a 29-year-old housewife presented with abdominal pain and abnormal results on liver function tests (table 1). the patient was from a rural area (garmsar, iran) and there was no family history of a similar disease. her family owned various animals most notably jackals, dogs, and cats. the animals were not receiving regular veterinary check-ups, preventive care, or even vaccinations.

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate among adolescents in Antwerp their knowledge about vaccination and to describe their information sources, motives and barriers for vaccination. METHODS In March 2009, adolescents aged between 14 and 17 years from three schools with a mixed Belgian and immigrant population in Antwerp completed a written questionnaire concerning vaccination. The ...

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1. In general, HIV-1 infected individuals should not receive any live viral or bacterial vaccines (eg. Measles/Mumps/Rubella, monovalent Rubella, BCG, yellow fever, oral Typhoid Ty21a, varicella-zoster, oral Polio, vaccinia). There have been instances of lethal infections with live vaccinia vaccines following vaccination of HIV-infected persons.(3) This principle however applies particularly to...

www.nexusmagazine.com NEXUS • 37 P ro-vaccinators claim eradication success with vaccines against two diseases: smallpox and poliomyelitis. The problem is that both these claims are not true, but many people believe them. In this article, I deal with outbreaks of paralytic poliomyelitis straight after mass vaccination programs in both developed and developing countries, as published in orthodox...

Received: June 26 2017; Accepted: July 13 2017; Published: July 17 2017 challenge studies in healthy adults with potentially attenuated viruses? Second, influenza vaccines are recommended not only for healthy adults but also for children, the elderly, pregnant women, anyone with high-risk conditions and those with chronic medical conditions; it is not known whether the HI titer of 40 is equally...

BACKGROUND The introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) to the U.S. recommended childhood immunization schedule in the year 2000 added three injections to the number of vaccinations a child is expected to receive during the first year of life. Surveys have suggested that the addition of PCV has led some immunization providers to move other routine childhood vaccinations to later age...