Vaccines
Therapeutic preparation containing an antigen, i.e. a virus or a segment of a virus or a toxin generated by bacteria, that may have been attenuated, inactivated or killed and which is able to trigger the immune response and generate immunity in an organism.
Narrower Topics
Related Topics: Poultry Diseases, Vaccines
Publications
Common Vaccine Myths
Use of Vaccines in Finfish Aquaculture
What is a vaccine?
Related IFAS Blog Posts
One Health Center graduate students tackle “wicked problems” in their final essay
One Health Center of ExcellenceDecember 14th, 2021At the end of a semester learning about Systems Thinking in One Health, the graduate students of the One Health Center applied their newly learned skills to analyze and suggest solutions to some of the “wicked problems” faced by humanity. The students chose one general topic such as vaccines and the future, anti-microbial resistance, Big […]
Guest Blog: My Tangle with the Delta Variant of COVID-19
One Health Center of ExcellenceSeptember 23rd, 2021As the Zoonotic Diseases Coordinator for the Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County, I am required to remain abreast of emerging zoonotic diseases worldwide. The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which is the virus responsible for causing COVID-19, happens to be one of those diseases. My Experience with COVID I first became aware of the […]
Communicating about Vaccines
Tom ObrezaJanuary 26th, 2021On the COVID-19 front, lately it’s been a battle between good news and bad news. Bad news: Virus spread is worse than ever, with several variant strains of the virus going around that are especially contagious. More than 400,000 people have died in the U.S. so far; last week, the CDC predicted there could be […]
