Inoculations

COVID-19: everything you need to know about vaccination

The introduction of special drugs - vaccines - may be the only way to stop the pandemic spread of COVID-19. There is a lot of talk about this topic, but for the average person, there are still a lot of questions that we will try to answer.

Cervical cancer vaccination

The cervical cancer vaccine is a vaccine that prevents infection with the dangerous human papillomavirus. Nowadays, medicine knows about a large number of HPV types (about 100), which cause the development of various diseases.

ARIs and "bacterial vaccines" to combat them

Acute respiratory diseases are the most common pathology in childhood: every year children suffer from 2-3 to 10-12 ARIs, which are caused by more than 150 pathogens and their variants.

Why do complications arise after immunizations?

All vaccines have reactogenic properties, i.e. the ability to cause local and general symptoms, but modern vaccines have minimal reactogenic properties. It is difficult to distinguish between reactions and complications, the latter including serious disorders. An acute episode may either have a causal relationship with the vaccination or be a coincidence; it should be considered an "adverse event" until the investigation is completed.

Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV)

Of the more than 120 types of human papillomavirus, more than 30 types infect the genital tract. Infection of women with HPV is the most important factor in the development of cervical cancer, HPV was detected in 99.7% of biopsies for both squamous cell carcinomas and adenocarcinomas. Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) has significantly reduced the incidence of cervical cancer.

Pertussis vaccination

Whooping cough is especially severe in children in the first months of life - with attacks of apnea, pneumonia, atelectasis (25%), convulsions (3%), encephalopathy (1%). Vaccination against whooping cough, carried out in children in coverage of more than 95% in Russia led to a decrease in the incidence from 19.06 per 100,000 population and 91.46 per 100,000 children under 14 in 1998 to 3.24 and 18.86 in 2005 and 5.66 to 34.86 in 2007, respectively.

Vaccination against rotavirus infection

The difficulty in creating a vaccine against rotavirus infection, the causative agents of which have many serotypes, was overcome by the observation that two rotavirus infections suffered by a child - usually at an early age - make him immune to infection with rotaviruses of any serotype.

Chickenpox vaccination

Chickenpox is caused by a virus from the herpes virus group. The infection is extremely contagious. The reduction of the network of nurseries and kindergartens has led to an increase in the non-immune layer (in England and the USA - 4-20% of people aged 20-25 years), so that chickenpox (varicella) in children, adolescents and adults has become common and is more severe in them. Vaccination against chickenpox has significantly reduced the incidence of chickenpox.

Zonne dysentery vaccination

Vaccination against Sonne dysentery is given to children from 3 years of age and adults. Priority vaccination against Sonne dysentery is recommended for: workers in infectious disease hospitals and bacteriological laboratories

Vaccination against pneumococcal infection

Pneumococci cause the most common bacterial infection in humans, according to WHO estimates, it causes 1.2 million deaths per year, more than 40% of deaths in children aged 0-5 years - community-acquired pneumonia in Russia 1.5 million per year, pneumococci cause 76% of them in adults and up to 90% in children under 5 years, including those complicated by pleurisy and destruction. Vaccination against pneumococcal infection has significantly reduced the incidence of pneumococcal infection.