Diphtheria

They are hailed as medicine’s greatest triumph, conquering smallpox, diphtheria, polio and more. If you look at vaccines over the past 100 years, they have increased our lifespan by 30 years. But in recent years, some Americans have rejected vaccines, afraid they cause chronic disorders from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder to autism. But the personal choices of parents to not vaccinate their children is putting public health at risk. Mississippi, West Virginia, and California are the…

introduced to aid in this process (Skibinski, Dr. David). For example, under the trade name Pediarix®, you will get the combination of DTaP, HepB, IPV (Skibinski, Dr. David). This combination will assist in the prevention of 5 total illnesses including diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis b, and polio. This is a great benefit for everyone because of the modernized approach with few vaccines. In addition to Pediarix®, there are a few more with the same goals in mind such as Kinrix™,…

Eleanor was to become an orphan at the age of ten. Her mother Anna died on December 7, 1892 after contracting diphtheria. Elliot was a sever alcoholic who had to be institutionalized several times for treatment of the disease. Two years after the death of her mother, Elliot died after a failed attempted to commit suicide by jumping off a building that caused a fatal…

Molly, an 11 year old female weighing 102 pounds and height 4 feet 9 inches was admitted to Adams Children’s Hospital January 14, 2010. Molly came from Indiana to visit her grandfather Billy in Georgia for summer vacation. Her grandfather was a farmer who produced a variety of foods, he also raised livestock. Billy would most often prepare his sheep’s wool with the help of his granddaughter. Molly enjoyed helping him but, most of all she enjoyed playing with the animals on the farm, she also…

Human and animal waste, garbage, and animal carcasses were often in close proximity to available water supplies. As a result, cholera, spread by contaminated water, was responsible for the most deaths overall on the Oregon Trail, although diphtheria was the single biggest killer of children. Many emigrants, exhausted and suffering from poor nutrition, fell prey to typhoid, “mountain fever” (believed to be a tick fever that causes flu like symptoms), dysentery, mosquito-borne diseases such as…

rate of Ireland, Israel, and Italy’s. While the pro-vaccinators say that vaccinations lowered the rates of infectious diseases, other data displays that the mortality from nearly all infectious diseases was vastly declining way before vaccines. The diphtheria mortality had fallen 60 percent before the vaccination was made. Fatalities from the whooping cough and measles dropped 98 percent in the U.S before the vaccinations were introduced. In 1960 only 0.24 deaths were occurring per 100,000…

Every year, thousands of children receive vaccinations from their pediatrician’s office. According to the Centers for Disease Control, vaccination rates for the most common vaccines; measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), diphtheria, tetanus toxoid, and acellular pertussis (DTaP) and Varicella fall between 93-96 percent in Kindergarten age children ("Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2012–13 School Year," 2013). Vaccinations have been credited with saving…

The Necessity of Children Vaccination The vaccine refusal has already become a social issue. In “Who’s Afraid of a Little Vaccine,” Jeffery Kluger cites evidence that California clocks in at just a 92.7% rate for MMR vaccine and a 92.5% rate for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis., and Colorado rolls in last at a woeful 85.7% and 82.9%. A large number of young parents who hold negative attitudes towards immunization refuse to vaccinate their children. According to Kluger, the higher the…

Vaccine,2016). Louis Pasteur’s discovered the rabies vaccine in 1885. The discovery had a significant impact on diseases that helps in society today with preventing ongoing diseases in children. The rapid growth of vaccines helps prevents against diphtheria, tetanus, anthrax, tuberculosis the list can go on too many…

responsibility of citizens to improve the declining state of the nation. A huge media campaign helped with the promotion of these vaccines. As a result of all of the efforts put into Carter’s act, by 1980 96% of all children had been vaccinated against diphtheria, pertussis, polio,…