Diphtheria

Many medical professionals revere the vaccine as one of the best medical advances to have ever been created. The invention of the vaccine has eradicated polio from the western hemisphere and has rendered smallpox completely extinct. Every year it is estimated that children adhering to the vaccination schedule prevent 42,000 deaths and twenty million infections (Timmer). Still, though, the rates of intentionally unvaccinated children are on the rise. Parents are fueled by fears that vaccines are…

Cure or Poison: Vaccinations When you think of vaccines, what comes to your mind? Do you think of a 16th-century medical advancement that has the ability to eradicate some of the most dangerous diseases in the world, or do you see a toxin that has the ability to change the chemistry of the brain? Ever since the invention of the first smallpox vaccine more than two centuries ago, by an English Physician Edward Jenner, there has been a lot of controversy over the principles, ethics, potency and…

Until not too long ago, blacks and whites were on opposite sides of the fence. Integrating to an all white school in 1959 came with constant bullying and social pressure to not associate oneself with kids that were not the same colour as you. Linda, one of the main characters, developed a friendship with a Negro girl, breaking an unwritten law to prove segregationists wrong. By getting to know a new comrade, and even stepping up for a race other than hers, it freed her long-held opinion about…

Vaccines works by stimulating a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease or future illnesses. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Individuals should be immunized in order to protect the public health. Individuals who cannot be vaccinated for individual health issues rely on herd community to be vaccinated to prevent spread of potential diseases or illness that even the public may not be aware of. Herd community is a form…

This was epidemics of smallpox, typhus, influenza, diphtheria and measles that swept the American subsequent to European contact and they were killed million and million people up to 95% of the indigenous population of the Amerindians. This disaster came as a bringing from European a large domesticated animals…

Anti-Vaccination on the Rise Vaccinations have proven to be one of the most beneficial preventative measures that has been taken worldwide to fight against crippling childhood diseases. Diseases such as small pox, diphtheria, polio and rubella have become eradicated or dramatically decreased by more than ninety five percent. Vaccines save an estimated six to nine million lives each year, three million of those lives being children (Oshima Lee, 2013). Despite the success of vaccinations, the…

Animal testing has helped the world overcome many obstacles in regards to medical breakthroughs involving the cures for: “polio, smallpox, and diphtheria” (Paul). Some of the breakthroughs were made with the help of mice. In 1984, scientists were able to form monoclonal antibodies, which led to other technologies to fight cancers. “Mice and other rodents contributed to the 1984 recipients’ development…

Pat Van Dyke, a school teacher was watching her eight year old daughter undergo hip surgery. Mary was born with twenty two different handicaps, some being; a heart defect, spina bifida, and a tethered spinal cord. He watched from the hospital as about fifty animal rights demonstrators protesting baboon-to-baby heart transplant. An insulin-controlled diabetic saw this, and described it as very upsetting, and wanted to make her case public, she said “If it wasn’t for researchers injecting a dog…

Let’s be real, who needs vaccines? The World Health Organisation states that “Each year, vaccination averts an estimated 2-3 million deaths from diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and measles.” However Sarah from “Vaccines don’t save lifes” (yes that’s the correct spelling for the website) states that you shouldn’t vaccinate your child as pharmaceutical companies can’t be trusted. The question now is, should we mandate them? Or let the parents decide? For everyone who is unsure…

European medical practitioners have also been used the medicinal parts of ardusi plants. The isolated liquid extract and tincture have been used in England as an Expectorant, febrifuge and Antispasmodic. Simultaneously it has been also applicable in Diphtheria and intermittent typhus fever (Wren and Holmes 1923). In Germany, the physicians preferred to use the leaves for its expectorant and spasmolytic properties (Madaus, 1938). In Sweden, J. adhatoda is grouped under natural remedy and some…