Question

Kale has delivered a baby.
a) Suggest the immunization schedule for the baby in the first six months.
b) What are all the diseases that can be cured as per the schedule?

Answer 1

Immunization is carried out by several methods, most often by vaccines. Vaccines against disease-causing microorganisms may prepare the body's immune system to help combat or avoid infection.

Complete answer:
a) Above chart shows the immunization schedule for the baby in the first six months.

| Birth| 6 weeks| 10 weeks | 14 weeks | 6 months| 9 months| 9-12 months| 12 months
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
BCG| Yes| | | | | | |
Hep B| Yes| Yes| | | Yes| | |
OPV| Yes| | | | Yes| Yes| |
DPT| | Yes| Yes| Yes| | | |
IPV| | Yes| Yes| Yes| | | |
HB| | Yes| Yes| Yes| | | |
Rota V| | Yes| Yes| Yes| | | |
PCB| | Yes| Yes| Yes| | | |
MMR| | | | | | Yes| |
Typhoid | | | | | | | Yes|
Hep A| | | | | | | | Yes

b) The diseases against which immunisation can be done are :
i) Tuberculosis
ii) Tetanus
iii) Diphtheria
iv) Influenza
v) Rotavirus
vi) Pertussis
vii) Pneumococcal infection
viii) Polio.
ix) hepatitis

Additional information:
When a human is in contact with, for example, a microbe, successful immunization may occur spontaneously. The immune system will eventually produce antibodies against the microbe and other defences against it. The immune response to this microbe will be very successful the next time; this is the case with many of the infections in childhood that a person catches only once, but then is immune.

Passive immunization is when a person is passed to a person through pre-synthesized elements of the immune system such that the body does not need to generate these elements itself. Antibodies can currently be used for passive immunization. This immunization process continues to work very fast, but it is short-lived since the antibodies are naturally broken down and they will vanish if there are no B cells to create more antibodies.

Note: A vaccine is a biological preparation that supplies a certain infectious illness with active acquired immunity. Usually, a vaccine involves an agent that resembles a microorganism that induces disease and is mostly produced from damaged or destroyed forms of the microbe, its metabolites, or one of its surface proteins. The agent activates the body's immune system to detect, kill and further recognize the agent as a threat and to eliminate all of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may meet in the future.