Pros of Vaccination Essay

Mind and Body: Physical Manifestations of the Mind Our immune system is there to protect us from anything that will do harm to our body, such as antigens. However, for someone who have an autoimmune disorder, their immune system fails to identify what is doing harm and helping the body. Based on the U.S. National Library of Medicine, The exact cause of autoimmune disorders is unknown. One theory is that some microorganisms (such as bacteria or viruses) or drugs may trigger changes that…

20 cents worth of materials can help save a life. The same materials that can be used to make a paper version of a centrifuge are everyday items you can find around your house -- paper, string, and plastic. Who would've thought that you could use paper in such a life-saving way! A Stanford bioengineer named Manu Prakash decided to analyze the spin of a toy he played with during his childhood in India -- A whirligig. The toy is quite simple in design and dates back thousands of years. It works…

Eczema, also known as dermatitis, is a disease that causes skin inflammation. It is very common, with more than 15 million people suffering from eczema here in the United States. About 20% of infants and young children have eczema symptoms. Even though the exact cause of eczema is still unknown, there are possible factors on why people contract eczema. There are many options to treating eczema symptoms, but there is no cure. More research has to be done to find a cure for this itchy and painful…

Fusobacterium necrophorum or more commonly known as Lemierre’s, is a rare disease in which F. necrophorum bacteria infects the throat giving the person tonsillitis, which spreads to the internal jugular vein and forms septic thrombophlebitis (infected blood clot). Part of the blood clot breaks off and travels through the blood, then starts to infect different parts of the body. F. necrophorum comes from the Fusobacterium species and according to the Red Book they are a non-spore-forming,…

The Zika virus’ first well-documented report of human infection was in 1964 when Simpson described his own occupationally acquired Zika virus illness when he was 28 years old. The illness began with mild headaches and the next day rash covered his face, neck, trunk, and upper arms and this spread to his palms and soles. Malaise, transient fever and back pain developed. By the second day, evening, of illness he was afebrile, rashes were fading, and he felt better. On the third day he felt well…

IDEA Definition Intellectual disabilities are defined in IDEA as “significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning, existing concurrently with deficits in adaptive behavior and manifested during the developmental period, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance” (Heward, 2013, p. 124). Causation Intellectual disabilities can effect a child’s brain development at anytime. Problems could arise prenatal, perinatal, or even postnatal. Causes are categorized into biomedical,…

larger size pose greater spread chance and must be dealt with as soon as possible in all difficulty. As a result, my scores for the three difficulty is as follows: Easy – 90%, Medium – 75% and Hard – 86%. Individuals that should be given priority vaccination are the ones with the most connections between them and others, followed by individuals who present larger bubbles than the others around them. You want to eliminate as many potential connections and reduce susceptibility as possible to…

Quite a lot of times I have heard anecdotes of people avoiding STD tests because they're scared of knowing for sure that they have a sexually transmitted disease. They'd prefer to stay in the dark, but while there may have been a twisted logic to this some years ago when little could be done about sexually transmitted diseases, nowadays it makes no sense at all. Some STDs can be cured, and there are ways of managing the symptoms of others to ensure they're barely a hindrance any longer. In the…

Vaccination or immunization is one of the cornerstones of risk reduction and public health response in regards to contagious disease. Since the initial smallpox variolation by Dr. Edward Jenner in 1796, the science of vaccination against pathogens has expanded to include a multitude of endemic diseases including measles, influenza, polio, diphtheria, and smallpox as well as more specialized health concerns (often bioterrorism) such as anthrax and typhoid fever. Further, immunization science…

The advancements in new medicines and immunizations have saved millions of people from harmful diseases. However, these accomplishments, which appear second nature to us, weren’t always available and accessible. In fact, the shift in proactive preventative public health occurred due to uncontrollable outbreaks such as diphtheria. Though we create vaccines to subdue mass epidemics, the issue of how to take further preventative action still persists globally. After reading the article,…