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Best healthy diet

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The best diet for those of us who wish focus on our improving health, or increasing fitness and achieving high performance is a plant based one. We just need to avoid all sources of animal protein in our diet.  Please watch

Can polio vaccine cause polio?

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To understand whether Polio vaccine can cause polio, we need to understand the different types of virus and the vaccines. Wild Polio exists in 3 types with type 2 being most efficient. So vaccines need to target all 3 types. There are two types of Polio vaccines which differ in their cost, efficiency, and mode of administration. 

Pneumonia vaccination

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There are two variants of pneumonia vaccination - Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV or PPSV) and Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). There are some key differences between them in terms of effectiveness, number of strains vaccinated against, apart from cost which I summarise below.