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A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins.
Read More at Wikipedia ›A British woman's life is at risk after she contracted rabies from a puppy overseas and was misdiagnosed by doctors at home three times.
Rabies was eradicated from the UK over a century ago—but the patient is fighting for life in hospital isolation, almost two months after being bitten in India.Understood to be in her 50s, the woman is said to have visited her doctor once and a hospital's accident and emergency department twice over four days feeling ill, but was sent home each time, The Sun reported.Sources said she returned to her doctor once more, when she was forwarded to the hospital with a suspected case of rabies and then properly diagnosed.The Hospital for Tropical Diseases based at University College Hospital in London confirmed the case, affirming patients, staff and visitors were not at risk, although it is understood that relatives and hospital staff have been offered precautionary vaccines, The (London) Daily Telegraph reported.Possibly life-threatening, rabies is an acute ...After a close review of more than 1,000 research studies, a federal panel of experts has concluded that vaccines cause very few side effects, and found no evidence t...
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