What are 8 diseases which vaccines can prevent?

8 Diseases Prevented by Childhood Vaccines
  • DIPTHERIA. You can get it from contact with an infected person. ...
  • TETANUS. You can get it from a cut or wound. ...
  • PERTUSSIS. You can get if from contact with an infected person. ...
  • HIB. You can get it from contact with an infected person. ...
  • HEPATITIS B. ...
  • POLIO. ...
  • PNEUMOCOCCAL. ...
  • ROTAVIRUS.
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Which disease can be prevented by using vaccines?

Vaccine preventable diseases currently include:

cholera. hepatitis A. meningococcal disease. plague.
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Which of the following diseases can be prevented by vaccination Class 8?

Sometimes after getting a vaccine, there are minor symptoms,(redness or swelling) indicating the body building immunity.
  • POLIO. Polio is a contagious disease. ...
  • TETANUS. ...
  • FLU (Influenza) ...
  • HEPATITIS B. ...
  • HEPATITIS A. ...
  • RUBELLA. ...
  • MEASLES. ...
  • WHOOPING COUGH(PERTUSSIS)
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Which diseases can be prevented by vaccination Class 9?

Name any four diseases which can be prevented by vaccination.
  • Chickenpox.
  • Tetanus.
  • Measles.
  • Influenza.
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What are vaccines Class 9?

A vaccine is an antigenic substance that develops immunity against a disease which can be delivered through needle injections or by mouth or by aerosol. Vaccination is the injection of a dead or weakened organism that forms immunity against that organism in the body.
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Vaccine Preventable Diseases



How many diseases have vaccines?

Vaccines are available for these 18 dangerous or deadly diseases. Over the years, these vaccines have prevented countless cases of disease and saved millions of lives.
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What are the 6 killer diseases?

These six are the target diseases of WHO's Expanded Programme on Immuni- zation (EPI), and of UNICEF's Univer- sal Childhood Immunization (UCI); measles, poliomyelitis, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), tetanus and tuberculosis.
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What are the 5 types of vaccines?

There are several types of vaccines, including:
  • Inactivated vaccines.
  • Live-attenuated vaccines.
  • Messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines.
  • Subunit, recombinant, polysaccharide, and conjugate vaccines.
  • Toxoid vaccines.
  • Viral vector vaccines.
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What are the 4 main types of vaccines?

There are four categories of vaccines in clinical trials: whole virus, protein subunit, viral vector and nucleic acid (RNA and DNA).
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What was the first vaccine?

Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology in the West in 1796, after he inoculated a 13 year-old-boy with vaccinia virus (cowpox), and demonstrated immunity to smallpox. In 1798, the first smallpox vaccine was developed.
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What is the name of COVID-19 vaccine?

COVAXIN® - India's First Indigenous COVID-19 Vaccine. COVAXIN®, India's indigenous COVID-19 vaccine by Bharat Biotech is developed in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - National Institute of Virology (NIV).
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What are the 10 common diseases?

Common Illnesses
  • Allergies.
  • Colds and Flu.
  • Conjunctivitis ("pink eye“)
  • Diarrhea.
  • Headaches.
  • Mononucleosis.
  • Stomach Aches.
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What are the 10 communicable diseases?

Information for Specific Communicable Diseases
  • Chickenpox / Shingles.
  • Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE)
  • Hepatitis B.
  • Hepatitis C.
  • HIV / AIDS.
  • HIV / STDs / Hepatitis.
  • Influenza.
  • Mumps.
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Does malaria have a vaccine?

In October of this year, the World Health Organization endorsed the first-ever malaria vaccine, the protein-based RTS,S/AS01. The four-dose vaccine, advanced by landmark COVID-19 prevention efforts, is a major milestone that scientists have painstakingly worked toward for decades.
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WHO list of vaccines?

Available vaccines
  • Cholera.
  • COVID-19 (corona virus)
  • Dengue.
  • Diphtheria.
  • Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
  • Human papillomavirus (HPV)
  • Influenza.
  • Japanese encephalitis.
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How many diseases are there?

The focus is really on rare diseases, but a credible case can be made that there are at least 10,000 diseases in the world, though there is likely more.
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Why do kids need 9th vaccinations?

Vaccines provide immunity from infectious diseases like tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, polio etc. Our body has an immune system which fights microbial infection. When this system first sees an infectious microbe, it kills the microbe and remembers it.
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What are the 5 most common infectious diseases?

Common Infectious Diseases
  • Chickenpox.
  • Common cold.
  • Diphtheria.
  • E. coli.
  • Giardiasis.
  • HIV/AIDS.
  • Infectious mononucleosis.
  • Influenza (flu)
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How many diseases have been eradicated by vaccines?

So far, the WHO has only two (2) eradicated diseases on their list. All thanks to the success of vaccines, smallpox caused by the variola virus (VARV) and rinderpest from the rinderpest virus (RPV) are now entirely wiped out of existence.
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What are the 20 most common diseases?

  • Diabetes.
  • Depression.
  • Anxiety.
  • Hemorrhoid.
  • Yeast infection.
  • Lupus.
  • Shingles.
  • Psoriasis.
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What are the 4 types of diseases?

There are four main types of disease: infectious diseases, deficiency diseases, hereditary diseases (including both genetic diseases and non-genetic hereditary diseases), and physiological diseases.
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What are the 7 childhood diseases?

7 Common Contagious Diseases in Childhood
  • Childhood Illnesses. Any number of things can make a child sick. ...
  • Colds. Children miss more school because of a cold than for any other contagious disease. ...
  • Stomach Flu. ...
  • Pinkeye. ...
  • Fifth Disease. ...
  • Head Lice. ...
  • Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease. ...
  • Whooping Cough.
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What kind of vaccine is Covaxin?

Bharat Biotech's Covaxin (BBV152) is an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine that uses adjuvant Alhydroxiquim-II to boost immune response and longer-lasting immunity.
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Which COVID vaccine is safest?

The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are strongly recommended as safe and effective at preventing serious illness or death from COVID-19.
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