Diphtheria

Has your child been vaccinated and protected against harmful diseases? Childhood immunization plays an enormous role in the health of our children today. “Nearly everyone in the U.S. got measles before there was a vaccine, and hundreds died from it each year. Today, most doctors have never seen a case of measles” (“What Would Happen If We Stopped Vaccinations,” 2014). Thanks to many years of immunization, the incidence for diseases such as polio, measles, and tetanus has been rare. The…

to the Constitution of Canada. There are three provinces: Ontario, New brunswick, and Manitoba that has rules and laws within the provinces that in order to attend school they need proof of vacations. Ontario and New Brunswick all need proof of diphtheria, lockjaw, polio, measles, mumps, and rubella inoculation. And in Manitoba all that is needed the measles vaccine. With all these three provinces they do allow exceptions on therapeutic or religious grounds and reasons. By having these vaccines…

Immunisation is defined as the method of strengthening a person’s immunity or resistance to an infectious disease through administration of certain vaccination (World Health Organization, 2016). Vaccination helps to stimulate the body’s own immune system protecting the person against subsequent infections or diseases (World Health Organization, 2016). Immunisation provides the safest and most effective way of protecting people and community from various life-threatening diseases. Thus,…

2.4 Medical Science It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. – Hippocrates (460-377 BC), the ancient Greek physician – considered as one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine and, often referred to as the ‘Father of Medicine’ Visualize a chip that is implemented in the brain, which processes images from an artificial retina grafted in the eye and restores the vision of a blind person. Visualize a…

beliefs (Kirk fig. 1). Mandating vaccinations violates this First Amendment right to freedom of religion. Doctors continue to distribute vaccines for diseases virtually erased from society. Vaccine targeted diseases such as polio, tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, scarlet fever,…

of 16 vaccines. Vaccines are very costly though, the money adds up. Today, a person will pay $2,200 to purchase all government recommended and mandated vaccines for a child (Mercola). In the United States, all 50 states require vaccinations for Diphtheria, Tetanus,…

The Victorian era was the time when Queen Victoria ruled England. She ruled England for 68 years until her death in 1901. She started her rule when she was only 18. Queen Victoria has the second longest reign in England ever. During the Victorian era several popular artists would become known. Some of those who are relevant today include Charles Dickens, Bronte sisters, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Thomas Hardy. Plenty of good inventions came out of the Victorian era including medicine,…

In today’s society when a person goes to the doctor with a specific problem, he or she expects that the doctor will give him or her a prescription. The patient takes the prescription to the local pharmacy and gets it filled, and in a couple of days of taking the prescribed medicine the patient will feel better and continue daily routine activities. The complaint could be more serious and strict than others but most individuals are confident that the doctor will be able to cure them and most of…

Imperialism is the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies. ("Dictionary.com", 2017) Societies and cultures have changed greatly due to the influence of imperialism. Economics, society, and trade were just some of the things that were affected at the time of imperialism. The economy of the Aztecs was greatly affected after the Spanish arrived. The Spanish conquest was a rampage across South…

imagery and tone to create the perception of Chicago the entire world shared. Chicago was a city that lacked sanitation and was overcome by filth, a city in no way fit to host an exposition. Using parallel structure, Larson states that “there was diphtheria, typhus, cholera, [and] influenza”, reiterating the fact that Chicago was a dark city full of unhealthy, harmful conditions (pg.12). His apathetic tone portrays the setting of Chicago to be normal to those living in the city; it was normal on…