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Vaccines: Effectives and Safe?

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Nicole Yordán

Vaccination is recognized as one of the most successful and cost-efficient health interventions. However, due to studies that have long be retracted, the scientific community has been fighting the false notion that vaccines are toxic. 

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Vaccines: Effectives and Safe?

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Nicole Yordán

Vaccination is recognized as one of the most successful and cost-efficient health interventions. However, due to studies that have long be retracted, the scientific community has been fighting the false notion that vaccines are toxic. 

For the full article, please refer to the Spanish version of this site. 

 

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Zika vaccine to be tested in Puerto Rico

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Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc. will start clinical trials for a DNA-based vaccine against Zika in Puerto Rico.

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August: National Immunization Awareness Month

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Since the moment we are born, we are exposed to a variety of infectious diseases caused by viruses and other microorganisms that live around us. The common cold and the feared flu are all part of our daily lives. However, we have recently seen emerging diseases that are alarming, for example the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa and the 2015 Zika outbreak in Brazil that is now a threat to the rest of the Americas. This begs the question: If there were vaccines against these diseases, would you receive them? Although scientists work hard to develop these vaccines, it is not a reality at the moment. The good news is that there are many other infections that can be prevented if you get vaccinated against them.

But, what is a vaccine?

The law and the right to vaccinate

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Aníbal J. Valentín Acevedo

Second of two articles about vaccination.

Dr. Aníbal J. Valentín Acevedo explains what are the laws and the rights about vaccinating children. 

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Few vaccinated against human papilloma virus

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Marga Parés Arroyo / mpares@elnuevodia.com

The vaccination against human papilloma virus (HPV) in Puerto Rico has been under the expected levels. The vaccines against HPV is the only vaccine known to help prevent cancer.

 

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Health department explains controversy about mercury and vaccination

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Por Ivelisse Rivera Quiñones / ivelisse.rivera@gfrmedia.com

The Department of Health explained that the current vaccines do not contain timerosal, a derivate of mercury.

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Department of Health clears up misconceptions and misinformation about thimerosal and vaccines

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Ivelisse Rivera Quiñones / ivelisse.rivera@gfrmedia.com

The Department of Health and several pediatric medical organizations clarified that all vaccines currently administered to children do not contain the preservative thimerosal, a mercury derivative. Most adult vaccines, except a few against the flu and rabies also do not carry thimerosal. This preservative was removed from vaccines in 2001, as a preventive measure before its safety could be confirmed. Since then, several studies have shown no proof to link thimerosal to neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's or autism.

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Vaccination against papilloma is scarce

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Marga Parés Arroyo / Mpares@elnuevodia.com

Despite its potential to help prevent cervical cancer, the vaccination rates against the human papilloma virus are very low, partly due to lack of access and educaction about this vaccine.

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