Chickenpox and shingles may be closely related, but vaccination for the two is a separate affair. The pair share a root disease, varicella zoster, that activates to create each virus.
And yet, you need separate vaccines to prevent each disease.
Why is this? Why wouldn’t the same vaccine work for both? There are a few reasons.
When traveling abroad, there are a variety of options for travel health and travel medicine. Many individuals don’t know where to go or what to do when starting their journey. Often, these individuals embark on a long search, but what they find may not be best option for them. We’ll look at some of the pre-travel options and consider what is best for travelers visiting various places around the globe.
Every college graduate is familiar with the inevitable question from aunts, uncles, and family friends around graduation: What’s your plan for the future? Often, answers range from starting a new job to enrolling in graduate school. But what if you’re still exploring your options?
Louis Pasteur, the French chemist who lived in the 19th century, is famous for developing fundamental scientific concepts. He demonstrated the process of fermentation and debunked spontaneous generation, an erroneous belief that bacteria came from inanimate matter such as dust. Pasteur is also recognized for his work on vaccines; he was the first scientist to use live viruses in vaccinations. Pasteur’s work in infectious diseases was momentous for the development of the rabies and anthrax vaccines specifically. Rabies and anthrax are animal-born diseases that cause serious symptoms in humans.
If you’ve ever wondered what makes you so tasty to mosquitoes compared to other friends and family members, you’re not alone. It’s not your imagination that some people are tastier to mosquitoes than others. While there are plenty of myths and urban legends about why some people get more mosquito bites than others, scientists have found real evidence about why you’re itchier than your pals.
