Vaccine protects against various infections and diseases, those infectious disease which can be prevented by vaccination are commonly called Vaccine preventable disease (VPDs). The top Vaccine-Preventable Diseases are;
- Tubercle bacillus- Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine
- Poliovirus- Oral polio vaccine (OPV) vaccine,
- Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) vaccine
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae
- Diphtheria- Diphtheria toxoid vaccine
- Clostridium tetani
- Tetanus- Tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccine
- Pertussis- Whole-cell pertussis (wP) vaccine,
- Acellular (cell-free) pertussis (aP) vaccine
- Measles virus Measles vaccine
- Hepatitis B virus- Hepatitis B vaccine
- Rotavirus- Rotavirus vaccine
- Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib)- Hib conjugate vaccine
- Streptococcus Pneumoniae
- (Pneumococcal infection)- Pneumococcal vaccines
- Yellow fever virus- Yellow fever vaccine.
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These are the 8 killer diseases: Tuberculosis, Diphtheria, Whooping cough, Tetanus, Polio, Hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenza, Pneumonia, Measles and Rotavirus.
