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How Vaccines Help Eradicate Diseases: A History and Impact
This video explains how vaccines have played a crucial role in eradicating deadly diseases throughout history, using the example of polio. It highlights the way vaccines work by training the immune system to create antibodies, leading to...
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Vaccine
A preparation that can protect against a specific disease. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual definitions. Twig Science Glossary Films reinforce...
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Smallpox: The First Vaccine
How the contagious and lethal smallpox virus was finally eradicated - 150 years after the first chance to prevent a global outbreak was missed. Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. Smallpox is an acute, contagious disease - one of...
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Immune Defence: Part 2
Antibodies combat some of the strongest foreign invaders that enter your body. What are antibodies and how do they work? Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. Whenever a germ or infection enters our body, white blood cells,...
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Eradication of Polio
Vaccines mean that there are now very few new polio cases, but in the early 1900s this wasn't the case. Learn how two scientists, Salk and Sabin, virtually wiped out this potentially deadly disease. Biology - Healthy Living - Polio is a...
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HIV/AIDS: Immune Evaders
What makes HIV the world's most deadly virus? Its abilities to constantly evolve and to attack the body's immune system lie at the heart of its deadly nature. Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)...
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Tasmanian Devil
Find out why the Tasmanian devil is fighting for its life and facing extinction... Biology - Adaptation And Evolution - Learning Points. The Tasmanian devil is a small, carnivorous marsupial. Tasmanian devils are native to the Australian...
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Vaccines
Vaccines can stop us from getting lots of nasty viruses. The world around us - Inventions - Changing lives Learning Points Vaccines can stop us from catching certain diseases. Vaccines and other medical inventions are important in saving...
Bedtime History
Louis Pasteur for Kids | Bedtime History
Join us as we explore the incredible life and groundbreaking discoveries of Louis Pasteur, the father of microbiology. From his early experiments in fermentation to his development of pasteurization, Pasteur's work revolutionized science...
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Battling Viruses: The Body's Defense and Vaccine Power
Delve into the body's immune response against viral infections and the vital role of vaccines in disease prevention. Understand how symptoms like fever and coughing signal the immune system's battle against viruses, and explore the...
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Understanding COVID-19: Prevention and Safety Measures
Discover the origins of COVID-19, named for its discovery in 2019, and the ongoing efforts to develop a vaccine. Learn essential safety measures like frequent handwashing, mask-wearing, and social distancing to slow the virus's spread...
Healthcare Triage
Covid Vaccine for Kids is Safe and Effective
The day has finally come: We have covid vaccines for kids under five. There are lots of questions and a few concerns. Let’s address them!
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A Polio Case in the United States. What Does it Mean?
The surprising approval of the extremely expensive and maybe not that effective drug Aduhelm has been dominating the conversation around Alzheimer's treatments in recent memory. Today, we're getting positive and talking about a very...
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A Fentanyl Vaccine Shows Promise
Fentanyl is many times more potent than heroin or morphine, and is responsible for a lot of overdose deaths. Recent news reports have covered a potential fentanyl vaccine - how does that work, and how far are we from human trials?
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A Vaccine for Breast Cancer?
Cancer prevention is a major goal in health research, and one major milestone was the HPV vaccine, which targets a virus that is responsible for different types of cancer, mainly cervical cancer. Now we’ve got some recent excitement in...
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An RSV Vaccine for Infants
Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, strikes fear into the hearts of parents, especially those with very young babies. It’s not very kind to other compromised populations, either. We’ve been working toward a vaccine for a long time, and...
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Robert Kennedy, Jr. Is Wrong About Vaccine Testing
RFK Jr. is claiming that scientists do not test vaccines with placebo-controlled trials, specifically against a saline placebo, and that all he’s asking for is that they are tested this way, as all other medicines are. On its face alone,...
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Ten Years Later: The HPV Vaccine is Still Incredible & Lifesaving
We love some good vaccine data, and we were pretty excited to see a new, long-term study published this month on cervical cancer outcomes after the HPV vaccine.
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Why Is Measles Making a Comeback?
Measles is really contagious and can easily spread in pockets of unvaccinated people. In February 2024 a health advisory was issued by the Florida Department of Health in Broward County to warn the public about several confirmed cases of...
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Why Don't We Have an HIV Vaccine?
After 40 years of trying, why don’t we have an HIV vaccine? Did you know that even without a vaccine, we have antiviral medication that is 99 percent effective at preventing HIV? So why isn’t that good enough? The U.S. and the world have...
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What to Know About the Monkeypox Outbreak
Thousands of cases of monkeypox have been reported in countries where, historically, the virus is not endemic. But this virus isn’t new. In fact, Monkeypox is currently endemic in parts of West and Central Africa and scientists have...
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Kids and the COVID Vaccine: Everything You Need to Know
Now that children are back in school, they could be bringing home COVID-19 along with their homework. A vaccine could change that. Alok and Sheena explain the vaccine development process and address key issues and questions that are...
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A Vaccine for Malaria!
Malaria kills a lot of people every year, and many of those people are young children. Developing a vaccine against this deadly disease has been a long and difficult journey, but there’s been a breakthrough! While we are still working...
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Relationships and Immunity: The Impact of Happiness and Stress on Flu Vaccination Response
This video discusses how happiness, particularly in the context of a happy marriage, can impact immune response to the flu vaccine. Research conducted at the University of Birmingham found that individuals in happy marriages showed a...