Anthrax

human use are now commonly employed throughout veterinary medicine” ("How Do Animals Benefit From Animal Research?" 14). “Without animal research, millions of dogs, cats, birds, and farm animals would be dead from more than 200 diseases, including anthrax, distemper, rabies, feline leukemia, and canine parvo …” ("Animal Research: How It Benefits Both Humans And…

During the Roman empire, medicine in Rome revolved around Galen, a physician who reconciled the opposing philosophical constructs of Plato (an idealist) and Aristotle (a realist) through dissections and the formation of a systematic description of human anatomy. Although the belief in an irrational nature, a Platonic doctrine which stated that intangible forces outside of the natural world could have an effect on earthly beings had been popular in Greece, Galen and his followers revealed unease…

Dude, Where’s My Country? is a good book for people that dislike bush, and like talking about and learning about different things that happened while he was in office and if he was going to become president again for another term. Moore Talks about 9/11 and Bin laden throughout this book and his opinion on how is was basically done on purpose by Bush. He states different facts that can sort of prove what Moore is saying about Bush. Like how the Bush administration resisted the special commission…

vaccines crawled toward progress until Louis Pasteur’s breakthrough with the introduction of the rabies vaccine in 1885. After this point in history, vaccines made rapid leaps of progress that led to the development of a wide range of vaccines including anthrax, polio, and tuberculosis (College of Physicians of Philadelphia, n.d.). Nowadays, vaccines have become commonplace, a fixture within modern society that is often taken for granted. In today’s society, the topic of mandatory vaccinations…

March 20, 2003, the day everything changed. The day American troops stepped foot onto a foreign desert land that the United States now recognizes as Iraq. People have their opinions if the United States made the correct decision in their involvement in the war. Although the United States did gain much Intel, helped locals and executed Saddam Hussein, there are many that wonder if it was in the best interest to invade Iraq considering the numerous consequences. There are both positive and…

There have been many disasters in human history that have changed the way we think as individuals and as society. Some include the creation of the atomic bomb and the decades of fear of the end of the world after that. Chernobyl and the way society in general thinks about nuclear power. All of these modern day life changing events are quite small compared to The Black Death of 1350-1450. During this time, people looked towards the heavens for questions they couldn’t answer. They asked and prayed…

Animal testing has been used for centuries for scientific studies. 400 years ago William Harvey used animal testing to discover how blood circulated through our bodies. More modern animal research started about 150 years ago with the rise of physiology as a science. There have been many great discoveries with animal testing, but there has also been great controversy. Many people believe that animals should have the same rights as humans do when it comes to this topic. The definition of sacrifice…

I had been pondering this question for a while “how will my parents react when I tell them that I have decided to join the LDS church? The worst part of it all is that I didn’t ask permission to start speaking with the missionaries in the first place.” I was literally weighed down by fear as I crossed the threshold of my parent’s front door that evening. “I made this decision and I am willing to deal with the consequences,” I thought to myself. Somehow the brightly colored walls of the living…

in the Middle East John becomes more and more disgruntled with direction the country has been going with the handling of the war on terror. He then devises a plan to get revenge on the country. Since he is guarding the biological weapons such as anthrax and smallpox he did not want to do an attack that kills Americans. He wanted to do something that would hurt the country badly and financially. John wants to conduct an agroterrorism attack to hurt the country’s economy in hopes that it would…

Animals have always been there and helped us humans with many various things such as food, protection, being a friend, and many other things. Animals are everywhere we look, just looking put the window you are bound to see a bird or a fly or some other little animal or creature running around. Some animals make people go crazy such as dogs or cats and other animals make people scream and run the other direction like rats or snakes. Since at least 500 BC humans have tested products and performed…