Parents are normally confused on what do Healthcare Professional mean by Combination Vaccines.
Below are a few examples:
1) Bivalent Vaccine = Offers protection against 2 types of vaccine-preventable disease eg. hepatitis A & B
2) ) Trivalent Vaccine = Offers protection against 3 types of vaccine-preventable disease eg. tetanus, diptheria, whooping cough, measles,mumps,and rubella.
3) Quadrivalent Vaccine = Offers protection against 4 types of vaccine-preventable diseases eg. mumps, measles, chicken pox and rubella.
4) Pentavalent Vaccine = Offers protection against 5 types of vaccine-preventable disease eg. tetanus, whooping cough, polio, Haemophilus influenzae type b(Hib), diphteria.
5) Hexavalent Vaccine = Offers protection against 6 different types of vaccine-preventable disease eg. tetanus, diphetria, whooping cough, hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae b(Hib), polio.
These are combination vaccines because a single vaccine can protect against more than one type of vaccine-preventable disease.
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