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VACCINES AND SERUMS

Introduction
Vaccine production
Diseases which can be prevented by vaccines
Types of inoculation
Passive inoculation
The dangers of passive inoculation
Attenuated vaccines
The dangers of attenuated vaccination
Other dangers with attenuated vaccination
Combining attenuated and killed vaccines
Legal obligations regarding possible side effects...

Vaccination (inoculation) and serums

Vaccines are a simple and efficient method of protection against contagious diseases for which they have been developed. Vaccines have eliminated several quite dangerous and lethal diseases, which are nowadays just a matter of theory, with no clinical examples, as they have been eradicated. However, since the microorganisms which cause those diseases still live in our environment, we are obliged to maintain a high level of protection in our community. This prevents those almost forgotten diseases to appear again. Upbringing and maintenance of communal immunity is achieved by the inoculation of every single man, woman and child, so it should not be perceived only as preservation of our own health, but also as a contribution to the health profile of the whole community.

Young children are in the greatest danger, and that is the reason why they should be inoculated as early as possible, even in the first days of their lives. Since mother gives not only food to the fetus, but also the antibodies she developed during her life, by inoculation or natural immunization, a child is usually protected for the first 6 month of its life....