Diphtheria

Today almost all children are protected by vaccines. Immunization shots contain a weaker form of an illness. It is injected into your body for your immune system to learn to fight off. Parents are questioning whether vaccines should be mandatory or optional for their child. Parents should be required to give their children immunization shots before entering public school. Vaccines will protect students from spreading epidemics. Vaccines are also effective and safe to give students. Finally,…

Plain is ten years of age and getting ready for his Confirmation. Diminish Dooley, whom everybody calls "Quasimodo" in light of his slouched back, offers to let Frank, Billy Campbell, and Mikey Molloy pay a shilling to take a gander at his bare sisters. The day preceding their Confirmation, they go to Peter's home. Mikey Molloy climbs the drainpipe to see the young ladies, at the same time, as he strokes off, he begins to have a fit and tumbles off the pipe. Quasimodo's mom shows up, close…

After I gave birth to my beautiful daughter my doctor told me that I needed to find a pediatrician for her. I did of course and she had her first appointment about a week after we were discharged from the hospital. The appointment went good and they told me that I needed to go and schedule the four month old check up and that is when my daughter would receive her first set of shots. I didn’t think anything about it because I had received all my shots when I was growing up. Then I went home and…

Should Parents Vaccinate Their Child ? One of the biggest issues facing parents today is whether or not to vaccinate their children. Some parents do not want to vaccinate their children because they feel that the vaccinations can cause harm to the child. Others simply feel that their children belong to them and that government should have no say in what they do about vaccinating them. Still other people say that it is irresponsible not to vaccinate children from diseases which could be…

Will you vaccinate your child or let them die from a preventable disease? “Vaccines were used as early as 1000 AD”(procon.org). Since they have been around for a very long time they probably are very useful. “The first vaccine in the United States was in 1721 when Cotton Mather encouraged vaccination in response to an outbreak of smallpox”(procon.org). According to procon.org, the first smallpox vaccine was invented by Edward Jenner and was used for over two hundred years. This vaccine saved…

"Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child 's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections" (Ezekiel Emanuel). Immunizations, or vaccines, have been saving lives for quite some time. The first vaccine ever was performed in 1796 by Edward Jenner. In that time period, smallpox was a huge problem in mankind. When Jenner came up…

never seen a case of measles recently. As vaccines were developed and became used widely, these diseases rates have been attenuated and almost gone from our country. Furthermore, more than 15,000 Americans died from diphtheria in 1921, before there was a vaccine. Only one case of diphtheria has been reported to CDC since 2004. Also, an epidemic of rubella which is German measles in 1964-65 infected 12½ million Americans, killed 2,000…

children receive 49 doses of 14 vaccines by the time they're six years of age. At the age of two months a child can go in and get their first series of doses. Between 12 and 23 months children receive the following vaccines: “Chickenpox (Varicella) Diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR), Polio (IPV), Pneumococcal (PCV), Hepatitis A, and Hepatitis B” (P.13). Some of the vaccines may be given as part of a combination vaccine, so…

became resistant to the actual virus. Pasteur went on to use this theory to develop causes and vaccinations for diseases such as TB, smallpox, cholera and anthrax. Pasteur next discovered the rabies vaccine in 1885. Then, vaccines against tetanus, diphtheria, plague, tuberculosis…

originated in Disneyland, fingers were incorrectly pointed at Mickey instead of anti-vaxxers. Childhood vaccines should not be a parent's choice because unvaccinated children are more dangerous than vaccinations. Thanks to vaccines, diseases like diphtheria and mumps have been almost completely eradicated in many countries; nevertheless,…