Vaccines

Vaccines

Terms that relate to biological agents to the body that improves immunity to a particular desease. Vaccines contain a weaker version of the microbe so that it is easier to handle and further recognize by the host's immune system.

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Chronic health condition

Health care; Vaccines

A health related state that lasts for a long period of time (e.g. cancer, asthma).

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)

Health care; Vaccines

The sudden and unexpected death of a healthy infant under 1 year of age. A diagnosis of SIDS is made when an autopsy cannot determine another cause of death. The cause of SIDS is unknown. Also known ...

Brachial neuritis

Health care; Vaccines

Inflammation of nerves in the arm causing muscle weakness and pain.

Breakthrough infection

Health care; Vaccines

Development of a disease despite a person's having responded to a vaccine.

Causal association

Health care; Vaccines

The presence or absence of a variable (e.g. smoking) is responsible for an increase or decrease in another variable (e.g. cancer). A change in exposure leads to a change in the outcome of interest.

Transverse myelitis

Health care; Vaccines

The sudden onset of spinal cord disease. Symptoms include general back pain followed by weakness in the feet and legs that moves upward. There is no cure and many patients are left with permanent ...

Community immunity

Health care; Vaccines

A situation in which a sufficient proportion of a population is immune to an infectious disease (through vaccination and/or prior illness) to make its spread from person to person unlikely. Even ...