Diphtheria

Introduction Do infectious diseases pose a big global health threat? Infectious diseases have been around for centuries and each year we discover new outbreaks around the world. One of our primary goals in global health is to prevent the spread of disease by adopting new technologies and providing primary prevention health education to ensure people live a prolonged life. Communicable diseases such as foodborne diseases do not only spread within a country, but can also easily transcend borders…

There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon for someone to die from smallpox, polio, bubonic plague, pertussis, measles, or diphtheria. Bubonic plague wiped out approximately one third of the population of Europe between the years 1347 and 1351, leaving whole towns abandoned and causing mass hysteria. In the year 1520, Spanish conquistadors brought Old World diseases to the Americas, and smallpox decimated the native population to the point of near-extinction. During the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds…

back to life in his writing. The memory of his childhood is very much the same as the play he wrote, The Glass Menagerie. Thomas Lanier Williams III born 1911 is Tennessee Williams real name. “As a small child Williams suffered from a case of diphtheria which nearly ended his life and left him weak and virtually confined to his house during a period of recuperation that lasted a year.”(wiki) He had a sister, Rose Isabel Williams, “who was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young woman” and…

So during the 1614 peaceful period of time, between the colonists and the Algonquian tribes. John Rolfe and Pocahontas, who was captured and converted to Christianity had wed. Rolfe had brought back seeds from his voyage from the West Indies and began the cash crop product of Tabacco back to the colony. In 1617, when Pocahontas died on her way back to England, and her father Powhatan died in 1618. Under Powhatan’s successor, Opechankeno, the Algonquians became more and more angry about the…

The Pain for Keep a Secret In the short story, “The Use of Force”, by William Carlos Williams, two parents want to know the exact cause of their daughter illness, they ask the doctor if he can examine their daughter, Mathilda. The girl fights against the doctor and makes the examination awfully difficult. Afterward, the doctor must have to recur to force. In Williams “The Use of Force”, is showing that the child is fighting for her life and how the situation that she is living affect her. The…

harmful, at the time, to the body because the length of time it stays in the body is very short and the amount is so small it was not found to be dangerous to humans (“Thimersoal in Vaccines”). By 1940 thimersoal was placed into vaccines such as: diphtheria toxoid, meningococcal serum, pertussis and others. The concern of parents grew immensely when an Iraqi study of infants exposed to an agent closely related to thimersoal showed children having developmental delays…

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isolated and her self-esteem was deeply affected. At some point, Elliot’s brother, Theodore, sent Elliot to an alcohol rehabilitation center for him to get his life back. This further worsens Eleanor’s loneliness. When her mother, Anna, died of diphtheria on December 7, 1892, Eleanor did not feel much pain because she felt they were never that connected while she was alive. Her mother,…

Are child immunizations a safe and efficient way to keep children healthy, or are they unnecessary and harmful? Vaccines started their widespread use across the U.S. in the mid-20th century, and since then, the number of infection cases have dropped dramatically. According to the website Our World in Data, when the measles vaccine was introduced nationwide across the U.S. the number of cases per 100,00 people dropped from an yearly high of about 420 to an average of about 25. This may be due in…

will be realized animal research has saved more lives than the prevention of every war in entire twentieth century would have. Such an astounding success shows the research done through animal testing has greatly benefited humanity as a whole. “Diphtheria and polio vaccines, antibiotics, modern anaesthetics, the treatments for childhood leukaemia...all owed a huge debt to animal research(Fisher 1)” These diseases were responsible for the agonizing deaths of millions before cures were produced.…