Diphtheria

The article, “I Want Your Fear” by Ryan Henderson goes in depth on the incorrect assumption that vaccines lead to autism. Henderson describes how the anti-vaccine movement started. The author claims that Andrew Wakefield caused the anti-vaccine movement, which began with a paper stating that the MMR vaccine caused autism and Crohn’s Disease. However, Wakefield’s claims hold no scientific weight and caused a mass hysteria. Wakefield does not have the credentials to make such claims as he is a…

Before the creation of vaccines, people lived in constant fear of illness. Great epidemics would sweep across the country, killing thousands. Parents were left childless and children were orphaned. In 1940 sixty-thousand cases of diphtheria were reported in the UK, resulting in 3,283 deaths. There were six cases in 2008, all of them imported. Assuming that the disease would have continued killing at the same rate, the vaccine has saved approximately 246,225 lives in the past seventy-five…

Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 in New York City. When Eleanor was 8 years old, her mother died of diphtheria; her father died from a fall two years later. In 1905, Eleanor Roosevelt married future President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). Together they had four sons and one daughter. When FDR was diagnosed with polio, Eleanor did a lot for him, because of this, she became more involved in politics and making an impact. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was noteworthy in history…

Dating back to the 1450’s slave trade has been a pivotal part of the economic and social changes in America. Europeans “discovery” of North America destroyed Native American lands. Not only had they completely disregard the values and territory of the Native Americans, but they did the same to the people of Africa. The Africans were captured, mistreated, given unequal rights, and treated as if they were animals. The Europeans and Portuguese are to blame for inequality amongst the African people.…

Not getting vaccines could lead to one of the biggest outbreaks the United States may ever see if we don’t start getting all children vaccinated. According to science daily “there has been re-emergence of measles, mumps, diphtheria, and other vaccine preventable diseases. Several factors have contributed to the resurgence of diseases including the anti vaccine movement, the decreasing effectiveness of certain vaccines, adaptation of disease causing pathogens, and travel to…

The Ethics of Mandatory Vaccination The year is 1902, and the state of Massachusetts has just suffered from a smallpox epidemic. Hoping to curb the spread of the disease, the state implements a mandatory vaccination policy, fining those who refuse to take the vaccine. Henning Jacobson refuses the vaccine, claiming that vaccines have hurt him in the past, and sues his state. Losing the case, he then appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States. However, the Supreme Court upheld the…

co-workers he knew at the time, Tennessee Williams set out to write what would become A Streetcar Named Desire. Born Thomas Lanier Williams III in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, Tennessee Williams was a sickly young man and was bedridden by his diphtheria, which gave him ample time to think and read. He was given a typewriter shortly after, and this allowed him to begin writing at an early age. His family life, much like the relationships portrayed in his plays, was quite troubled. His mother…

Ministry of Health established the Kenya Expanded Programme on Immunization (KEPI) in 1980 with the main aim of providing immunization against six killer diseases of childhood, namely tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and measles to all children in the country before their first birthday. Although the programme has not achieved optimal coverage in a number of sub counties, the overall and marked control of measles. After the program, was started more vaccines have been…

In the twentieth century, every year Diphtheria killed 21,053 people, measles killed 530,217 people, mumps killed 162,344 people, rubella killed 47,745 people, and Hib killed 20,000 people in the United States. By 2012 every disease listed was decreased by 99% because of vaccinations (“Should…

Nothing is more tragic than a youthful life that has been taken by the contamination of an executioner malady. It 's an agonizing thought to realize that individual never got the opportunity to live to see their maximum capacity. Maladies murder youngsters consistently. Numerous ailments are microscopic organisms, breathed in by the casualty, contaminating a few ranges of the body. The microbes lives and develops while its casualty kicks the bucket. Different maladies are brought about by…