is Zebov?
rVSV-ZEBOV is a recombinant, replication-competent viral vector vaccine. It consists of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), which has been genetically engineered to express the main glycoprotein from the Zaire ebolavirus so as to provoke a neutralizing immune response to the Ebola virus.
What is herd immunity quizlet?
Herd Immunity. Protection from disease in a group, due to a large enough proportion of the population having immunity to prevent disease from spreading from person to person.
What is the difference between primary and secondary vaccine failure?
Primary vaccine failure could be defined as the failure to seroconvert or the failure to mount a protective immune response after vaccination despite seroconversion, whereas secondary vaccine failure is the gradual waning of immunity over time.
