Vaccines teach our immune system to recognise and fight specific germs—no infection needed. 🌱

- They’re rigorously tested for safety.
- Different formats exist (live‑attenuated, mRNA, protein subunit, etc.).
- Widespread immunisation cuts disease spread, protects the vulnerable, and eases strain on health systems.

#VaccinesWork #PublicHealth #ScienceMatters #Immunisation #StayInformed

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Kent’s #meningitis outbreak was years in the making – here’s why

The #students caught up in it belong to a generation that has never been routinely #vaccinated against the strain responsible.

That is not because a #vaccine doesn’t exist. It does. Bexsero, which protects against #meningococcal group B #disease has been available since 2013

The #UK even became the first country in the world to add it to its national #immunisation schedule, in September 2015.

But only for babies ...

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There's reporting, not necessarily absolutely complete; and there may be judgement on the Individual patient, but in the history of, well, history, two people have survived #Rabies with treatment after symptoms begin.
AIRI the first was a woman in #Milwaukee with very prolonged ventilation etc,moving rise to the Milwaukee #Protocol .
I don't know the second, and I believe patients have died despite efforts to apply that protocol.

#Immunisation usually saves you.

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Here in #Canberra, a city of nearly 490,000, we’ve had ONE confirmed case of #measles. The #health department issued a press release and everything, in case patient zero inadvertently infected others.

When I was a kid, measles was a common childhood hazard. Everyone knew someone who caught it. Now, even a single case is unusual enough to warrant a press release.

#Immunisation works. We are KILLING it, folks.

#medicine #immunization #vaccination https://aus.social/@jhaue/116116726950300485

💉 Millions of children are still missing life-saving vaccines. New high-resolution data reveals the location of Nigeria’s zero-dose children and how to reach them.

🔗🔊 Learn more: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/mapping-25-years-of-vaccination-progress-in-nigeria-new-high-resolution-insights/

#Vaccines #DataForGood #HealthEquity #Immunisation #GIS #GlobalHealth #OpenData

💉 Millions of children are still missing life-saving vaccines. New high-resolution data reveals the location of Nigeria’s zero-dose children and how to reach them.

🔗🔊 Learn more: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/mapping-25-years-of-vaccination-progress-in-nigeria-new-high-resolution-insights/

#Vaccines #DataForGood #HealthEquity #Immunisation #GIS #GlobalHealth #OpenData

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Yes, I thought the same, if you want to know the likely damage from unchecked measles (mortality, morbidity/ death, sickness, add disability - eg deafness): just ask #publicHealth experts, epidemiologists & biostatisticians. It’s not like the world is lacking in relevant experts & knowledge. Perhaps if the US invested a little more time & effort in the World Health Organisation* they wouldn’t ask such dumb questions or show ignorance so proudly. 🤔 This person is one sick puppy. ☹️

*WHO - which the US has now left without paying the $260m it owes - a typical Thump manoeuvre to not pay your bills.

#measles #epidemiology #immunisation #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #reconnectingConsequencesToCauses

@benlockwood