Diphtheria

(cancer.gov). Whereas many studies have discovered the short-term effects of formaldehyde, little is known about the long-term effects .While unrelated to formaldehyde exposure, SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, has been linked to the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus) vaccine on multiple occasions. SIDS primarily occurs within the first year of life, a period in which infants receive three DPT vaccines (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). As SIDS continues to be one of the main causes of infant…

routine vaccinations. Some vaccines are required before traveling outside of the United States. You should be up to date with vaccines before any trip in or outside of the United States. These vaccines include measles mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, diphtheria tetanus and pertussis vaccine (chicken pox), varicella, polio vaccine and your yearly flu shot. It is recommended for most travelers with standard itineraries and accommodations to get a hepatitis A vaccine. If you will be exposed to…

million children who are too poor to afford proper treatment. A quarter of all humans live without electricity approximately 1.6 billion people. As of 2013 21.8 million children did not get the 3 recommended vaccines that defend against, tetanus, diphtheria, and…

Bordetella pertussis is a bacterium that causes disease of the respiratory tract in humans, commonly known as whooping cough. Usually catarrhal symptoms occur within 7-20 days of contact with the pertussis bacterium. The disease typically develops in three stages:
 Catarrhal - Non specific symptoms similar to that of a common cold. Includes a sore throat, rhinorrhea and cough. this usually lasts for two weeks. 
 Spasmodic - Recurring coughing episodes that may result in facial discolouration…

assumptions about ethnicity, race, and class. “The new discipline of bacteriology amassed persuasive evidence identifying particular microbes as responsible for such deadly diseases as cholera, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, and diphtheria (p. 234. Chapter introduction). This quote shows how bacteriology was giving a scientific reason for the worst diseases plaguing society. One would think that because “contagion could cross class and race lines” that pre-existing…

Vaccines stimulate the production of antibodies to provide your body against many diseases. “Vaccines … have been proven to be safe, and what happens if you don’t take vaccines is children get measles and die. So the anti-vaccine crowd has … kept measles around in a way … it’s a tragedy, because so much is done to make sure these things are safe” (Oshinsky). Vaccines are developed and manufactured by scientists in order to prevent the population from contracting a disease and/or potentially…

In the past, millions of people died from diseases one rarely hears about today. Advances in modern medicine have been tremendous in the past 50 years. Vaccinations especially have developed so that certain diseases such as rubella, smallpox, diphtheria, polio, and whooping cough are now prevented by vaccinations that we have today (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases). People against vaccines say that children’s immune systems can fight these diseases on their own. Side…

schooling are required to acquire booster shots. These booster shots help the previous vaccine stay in the system and essentially boost the immunization. Students that are eleven to twelve years of age are required to get a booster shot of Tetanus/Diphtheria/Pertussis, Tdap. This particular vaccine is said to be most effective if given every ten years after the first dose. They are also given their first dose of Meningococcal (MCV). This vaccine protects against bacteria forming fluid around the…

Assess his voyages and decide if he is rightly to blame for the spread of disease, or if modern historians are being overly cruel in their assessments. Chrtistopher Columbus was an italian explorer and navigator. Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain in the Santa Maria he was hoping to find a new route to India. Christopher Columbus first went to sea as a teenager. His first voyage almost cost him his life when he was attacked by French privateers off the…

The abstract discusses how the authors examined the effects “of vaccination for diphtheria; polio; pertussis and tetanus; or measles, mumps, and rubella on the incidence of physician-diagnosed asthma and eczema.” (McKeever, T. M., Lewis, S. A., Smith, C., & Hubbard, R., 2004) In their findings, they stated that the “association between…