Vaccines (Part 1)

About the Video:

Vaccines enable your body's immune system protect you from disease. They have saved millions of lives around the world. This show looks at how vaccines are created, how they work and some needle-free vaccines that may become available.

Part one of this two-part program addresses the following topics:

Vaccine-preventable illnesses
Worldwide impact of vaccines
Measles prevention
How vaccines work in the body
Duration of protection
Vaccines for children
Immunization safety
Vaccine testing
MMR vaccine
Mercury concerns
HPV vaccine (Human papilloma virus)
Vaccines for adults

About the Expert:

Dr. Karen Kotloff is a pediatrician at the University of Maryland Hospital for Children. She is one of the nation's top vaccine experts and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She works in the University of Maryland Center for Vaccine Development.

Related Links:

Dr. Karen Kotloff
http://www.umm.edu/doctors/karen_l_kotloff.html

Vaccines (Part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ddADyB-Vgg

University of Maryland Hospital for Children
http://www.umm.edu/pediatrics/index.htm

Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Pediatrics
http://www.umm.edu/pediatrics/peds-id.htm

Routine Vaccination Recommendations
http://www.umm.edu/travel/vaxsched.htm

Center for Vaccine Development
http://medschool.umaryland.edu/CVD/

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Category:

Science & Technology

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• vaccines
• measles
• mmr
• pediatrics
• children
• infants
• kids
• mercury
• hpv
• human papilloma virus
• safety
• testing
• adults
• immune system
• immunity
• karen kotloff
• ummc