BSC 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 49: Hepatitis B Vaccine, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis A Vaccine

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12 Jul 2018
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Transmitted in saliva and respiratory secretions, it replicates in the host"s respiratory tract and causes swelling of one or both of the parotid glands below the ear and near the angle of the jaw. Fever is sometimes present, and in adult males, complications may occur if the virus infects the testis. Immunity to mumps is rendered by an injection of the mmr vaccine, using attenuated mumps virus. Hepatitis a is caused by an rna virus usually placed in the picornaviridae family. The virus passes among individuals by the fecal oral route, and the disease is sometimes called infectious hepatitis. Individuals are contagious before they display symptoms and after symptoms have lessened. Tissue damage is accompanied by vomiting, nausea, dark urine, and jaundice (a yellow discoloration of the skin and the whites of the eyes). Immunization may be rendered with an injection of the hepatitis a vaccine containing inactivated viruses.

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