Mumps

the knowledge about vaccines since they are part of our schedule maintenance for our body. Because of the many diseases that are contained at this time, the lost of interest has dissipated on the importance of vaccines, but recently, new cases of mumps have re-appeared in the United States. More people need to get vaccinated in order to prevent the spread of diseases and other illnesses and by doing so, the world becomes a safer place for our future generations. In order to get a better…

incapable of infecting and spreading between people. Vaccines, which are weakened forms of a disease that allow a person to develop a resistance to said diseases, have allowed humans to avoid many illnesses, from the irritating to the deadly. Measles, mumps, and rubella are a trio of diseases that can be prevented by a single vaccine, limiting the spread of these highly infectious and potentially deadly diseases, yet this vaccine…

being diagnosed with autism coincides with the rising use of the Measles Mumps and Rubella Vaccine (MMR), it is understandable how some would make this claim. Although the correlation between the two may be apparent to some, studies done cannot find enough evidence proving that the vaccination is at fault for autism (Madsen, M.D. 2002). In 1998 a study led by Andrew Wakefield suggested that there was evidence that the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella vaccine (MMR) had a direct correlation with…

In order to create a safe environment for young children in the early education and care services, educators and staff need to be vaccinated. Pertussis, measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), varicella and hepatitis A are four popular vaccine-preventable diseases and all educators and other staff are suggested to immunize against these diseases by The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (2012). Pertussis is also called whooping cough. It is a respiratory infection that can lead to long…

this is. No one quite knows what causes autism. Although many believe genetics could be the cause, there is no real proof for the cause of autism. There are also a group of people who believe that MMR vaccines, a vaccine meant to prevent Measles, Mumps,…

for polio, measles, mumps, and the seasonal flu. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that healthy children receive 49 doses of 14 vaccines by the time they're six years of age. At the age of two months a child can go in and get their first series of doses. Between 12 and 23 months children receive the following vaccines: “Chickenpox (Varicella) Diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR),…

the world by 1979 as declared by the World Health Organization (WHO). Today, with advance scientific and medical development, a great number of diseases such as smallpox, polio and tuberculosis are prevented. The MMR (mumps, measles and rubella) vaccine was used to combat mumps, measles and rubella which are highly infectious diseases to children. It is usually given to them around the age of one. A majority of the children would not present…

out of children’s immunizations do so because of persistent misinformation about a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism (Breeding). The misinformation that Witolf Migala is referring to, is the article published in 1998 in the British journal, The Lancet, in which Dr. Andrew Wakefield said this, “Rubella virus is associated with autism and the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine… has also been implicated.”(Willingham,…

Every year, thousands of children receive vaccinations from their pediatrician’s office. According to the Centers for Disease Control, vaccination rates for the most common vaccines; measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), diphtheria, tetanus toxoid, and acellular pertussis (DTaP) and Varicella fall between 93-96 percent in Kindergarten age children ("Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2012–13 School Year," 2013). Vaccinations have been credited with saving…

have been required to enter many public schools, and in recent events have become mandatory to enter California Universities starting in 2017. It should become a requirement, not an option, for all children to be vaccinated. Diseases such as the mumps and polio have been successfully removed from the United States because of vaccines. According to Shot@Life, a United Nations Foundation Partner Organization, vaccines save 2.5 million children from diseases every year, which averages out to about…