Vaccines for dummies

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Vaccines for dummies

Author:

Coffee, Megan author.

Perkins, Sharon, author.

Series:

--For dummies.

Summary:

"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."-- Amazon.com.

General Note:

"Learning made easy" -- Cover.

"Discover the importance of vaccines for your health ; Understand how and why vaccines are developed ; Get the facts about the COVID-19 vaccine"--Cover.

Includes index.

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages ; 24 cm.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Subject Term:

Vaccines -- Health aspects.

COVID-19 (Disease) -- Vaccination.

Vaccines -- Safety measures.

Vaccination.

Author(s):

Perkins, Sharon,

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,

Publication Date:

2021

ISBN:

9781119787815

Publication Information:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2021]

Call Number:

615.372 COFFEE

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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 .

Author Notes

Mega 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.

Introduction	p. 1
About This Book	p. 1
Foolish Assumptions	p. 2
Icons Used in This Book	p. 2
Beyond the Book	p. 2
Where to Go from Here	p. 3
Part 1 Getting Started with Vaccine Basics	p. 5
Chapter 1 Focusing on Vaccine Fundamentals	p. 7
Realizing the Crucial Role of Vaccines	p. 8
Explaining How a Vaccine Works	p. 9
Distinguishing between antigens and antibodies	p. 10
Breaking down other vaccine ingredients	p. 10
Comparing Viruses, Bacteria, and Toxins	p. 11
Studying COVID-19 Vaccine Development	p. 14
Understanding the Importance of Vaccine Schedules	p. 15
Preparing for Potential Vaccine Side Effects	p. 16
Optimizing Your Immune Response	p. 16
Chapter 2 The (Non) Life of a Virus	p. 17
Looking Inside Your Average Virus	p. 18
Investigating Influenza Viruses	p. 18
Type A	p. 19
Type B	p. 21
Type C	p. 21
Type D	p. 22
Examining Enteroviruses (Including Rhinoviruses)	p. 22
Knowing About Norovirus	p. 23
Understanding HIV	p. 24
Trying to Say Goodbye to Measles	p. 25
Checking Out the Cause of Chicken Pox: Varicella	p. 26
Fighting Ebola	p. 27
Surveying Variola (Smallpox)	p. 29
Chapter 3 The Crowned Virus: Coronavirus	p. 31
Identifying the Coronavirus in Humans	p. 32
Combatting the Common Cold Coronavirus	p. 33
What is a cold, exactly?	p. 34
What causes a cold?	p. 34
When is a cold not a cold?	p. 35
Surveying SARS and MERS	p. 40
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)	p. 40
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)	p. 41
COVID-19: The Novel (and Specially Confounding) Coronavirus	p. 42
Reviewing the start of the pandemic	p. 42
Charting the course of the infection	p. 44
Detecting a COVID-19 infection	p. 46
Digging into the development of COVID-19 vaccines	p. 50
Dealing with vaccine side effects	p. 52
Aiming for herd immunity	p. 53
Keeping safe from COVID-19 if you're not yet protected by vaccination	p. 55
Coping with COVID-19 and flu season	p. 56
Chapter 4 Bacterial Bad Guys	p. 57
Understanding What Makes Bacteria Different from Viruses	p. 57
Digging into Vaccines That Defuse Bacteria	p. 58
The make-up of vaccines that protect against bacterial toxins	p. 59
The bacterial illnesses that vaccines prevent	p. 59
Comparing Antibiotics and Vaccines	p. 64
Seeing How Vaccines Help Prevent Antibiotic Resistance	p. 65
Part 2 Verifying Valuable Vaccines	p. 67
Chapter 5 Distinguishing and Testing Different Vaccines	p. 69
Getting to Know the Different Types of Vaccines	p. 70
Whole-pathogen vaccines	p. 70
Subunit vaccines	p. 72
Testing Vaccines for Safety and Effectiveness	p. 75
Determining the need and costs: The preclinical stage	p. 75
Phase I	p. 76
Phase II	p. 76
Phase III	p. 76
Post-Phase III	p. 77
Studying the Efficacy of Vaccines	p. 78
Measuring efficacy versus effectiveness	p. 78
Rounding up herd immunity	p. 79
Tracing the History of Various Vaccines	p. 80
Smallpox	p. 80
Typhoid fever	p. 81
Yellow fever	p. 81
Influenza	p. 82
Polio	p. 82
Anthrax	p. 82
Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR)	p. 82
Varicella (chicken pox)	p. 83
Chapter 6 Tracking the Current List of Effective Vaccines	p. 85
Chicken Pox (Varicella)	p. 85
Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis	p. 86
Diphtheria	p. 86
Tetanus	p. 87
Pertussis	p. 88
Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (Hib)	p. 88
Hepatitis A	p. 89
Hepatitis B	p. 90
Human Papillomavirus (HPV)	p. 92
Influenza (Flu)	p. 93
Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR)	p. 95
Measles, Mumps, Rubella, and Varicella (MMRV)	p. 97
Meningococcal Vaccines	p. 97
Pneumococcal Vaccines	p. 98
For adults	p. 99
For children	p. 100
Rotavirus	p. 101
Shingles (Herpes Zoster)	p. 102
Chapter 7 What to Expect When You're Vaccinating	p. 105
Understanding Side Effects: What May Cause Them and What Happens	p. 106
Looking at common vaccine ingredients	p. 106
Distinguishing vaccine delivery methods	p. 110
Watching for localized skin reactions	p. 111
Expecting a systemic immune response	p. 114
Recognizing and Treating Serious Reactions	p. 116
Avoiding allergic reactions	p. 117
Anaphylactic reactions	p. 117
Febrile seizures after childhood vaccinations	p. 118
Guillain-Barré syndrome	p. 119
Thrombocytopenia	p. 120
Looking at Multiple Vaccines and the Immune System	p. 120
Part 3 Scheduling Safety	p. 123
Chapter 8 Vaccines for Children	p. 125
Understanding Mom-to-Baby Immunity	p. 125
Breastfeeding benefits	p. 126
Antibodies passed on during pregnancy	p. 126
Getting a Reminder of the Effectiveness and Importance of Vaccinations	p. 127
Focusing on Vaccinations in the First Year of Life	p. 127
Hepatitis B	p. 128
Rotavirus	p. 129
DTaP (Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis)	p. 131
Hib	p. 132
IPV (inactivated polio vaccine)	p. 132
Influenza	p. 133
PCV13	p. 134
Knowing New Vaccinations for Toddlers	p. 134
MMR (measles, mumps, rubella)	p. 136
Varicella or MMRV	p. 139
Hepatitis A	p. 140
Surveying a Few Vaccines for Ages 4 to 6	p. 140
Adding Some School-Age Vaccinations	p. 141
Human papillomavirus (HPV)	p. 141
Meningococcal conjugate (MenACWY)	p. 142
Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap)	p. 142
Needing a Booster: Vaccines for Teens	p. 143
Catching Up on Childhood Vaccines	p. 144
Spreading vaccines out	p. 144
Starting vaccines late	p. 144
Adopting a child from another country	p. 145
Checking Out Vaccine Schedules Around the World	p. 146
Chapter 9 Vaccines for Adults	p. 147
Vaccines When You're 19-26 Years Old	p. 147
Your yearly flu shot	p. 148
The COVID-19 vaccine	p. 149
A Tdap or Td booster	p. 150
Vaccines When You're 27-49 Years Old	p. 151
Vaccines When You're 50-64 Years Old	p. 151
Vaccines When You're 65-Plus Years Old	p. 153
Influenza	p. 153
Tdap	p. 155
Pneumococcal vaccines	p. 156
Vaccines Before and During Pregnancy	p. 156
Vaccines for Travelers	p. 157
Making sure you're up to date on routine vaccines	p. 158
Getting other vaccines depending on your destination	p. 158
Catching Up: If Your Parents/Guardians Didn't Vaccinate You	p. 160
Chapter 10 Spelling Out Who May Face Risks	p. 161
Knowing When to Avoid or Limit Vaccines	p. 161
Considering vaccines and cancer	p. 162
Vaccines and immune disorders	p. 163
Vaccines after organ transplantation	p. 164
Understanding Vaccines and Allergies	p. 165
Allergies to vaccine ingredients and components	p. 165
Different types of reactions	p. 168
Recognizing reactions that actually aren't allergies	p. 169
Taking precautions before vaccination	p. 169
Assessing Reactions to the COVID-19 Vaccine	p. 170
Rare cases of anaphylaxis	p. 170
Other types of reactions	p. 170
Inspecting ingredients found in current COVID-19 vaccines	p. 171
Getting the COVID-19 vaccine after you've had COVID-19	p. 173
Chapter 11 Anti-Vaxxers and Debunking Myths About Vaccines	p. 175
Studying the Rise of Vaccine Hesitancy	p. 176
Understanding why some people don't vaccinate	p. 176
Looking at the early anti-vaxxers	p. 178
Debunking Common Vaccine Myths	p. 179
Myth: Diseases were disappearing before vaccines were invented	p. 180
Myth: Vaccines cause serious side effects, illnesses, and death	p. 180
Myth: Kids don't need to be vaccinated so young	p. 181
Myth: Kids don't need to be vaccinated when illnesses don't exist in their country	p. 184
Myth: Giving multiple vaccines at the same time overloads the immune system	p. 184
Myth: Vaccines can cause the disease they are supposed to prevent	p. 185
Myth: Not getting vaccinated affects only me	p. 186
Myth: Natural immunity is always best	p. 186
Myth: The MMR vaccine causes autism	p. 187
Myth: Vaccines contain harmful chemicals	p. 188
Reviewing Vaccine Recalls	p. 189
Part 4 The Part of Tens	p. 191
Chapter 12 Five People Who Created Ten (Or More) Modern Vaccines	p. 193
Edward Jenner: Snuffing Out Smallpox	p. 193
Louis Pasteur: Ridding the World of Rabies	p. 194
Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin: Putting Polio Behind Us	p. 195
Maurice Hilleman: The Master of Modern Vaccines	p. 196
Chapter 13 Ten Diseases Without Vaccines, from A to Z	p. 199
Avian Influenzas (Bird Flu)	p. 200
Cytomegalovirus (CMV)	p. 200
Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)	p. 201
Hepatitis C	p. 202
Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) 1 and 2	p. 203
HIV/AIDS	p. 204
Lyme Disease	p. 205
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)	p. 207
West Nile Virus	p. 208
Zika Virus	p. 209
Chapter 14 The Ten Most Lethal Major Pandemics	p. 211
Antonine Plague (165-180)	p. 212
Plague of Justinian (541-750)	p. 212
Bubonic Plague (Black Death) (1346-1353)	p. 213
Cholera (1846-1860)	p. 214
Third Plague Pandemic (1855-1960)	p. 215
Influenza (Russian Flu) (1889-1890)	p. 215
Influenza (Spanish Flu) (1918-1919)	p. 216
Influenza (Asian Flu) (1957-1958)	p. 217
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) (1981-Present)	p. 217
COVID-19 (2020-Present)	p. 218
Chapter 15 Ten Ways to Boost Your Immune System	p. 219
Getting Your Vaccinations	p. 219
Decreasing Stress	p. 220
Eating Well	p. 220
Maintaining a Healthy Weight	p. 221
Getting Enough Sleep	p. 221
Exercising for Immunity	p. 222
Saying No to Smoking	p. 222
Drinking Only in Moderation	p. 223
Staying Connected	p. 223
Considering Supplements	p. 224
Index	p. 225

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