In USA and Britain, medications, mainly paracetamol, constitute the most important cause of acute liver failure (2). In contrast, viral hepatitis is the first cause of acute liver failure in Turkey. Hepatitis A in the pediatric group and hepatitis B in adults are noteworthy. It can be easily said that the achievement of hepatitis vaccination programme in Turkey will lead to a significant reduct...

The spread of pandemic Influenza A (H1N1-2009) was believed to have been attenuated by the effectiveness of worldwide vaccination initiatives. Despite the immunogenicity of a safe vaccine, we report a case of vaccine failure resulting in catastrophic influenza-associated respiratory failure.

Smallpox is a devastating viral illness that was eradicated after an aggressive, widespread vaccination campaign. Routine U.S. childhood vaccinations ended in 1972, and routine military vaccinations ended in 1990. Recently, the threat of bioterrorist use of smallpox has revived the need for vaccination. Over 450,000 U.S. military personnel received the vaccination between December 2002 and June...

Received: Revised: Accepted: Online available: October 10, 2015 December 31, 2015 January 02, 2016 January 13, 2016 Hemorrhagic septicemia is an important disease of cattle and buffaloes in Asia, particularly the South and Southeast Asia. Since outbreaks lead to numerous deaths and severe economic loss, control by vaccination is extremely important. However, the current use of broth vaccine for...

Dear Editor, Our recently published article in the Brazilian Archives of Cardiologia1 aimed to evaluate the implementation of vaccination against influenza (INF) and Pneumococcus virus (pneumonia) in a specific subgroup of patients with heart failure (HF), due to consensus recommendation of the NorthAmerican, European and Brazilian guidelines on HF. The increased susceptibility to respiratory i...

Marek's disease (MD) virus (MDV) has been evolving continuously, leading to increasing vaccination failure. Here, the MDV field strain BS/15 was isolated from a severely diseased Chinese chicken flock previously vaccinated with CVI988. To explore the causes of vaccination failure, specific-pathogen free (SPF) chickens vaccinated with CVI988 or 814 and unvaccinated controls were challenged with ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether postexposure rabies prophylaxis (PEP) in domestic animals, as mandated by the state of Texas, has continued to be effective and to evaluate PEP and preexposure rabies vaccination failures from 1995 through 1999. DESIGN Retrospective study. ANIMALS 830 unvaccinated domestic animals (621 dogs, 78 horses, 71 cats, and 60 cattle) that received PEP and 4 animals (3...

vaccination of high-risk patients reduced winter hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and tests for respiratory ailments by 10% to 20%. As part of a three-year randomized trial, physicians of patients at high risk for serious illness from influenza infection in the study group received computer reminders to take preventive-care actions, while physicians of high-risk patients in the control ...

Diabetes mellitus is associated with increased risk of pneumonia, and 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23) is recommended for prevention of pneumonia. However, the effectiveness of PPV23 remains unclear in the older diabetic patients who usually have compromised immune function.We used data extracted from the Taiwanese National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) from 20...

Cardiac complications of smallpox vaccination have been reported in a small number of cases but are much less common than neurological or dermatological reactions. Cangemi reported a case of acute pericarditis occurring i6 days after primary vaccination in a 56-year-old man with apparent full recovery (Cangemi, I958). During the I962 smallpox outbreak, 3 cases of cardiac involvement after vacci...