Vaccines For Dummies - Megan Coffee

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Auteur(s) : Megan Coffee

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/07/2021

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 256

Expédition : 360

Dimensions : 23.4 x 18.5 x 1.6

ISBN : 9781119787815

Résumé :

Inoculate yourself against?the confusion and misinformation surrounding vaccines?

Measles, mumps, and rubella-oh my!?Why are we vaccinating our children-and ourselves-against?these diseases, and what goes on in?our?bodies after the needle?comes out??Vaccines For Dummies?will inform and entertain you about all?things?vax, including how the first vaccines were discovered, what's in modern vaccines,?how they are?tested and?approved?for use, and why?the?CDC's vaccine schedule is what it is.?Inside,?you'll?also find a complete guide to?vaccine?benefits,?potential side effects,?and contraindications, so you'll be ready?when shot?time comes.?

From?the very first?inoculations?hundreds of years ago to the brand?new?COVID-19 shot, creating immunity to diseases has become a human specialty.?If?you're?wondering how safe and how necessary it all is, you aren't alone. In?Vaccines?For?Dummies,?we'll explore?the issue from every angle, empowering you to take charge of your wellbeing.?With this book, you will:?

• Discover?the ABCs of vaccines, including what?they're?made of and how they work?
• Learn about?each recommended childhood?and adult?immunization, plus the seasonal flu shot, all with this evidence-based guide?
• Take a journey through vaccine history,?meeting the major players of?yesterday and today?
• Decide what's right for your family, with the help of the most recent vaccine science?

Parents,?parents-to-be,?adults of any age,?and anyone who wants to delve into the microscopic world of pathogens and their?arch nemeses?(antigens and antibodies)?will?get a double?dose of knowledge from?Vaccines?For?Dummies.?

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Biographie:

Megan Coffee, MD, PhD, is a faculty member at the Grossman School of Medicine at New York University Hospital. She is an attending physician in infectious diseases at Bellevue Hospital in New York City and teaches on communicable diseases in humanitarian crises at Columbia University. She collaborates with a team at NYU to better predict disease severity in COVID.

Sharon Perkins, RN, is the co-author of more than 10 For Dummies titles including Pregnancy For Dummies, Healthy Aging For Dummies, Dad's Guide to Baby's First Year For Dummies, and most recently, Getting Pregnant For Dummies....

Sommaire:

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Foolish Assumptions 2

Icons Used in This Book 2

Beyond the Book 2

Where to Go from Here 3

Part 1: Getting Started with Vaccine Basics?5

Chapter 1: Focusing on Vaccine Fundamentals 7

Realizing the Crucial Role of Vaccines 8

Explaining How a Vaccine Works 9

Distinguishing between antigens and antibodies 10

Breaking down other vaccine ingredients 10

Comparing Viruses, Bacteria, and Toxins 11

Studying COVID-19 Vaccine Development 14

Understanding the Importance of Vaccine Schedules 15

Preparing for Potential Vaccine Side Effects 16

Optimizing Your Immune Response 16

Chapter 2: The (Non) Life of a Virus 17

Looking Inside Your Average Virus 18

Investigating Influenza Viruses 18

Type A 19

Type B 21

Type C 21

Type D 22

Examining Enteroviruses (Including Rhinoviruses) 22

Knowing About Norovirus 23

Understanding HIV 24

Trying to Say Goodbye to Measles 25

Checking Out the Cause of Chicken Pox: Varicella 26

Fighting Ebola 27

Surveying Variola (Smallpox) 29

Chapter 3: The Crowned Virus: Coronavirus 31

Identifying the Coronavirus in Humans 32

Combatting the Common Cold Coronavirus 33

What is a cold, exactly? 34

What causes a cold? 34

When is a cold not a cold? 35

Surveying SARS and MERS 40

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) 40

Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) 41

COVID-19: The Novel (and Specially Confounding) Coronavirus 42

Reviewing the start of the pandemic 42

Charting the course of the infection 44

Detecting a COVID-19 infection 46

Digging into the development of COVID-19 vaccines 50

Dealing with vaccine side effects 52

Aiming for herd immunity 53

Keeping safe from COVID-19 if you're not yet protected by vaccination 55

Coping with COVID-19 and flu season 56

Chapter 4: Bacterial Bad Guys 57

Understanding What Makes Bacteria Different from Viruses 57

Digging into Vaccines That Defuse Bacteria 58

The make-up of vaccines that protect against bacterial toxins 59

The bacterial illnesses that vaccines prevent 59

Comparing Antibiotics and Vaccines 64

Seeing How Vaccines Help Prevent Antibiotic Resistance 65

Part 2: Verifying Valuable Vaccines?67

Chapter 5: Distinguishing and Testing Different Vaccines 69

Getting to Know the Different Types of Vaccines 70

Whole-pathogen vaccines 70

Subunit vaccines 72

Testing Vaccines for Safety and Effectiveness 75

Determining the need and costs: The preclinical stage 75

Phase I 76

Phase II 76

Phase III 76

Post-Phase III 77

Studying the Efficacy of Vaccines 78

Measuring efficacy versus effectiveness 78

Rounding up herd immunity 79

Tracing the History of Various Vaccines 80

Smallpox 80

Typhoid fever 81

Yellow fever 81

Influenza 82

Polio 82

Anthrax 82

Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) 82

Varicella (chicken pox) 83

Chapter 6: Tracking the Current List of Effective Vaccines 85

Chicken Pox (Varicella) 85

Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis 86

Diphtheria 86

Tetanus 87

Pertussis 88

Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (Hib) 88

Hepatitis A 89

Hepatitis B 90

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) 92

Influenza (Flu) 93

Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) 95

Measles...