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31-10-2023

NHSC participates in Health Expo 2023

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Do you know what gets dirty when you wash but stays clean when you don't? Which influenza pandemic caused the most deaths in human history? What disease is named after the hero in a poem written by an Italian doctor and poet Girolamo Fracastoro – a shepherd boy, who was in love and had this disease?

You could find out the answers to these questions at the Health Expo 2023 on Saturday (28 October). Visitors to the exhibition had the opportunity to solve the riddles and learn more about public health and the activities of the National Public Health Centre (NPHC).

Daiva Razmuviene, NPHC representative, gave a presentation on "How vaccines help our bodies develop immunity to communicable diseases ", and the listeners learned that:

  • Vaccination helped eradicate smallpox worldwide.
  • The acquired immunity has an immunological memory whereas the innate immunity does not.
  • Vaccines do not cause disease, but "train" the immune system to defend itself against pathogens.
  • Measles was, and still is, one of the most common causes of death among all vaccine-preventable diseases.

P. S. It gets dirty when you wash but stays clean when you don't. It`s water.
The influenza pandemic that killed the most people is the Spanish flu.
A disease named after the hero of a poem by the poet Girolamo Fracastoro, a shepherd boy in love, is syphilis.


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Last updated: 31-10-2023

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