In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses Influenza incidence and vaccine effectiveness during the southern hemisphere influenza season in Chile, Nirsevimab for prevention of RSV infection in healthy late-preterm and…
…vaccine is more than 99% effective if administered within the recommended post-exposure timeline. The rabies vaccines in current use consist of inactivated rabies virus that has been grown in embryonated…
…Health Commissioner also recommended immunization of all New Yorkers who had not received smallpox vaccine since early childhood. Vaccine was supplied free of charge to clinics set up all over…
Immunity conferred by influenza virus vaccine is short-lived. After immunization with inactivated influenza virus vaccine, serum antibody levels peak within a few months and then decline rapidly. This decline was…
figure 1 Let’s resume our discussion of the influenza virus genome. Last time we established that there are eight negative-stranded RNAs within the influenza virion, each coding for one or…
…students have received 2 doses of MMR vaccine before matriculation. The mumps vaccine was licensed in the US in 1967, resulting in a significant decline in the number of cases….
