NURS 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Meningococcal Disease, Serotype, Intellectual Disability
17 Jan 2021
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Is important to discuss in informed consent, along with educating on the disease we immunize against. January 1st 2021: mmr-var vaccine second dose comes at 18 months of age. Membrane formed over the back of the throat a bacteria with a toxin that infects the nose, throat or skin causes breathing problems, heart failure, nerve damage and kidney failure. 1/10 people die from this natural infection does not always create immunity droplet spread. Pertussis (whooping cough) lasts 6-12 weeks (most commonly known as the 100 day cough) 20-30% of infants will be hospitalized trouble breathing and whooping coughing noises. 1/400 infants will have brain damage immunity from infection is not lifelong droplet spread (especially from older family members to unimmunized individuals) 90% of children who develop hepatitis b will be asymptomatic carriers half of infected people will show no symptoms.
