🧬 A Complete PDF Guide On Vaccines 💉📚

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💉 Vaccines are a cornerstone of modern medicine, protecting us from a wide range of #infectious #diseases 🦠🛡️.
They train the immune system 🧠💪 to recognize and fight pathogens without causing the disease itself.

🧪 Traditional vaccines introduce weakened or inactivated pathogens into the body, prompting the immune system to develop defenses ⚡.
However, a new generation of vaccines is emerging: #DNAvaccines 🧬🚀, which includes mRNA and DNA vaccines offering faster and more targeted immune protection.


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🔹 1. Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (HPV) 🧬💖

📌 What they are: Contain virus-like particles (VLPs), not live virus or bacteria 🦠❌
⚙️ How they work: Stimulate a strong and long-lasting immune response 💪🛡️. Protects against cervical, oral, and other HPV-related cancers 🎗️.


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🔹 2. Inactivated (Killed) Vaccines ⚰️🦠

📌 What they are: Contain virus or bacteria that have been killed ❌
⚙️ How they work: Provide a safer alternative to live vaccines, may require booster shots 🔁💉 to maintain immunity.
✅ Used in both humans and animals (e.g., rabies, polio).


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🔹 3. Subunit, Recombinant, Polysaccharide, and Conjugate Vaccines 🧪🧬

📌 What they are: Use specific parts (like proteins or sugars) of the virus or bacteria 🧫
⚙️ How they work: Target the immune system to specific components 🎯🛡️.
✅ These are very safe and widely used in humans and animals.


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🔹 4. Toxoid Vaccines ☣️🦠

📌 What they are: Contain inactivated toxins produced by bacteria
⚙️ How they work: Teach the immune system to fight the toxin rather than the bacteria itself 🧠🛡️.
✅ Examples: Tetanus (human) and Clostridium vaccines (veterinary).


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🔹 5. mRNA Vaccines 🧬💉✨

📌 What they are: Contain messenger RNA that instructs cells to make a viral protein 🧫⚙️
⚙️ How they work: Train the immune system without using live virus 🚫🦠.
✅ Examples: COVID-19 vaccines; rapid, highly effective, and safe.


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🔹 6. DNA Vaccines (Emerging) 🧬🌱

📌 What they are: Use engineered DNA to produce an antigen and stimulate immunity 🧪🛡️
📊 Status: Still under research and development for human use 🔬📈
✅ Currently used in some veterinary vaccines, e.g., for horses, fish, and livestock 🐴🐟🐄.


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💡 Key takeaway: Vaccines protect individuals and communities 🌍👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, reduce disease spread, and are a cornerstone of One Health 🐾🩺.


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📥 Download PDF: https://lnkd.in/eY9nrYdY

#Vaccines 💉 #Immunology 🧬 #OneHealth 🌍 #VeterinaryMedicine 🐾 #HumanHealth 🩺 #InfectiousDiseases 🦠 #mRNAVaccine 💻 #DNAVaccine 🧬 #PublicHealth 📊 #PreventiveMedicine 🛡️ #SubunitVaccine 🧪 #ToxoidVaccine ☣️ #AnimalHealth 🐄🐶🐴 #HealthAwareness 💡 #ScientificEducation 🔬 #MedicalEducation 📚| 11 commentaires sur LinkedIn

Every organization needs health literacy trailblazers .Health literacy is not primarily an individual challenge. It’s a systems challenge involving staff and management at all levels from frontline to the boardroom.

A health literacy trailblazer is not someone who tells people to “try harder” or “be more informed.” It’s someone who asks why we built systems that require people to struggle in the first place.

Trailblazing in health literacy means:
🔷redesigning organizations, not just messages
🔷treating clarity as a leadership responsibility
🔷using measurement to make invisible barriers visible
🔷understanding empowerment as something systems must enable, not something individuals must earn,

This kind of work rarely makes headlines.
It’s slow. It’s structural. And it’s often resisted.
But it’s also where trust is built.
Where equity becomes possible.

And where people no longer need to be experts just to receive safe, respectful care.

In my view, that’s the kind of trailblazing our health systems need now.

#HealthLiteracy #OrganizationalHealthLiteracy #SystemsThinking #Leadership #Equity #HealthLiteracyTrailblazer

🗣️ It's HPV awareness month!

Even with highly effective vaccines authorized for adults and available in sufficient supply, vaccination rates among adults remain far too low.

Expanding adult HPV vaccination offers a vital opportunity to reduce disease burden, strengthen long-term health outcomes, and accelerate progress toward broader cancer prevention goals.

Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dZr8GVBU

Watch the full video discussion featuring our CEO, Prof Bettina Borisch, here: https://lnkd.in/dMedAHj7

#hpv #vaccination #immunization #preventiongoals #cancer #publichealth

📢 New publication in Frontiers in Public Health!
🔎 “Educational interventions and communication strategies to improve HPV immunization uptake: a systematic literature review”

✨ What’s inside
This systematic literature review, conducted within the PartnERship to Contrast HPV (#PERCH) project, explores international evidence on the educational interventions and communication strategies employed by healthcare professionals (HCPs) to improve #HPV vaccine coverage. Analyzing studies published between 2006 and 2025, the review focuses on #WHO-recommended target populations, as well as parents and other key stakeholders involved in vaccination decision-making.

📊 Key findings
- 17 studies included (6 systematic reviews and 11 primary studies).
- Most interventions focused on education (71%), while 29% addressed communication strategies.
- Parents and influential stakeholders were the primary target in 59% of studies; vaccine-eligible individuals in 41%.
- The most commonly used tools were narrative videos, followed by written informational materials, social media, and person-to-person communication.
- Tailored, audience-specific approaches emerged as critical to improving awareness and acceptance of HPV vaccination.

🌍 Why it matters
HPV continues to cause a significant global cancer burden, despite the availability of effective vaccines. This review highlights that well-designed, evidence-based educational and communication strategies are essential to close vaccination gaps, support informed decision-making, and promote equitable access. Strengthening these interventions is key to informing public health policies and supporting the WHO’s goal of eliminating cervical cancer by 2030.

🔗 Read the full article: https://lnkd.in/d8ajRPbz

👥 Authors
#FlorianaD’Ambrosio, Romina Sezzatini, Bucciardini Raffaella, Maida Ada, #AnnaNisticò, Elisabetta De Vito, walter ricciardi, Stefania Boccia, Giovanna Elisa CALABRO'

#HPV #Vaccination #PublicHealth #HealthCommunication #Prevention #HealthPromotion #Immunization #CancerPrevention #SystematicReview #PERCH

Denmark vaccine schedule. Reference or outlier ?
“The U.S. is highly heterogeneous with high travel and a lot more people than most European countries. Denmark’s total population isn’t even equivalent to NYC”
“Taking such from a country that has 1/200 of our population and is smaller than some of our smallest states, and then applying it to a country that’s so much bigger with such a broader population is just asinine, to be frank”
It’s worth knowing that Denmark is “an outlier among developed nations” when it comes to its vaccine schedule. The country has “probably one of the smallest vaccine schedules out of even the European Union”
“And it doesn’t follow the World Health Organization vaccine recommendations, which, our schedule is more in line with the World Health Organization as well as these other giant countries that have some of the best infant mortalities and life expectancies”
The fact that Denmark’s vaccine schedule isn’t as comprehensive as other countries is evident in its disease burden. “They also have hundreds, if not thousands, of kids hospitalized for [diseases] routinely that we just don’t see in the U.S. — like rotavirus,” Hughes explained.
Unlike the U.S., Denmark also has universal health care, which allows its citizens to more easily get medical attention.

A little bit of advertising for my dear baby BIESTMILCH = Colostrum
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Study Finds Bovine Colostrum 3× More Effective Than Flu Vaccination in Preventing Flu Illness
Participants experienced ~60% fewer illness days and ~75% fewer flu-like episodes with bovine colostrum compared to flu vaccination.

A clinical study published in Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis evaluated whether bovine colostrum could prevent influenza illness more effectively than seasonal flu vaccination.
The investigators followed 144 healthy adults and 65 very high-risk cardiovascular patients during flu season, comparing four strategies: flu vaccination alone, bovine colostrum alone, colostrum plus vaccination, and no prophylaxis. Participants were prospectively monitored over 3 months for flu-like illness episodes, total days of illness, complications, hospitalizations, and death. The study measured real-world illness burden—how often people got sick and how long they stayed sick.

Across both healthy and high-risk populations, bovine colostrum consistently outperformed flu vaccination, reducing flu illness by approximately threefold.

Published by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH, in Courageous Discourse on Substack

If the immune system recognises the virus but responds quietly, without effective inflammatory clearance, could infection persist longer, recur more frequently, or pass unnoticed?

There is a small but important cohort emerging from recent immunology research that deserves more attention.

Repeated exposure to SARS-CoV-2 spike protein through vaccination, infection, or both, appears in some individuals to drive very high levels of IgG4 antibodies. IgG4 is a tolerant antibody. It signals the immune system to stand down rather than escalate.

On the one hand, this may reduce the risk of excessive inflammation or cytokine storm, which is clearly beneficial.

But the inverse question is equally important, and far less discussed:
Does immune tolerance also increase the risk of poor viral clearance and prolonged exposure?

In medicine, extremes are rarely optimal, as too much inflammation is dangerous, but too little response to an active viral infection may also carry risk.

Are we increasingly seeing patterns of individuals who:
- have minimal or no reaction to vaccination
- report no symptoms even with repeated exposure
- yet exist in environments of ongoing viral circulation

From an immunological perspective, this raises the possibility of IgG4-dominant tolerance rather than protective balance.

Science progresses by asking uncomfortable but necessary questions.
Is this one we should now be taking more seriously?

#covid #medicine #research
| 17 commentaires sur LinkedIn

Digital health literacy remains a high priority in a digitalized world. I’m pleased to join this new initiative as an advisor and support the vision of Dr. Olga Tzortzatou - Nanopoulou and her team.

The Hub is open to all and will serve as go-to place for like-minded colleagues engaged in digital health and AI:
https://lnkd.in/dxnsCSMw

#HealthLiteracy #DigitalHealthLiteracy #AIHealthLiteracy #PolicyHub Anna Andersen Rolsma Orestis Trasanidis Monique Eisenberg Kozlakidis Zisis Kozlakidis

The CDC's new childhood immunization schedule represents one of the most dramatic changes in childhood disease prevention policy in decades.

“When it comes to explaining these changes in recommendations, the short answer is that the CDC demoted several vaccines that used to be in the plain-and-simple, ‘you should get this vaccine’ category, to specialized sub-categories that have their own criteria and implications,” said Prof. Jason L. Schwartz. “The concern is this is going to create widespread confusion about when those ‘special-category’ vaccines should be used, which will doubtlessly mean fewer kids will get those vaccines and more kids will get those diseases.”

Some key questions and answers:

❓Can my child still receive all of the vaccines from the old schedule?
➡️ Yes, and the American Academy of Pediatrics advises that they do.

❓Will insurance cover all vaccines?
➡️ Yes. All of the vaccines are still available at no cost to families.

❓What does “shared clinical decision-making" mean?
➡️ A conversation with a health care provider about the risks and benefits of a vaccine. Parents and providers have long had these types of conversations routinely.

Find our full breakdown of what parents should know in the comments.

"This is an important win for the plaintiffs, though it’s far from the end of the journey. The judge allowed the case to go forward, suggesting that AAP – an organization that long provided immunization recommendations to members – suffered real harm by having to deal with the additional burden the Secretary’s actions imposed, as did their members by having additional financial burdens and the threat of litigation.

The case can now proceed, and however it ends, the government may now tread more carefully. The case also charts a path to arguing for standing to challenge additional steps Kennedy takes to reduce vaccine access and create confusion, even if he does not aggressively and immediately deny vaccine access to large numbers of people."

💉 Peut-on se vacciner contre la désinformation scientifique ?
La confiance dans la science vacille. Entre fake news sur les vaccins et essor des médecines alternatives non régulées, la désinformation est devenue un véritable enjeu de santé publique.

Comment résister à cette vague ? Quel rôle les médias doivent-ils jouer pour restaurer le lien avec le public ?

Pour un débattre, retrouvez notre panel d'expert, le 15 janvier prochain à l'occasion de Médias en Seine :
- Julia D. (Fonds AXA pour le Progrès humain)
- Mathilde Fontez (Epsiloon)
- Solenne LE HEN (franceinfo)
- Mathieu Molimard (Pneumologue et pharmacologue)

🗓️ Rendez-vous le 15 janvier à 10h50 à la Maison de la Radio et de la Musique ou en ligne.

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Another situation where anecdotes are used to deny the facts and the science. Individuals are still dying from COVID, albeit at a much lower rate. We are seeing huge numbers of flu cases. Both would be significantly reduced if these individuals would be vaccinated. What is not imagination is that more than ever we are seeing social media flowed by an anti-vaccine narrative, or one, like this being pushed by Dr Philip McMillan, to create vaccine hesitancy. It is misinformation that is killing people, either from the flu, COVID, or not seeking proper care by being suggested snake oil regimen rather than proper, evidence-based care.

📄 Neue Publikation bei JMIR Online Journal of Public Health Informatics

Gesundheitsinformationen online – eher nichts für ältere Menschen?
👉 Die Daten sprechen eine andere Sprache: Fast 80 % der über 60-jährigen Internetnutzer:innen in der Schweiz nutzen sie. UND
entscheidend dabei ist weniger das Alter oder die Gesundheitskompetenz, sondern digitale Kompetenz und Vertrauen.

Unser Paper ist nun als Open-Access bei JMIR Publications erschienen:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/e53udx-Z

Danke an alle Beteiligten im Projekt (Alexander Seifert, Samin Sepahniya und Carlo Fabian) –
und an die vielen älteren Menschen, die ihre Erfahrungen mit uns geteilt haben. 👏

🔜 To be continued …
In den kommenden Monaten sollten zwei weitere Papers von uns folgen:
– eines das die Rolle der digitalen Gesundheitskompetenz beleuchtet
– sowie eines, das die Entwicklung dieser Kompetenz bei älteren Menschen in der Schweiz seit 2020 untersucht.
Stay tuned.
Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit FHNW
#DigitalHealth #DigitalHealthEquity #PublicHealth #HealthyAging #DigitalLiteracy #HealthLiteracy

Important review for those interested in social norms interventions in the context of health https://lnkd.in/eXtgRqBw

My mom was talking about polio shots with a friend of hers and the whole conversation was not scientifically correct. So I had to step in and explain a few things.
Big Love to mothers

Vaccination
Vaccination refers to the actual administration of a vaccine into the body. It is an event—the moment a healthcare provider gives you a shot, oral drops, or a nasal spray.  

The Method
It involves introducing a "mock" version of a germ (weakened, killed, or just a genetic blueprint like mRNA) to your system.  

The Goal: To "train" the immune system without making the person sick.  

The Variables: Vaccination involves doses, schedules, and delivery methods (intramuscular, subcutaneous, etc.).  

Immunization
Immunization is the physiological process by which a person becomes protected against a disease. It is the internal work your body does after the vaccination or after surviving a natural infection.  

The Mechanism
Your immune system recognizes the vaccine's ingredients as "foreign," triggers white blood cells, and creates antibodies and memory cells.  

The Timing: Immunization doesn't happen the second you get a shot. It typically takes 10–14 days for the body to build full protection.  

Active Immunization: Your body makes its own antibodies (from a vaccine or getting sick).  

Passive Immunization: You receive pre-made antibodies (like a baby getting them from a mother or through an injection of immunoglobulin).  



🧪 How Vaccination Leads to Immunization
When you receive a vaccine, your body undergoes a specific sequence of events to reach the state of immunization:

Introduction: The vaccine enters the body, presenting a harmless "antigen."  

Detection: Specialized "sentinel" cells find the antigen and report it to your lymph nodes.  

Response: B-cells and T-cells are activated to destroy the mimic invader.  

Memory: The body stores "blueprints" (memory cells) so that if the real germ ever enters, it can be defeated before you even feel symptoms.  

Key Distinction: You can be vaccinated but not immunized. This happens in "vaccine failure" cases where a person's body doesn't produce a strong enough immune response to the shot to actually become resistant to the disease.

Medical myths don’t start in laboratories.

They start in conversations — and sometimes, in pharmacies.

During the early days of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout,
A patient walked into my pharmacy looking genuinely anxious.
He said:
“I won’t take the vaccine. I heard someone died after it… and another person went crazy.”

He wasn’t joking.
He was completely convinced.

That belief didn’t come from personal experience.
It came from medical myths spreading faster than facts.

Over the years, I’ve heard many similar concerns in the pharmacy, such as:
– “Vaccines are not safe.”
– “Vaccines overload the immune system.”
– “Vaccines cause autism.”
– “Good hygiene alone is enough — we don’t really need vaccines.”

According to the World Health Organization, all of these are myths.
and extensive scientific evidence shows that vaccines are closely monitored, safe, and effective, with no proven link to autism, immune system overload, or mental illness.

The real impact of these myths goes beyond fear.
They lead to lower vaccination rates —
and this is one of the reasons we are still seeing measles outbreaks today,
As many recently infected patients were not vaccinated against measles.

What I’ve learned as a pharmacist is that the real challenge
is not misinformation alone —
It is a combination of fear and loss of trust.
That’s why the World Health Organization emphasizes that vaccine concerns
should be addressed with empathy, dialogue, and trust — not confrontation.

My question to you 👇
What is the most common or surprising medical myth you’ve heard that people strongly believe?

#HealthEducation
#VaccineMyths
#PublicHealth
#MeaslesAwareness
#PharmacistRole
#TrustInScience| 48 commentaires sur LinkedIn

"This is a standard manipulation of truth that the anti-vax movement has coined."

🧠 En 2025, j’ai collecté, tagué et classé chaque article, rapport, billet de blog ou étude scientifique que j'ai rencontré sur la #GuerreCognitive.

Tout cela se retrouve aujourd’hui dans une base documentaire structurée, prête à être consultée.

👁️ Pour moi, c’est un repère indispensable dans une littérature qui ne cesse de croître.
🤝 Pour ceux qui s’intéressent au sujet, c’est un point de départ neutre et ouvert.

🔗𝗟𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗰𝗶 : https://lnkd.in/d8qRa-PD

💡𝗩𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗵𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘇 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝗲𝗿 ?
N’hésitez pas à me le signaler. L’objectif est de faire évoluer cet outil de façon collaborative, en gardant la rigueur et la pertinence au cœur du projet.

🙏 Merci à tous ceux qui ont déjà contribué indirectement en partageant leurs lectures. J’espère que cette ressource pourra soutenir vos propres recherches et réflexions.

Et bonne année !

#CognitiveWarfare #Défense #Stratégie #Technologie #Neurosciences
#influence #FIMI | 26 comments on LinkedIn

As the United States faces its highest number of annual #measles cases in at least 33 years, reporting from The Washington Post shows that vaccination rates in kindergarten classrooms have dropped dramatically since the COVID-19 pandemic, in many cases below levels needed for herd immunity.

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Missed the deadline or missing any sound data to prove this false claim ?

📄 A new methodological paper shares a practical framework to ensure that standard health economic evaluations capture the additional benefits combination products can generate beyond disease prevention alone.

Authors propose that the value of combination vaccines can be quantified across four domains:
💡 Reduced tangible and intangible costs for caregivers (including time and travel)
💡 Operational efficiencies for health systems
💡 The opportunity cost of limited slots in vaccination schedules
💡 The benefits of more streamlined schedules overall

Find out more here, including a hypothetical case study: https://lnkd.in/eBGFqTG5

Authors: Mark Jit, Allison Portnoy, Clint Pecenka, William Hausdorff & Christopher J. Gill. New York University, Boston University School of Public Health, PATH, Gates Foundation #VaccinesWork

Read my latest: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eQMH8NY7

The organic farming and food industry is based on clean-food ideology, chemophobia, and the fantasy that “natural” is a scientific argument. It is born from the same wellness industry that sells detoxes, “clean” eating, supplements, and anti-chemical fearmongering, wrapped in conspiracy-lined distrust of scientific institutions and regulation. Organic is not a science-based food system; it’s a belief system.

Just like the wellness industry, it undermines science, harms public health, deepens inequality, and drives policy that prioritizes vibes over evidence.

People believe organic is the opposite of anti-vaccine ideology. It isn’t; it’s cut from the same cloth. Anti-vaccine ideology praises “natural immunity”; organic advocates praise “natural farming.” Anti-vaccine ideology fearmongers about “toxins” in vaccines; organic activists do the same for “toxic pesticides.”

Anti-vaccine ideology demonizes “Big Pharma” while organic crusaders vilify “Big Ag.”

Same tactics, different targets.

Organic farming is not safer, not more nutritious, not better for the environment, and not pesticide-free. It is just marketed to make you feel that way.

The National Organic Program (NOP) was not created for safety, health, or sustainability; it was created in 1990 as a marketing standard. It is the agricultural counterpart to the 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). DSHEA removed FDA safety oversight of dietary supplements; the NOP did the same for “natural” farming methods. Neither require proof of safety or benefit, but both fuel profitable industries; organic farming is 22–35 percent more lucrative than conventional.

Read more details here: https://lnkd.in/eQMH8NY7

#science #organic #health #wellness

Health literacy empowers people to understand, decide, and act for their health.
It is essential for autonomy, equity, and the realisation of the right to health. In 2026 the Council of Europe will place particular attention on health literacy as a key driver of empowerment and human rights. Health protection - Council of Europe action.