The invention and renovation of vaccines was ultimately beneficial to humanity by preventing a multitude of diseases.
Before Vaccines lifespans were considerably shorter as many people contracted a multitude of diseases and died in their thirties and forties. Before vaccines, there was disease, a nasty beast known to all. Not slightly inconvenient diseases like the common cold, but plagues that ravaged the land and ripped millions of lives away from their homelands. Many children passed into an early death, facing many grave diseases that targeted their inferior immune systems. An excellent representation of this age of disease is the majesty, Queen Anne, whom had 17 kids. All of which died in their youth due to sickness,(Collier 10). These …show more content…
Much like an army marching in for a hostile takeover, most historians attribute the fall of the mighty Roman Empire to the vicious spread of Smallpox throughout Europe. In Italy alone, ⅓ of the population died, with the entirety of Europe losing 4-7 million people. This event of death significantly weakened the Romans, allowing for hostile invaders to provide the fatal blow. However Rome was not the only empire Smallpox fell, as Spaniards who traveled to the New World unknowingly brought with them a vicious killer. The Aztecs, whose immune systems never dealt with such a disease as Smallpox, was easily felled when the virus infected millions of Native Americans. The Spaniards swept through Southern America, enslaving just about an entire population of broken people. Moving on the cultural centers of the old world, Athens was an epicenter of art, literature, and philosophy. Yet plague halted this enormous growth, killing 1 out of every 3 Athenians. Robbing Athens of its glory and its potential. One of the biggest causes of the flourish of technology and culture in the present is due to the weakening of diseases through vaccination. By hindering the expansion of devastating illnesses Humanity is allowed to prosper. As a little fun depressing fact, Influenza killed four times the amount of people that died in WW1, Smallpox was still common in the 1960’s, affecting 10-15 million and leaving 2 million dead, …show more content…
The immune system is perhaps one of the most adaptable and useful processes that the human body utilizes to rid itself from anything from bacteria and parasites. Vaccines are just a method to stimulating a response from the body’s own immune system. A method called priming, think of it as fine-tuning, is utilized to strengthen your immune system. Thus allowing it to successfully fight of any diseases vaccinated against more effectively. By introducing an antigen,( any substance that make the immune system activate,) into an individual, the immune system floods the body with antibodies. These antibodies target the harmless germ or virus introduced by the vaccine and kill it. This strengthening activity boosts the response to deadly diseases through quicker recognition and extermination. Not to mention the fact that there are a plethora of vaccine types, the most well-known being the aforementioned attenuated vaccine. Inactive vaccines make use of dead bacteria as opposed to bacteria in a weakened state. This method is only used for highly contagious and particularly malignant diseases in order to maintain a safe environment. While dead bacteria creates a less beneficial vaccine, this shortcoming is addressed through multiple vaccines, called a series, over the course of a long period of time. And finally there are subunit vaccines, which
Before Vaccines lifespans were considerably shorter as many people contracted a multitude of diseases and died in their thirties and forties. Before vaccines, there was disease, a nasty beast known to all. Not slightly inconvenient diseases like the common cold, but plagues that ravaged the land and ripped millions of lives away from their homelands. Many children passed into an early death, facing many grave diseases that targeted their inferior immune systems. An excellent representation of this age of disease is the majesty, Queen Anne, whom had 17 kids. All of which died in their youth due to sickness,(Collier 10). These …show more content…
Much like an army marching in for a hostile takeover, most historians attribute the fall of the mighty Roman Empire to the vicious spread of Smallpox throughout Europe. In Italy alone, ⅓ of the population died, with the entirety of Europe losing 4-7 million people. This event of death significantly weakened the Romans, allowing for hostile invaders to provide the fatal blow. However Rome was not the only empire Smallpox fell, as Spaniards who traveled to the New World unknowingly brought with them a vicious killer. The Aztecs, whose immune systems never dealt with such a disease as Smallpox, was easily felled when the virus infected millions of Native Americans. The Spaniards swept through Southern America, enslaving just about an entire population of broken people. Moving on the cultural centers of the old world, Athens was an epicenter of art, literature, and philosophy. Yet plague halted this enormous growth, killing 1 out of every 3 Athenians. Robbing Athens of its glory and its potential. One of the biggest causes of the flourish of technology and culture in the present is due to the weakening of diseases through vaccination. By hindering the expansion of devastating illnesses Humanity is allowed to prosper. As a little fun depressing fact, Influenza killed four times the amount of people that died in WW1, Smallpox was still common in the 1960’s, affecting 10-15 million and leaving 2 million dead, …show more content…
The immune system is perhaps one of the most adaptable and useful processes that the human body utilizes to rid itself from anything from bacteria and parasites. Vaccines are just a method to stimulating a response from the body’s own immune system. A method called priming, think of it as fine-tuning, is utilized to strengthen your immune system. Thus allowing it to successfully fight of any diseases vaccinated against more effectively. By introducing an antigen,( any substance that make the immune system activate,) into an individual, the immune system floods the body with antibodies. These antibodies target the harmless germ or virus introduced by the vaccine and kill it. This strengthening activity boosts the response to deadly diseases through quicker recognition and extermination. Not to mention the fact that there are a plethora of vaccine types, the most well-known being the aforementioned attenuated vaccine. Inactive vaccines make use of dead bacteria as opposed to bacteria in a weakened state. This method is only used for highly contagious and particularly malignant diseases in order to maintain a safe environment. While dead bacteria creates a less beneficial vaccine, this shortcoming is addressed through multiple vaccines, called a series, over the course of a long period of time. And finally there are subunit vaccines, which