Vaccines: how the immunity of flocks works

The concept of herd immunity – the principle by which a high percentage of vaccinates prevents infectious agents from circulating and triggering epidemics – we have written several times. But as often happens, the images are more effective than words: in this animation, the user of Reddit theotheredmund shows, in a matter of seconds, because […]

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If the antibiotic no longer has an effect

From hospitals to the kitchen: antibiotic resistance can reach us even where you do not expect it. Between 5,000 and 7,000 deaths a year in hospital, says the SIMIT (Society of Infectious and Tropical Diseases) patients with compromised immune systems who lose their lives not for the pathology for which they were hospitalized, but because […]