Diphtheria

prisoners of war in Russia, and thousands left wounded, crippled, disfigured. It is estimated that up to 500,0007 civilians died as victims of the air raids. With a further 4,000 dying daily, in Berlin alone, in August 1945, because of the cholera and diphtheria epidemics. With this the population shrank and the demographics were significantly altered, 4.3 million lived in Berlin before the war, but only 2.8 million afterwards. One quarter of the population were over 60, One in 10 was under 30,…

Edward Jenner, who used materials of the cowpox to create immunity from the smallpox (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 2015). This continued with Louis Pasteur’s rabies vaccine in 1885, and continued with more vaccines to immunize against diphtheria, tetanus, anthrax, cholera, plague, typhoid, tuberculosis, and more in the 1930’s (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia 2015). Vaccines develop immunity by imitating and infection; it does not cause illness, but symptoms can occur due…

Medical Experimentation in Nazi Camps A long-standing hatred of the Jews came to a turning point when Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. Hitler had a “final solution” for the Jews which entailed extermination. Dachau opened March 1933 and the first people interred were political opponents of the Nazis. These prisoners were Communists, Social Democrats, and others who had been tried in a court. Later Dachau was a model for other concentration camps and served to school the…

There are over a hundred different answers and opinions on the topic of vaccines. Vaccination is the process of making someone immune to an infection or disease. Today, some agree to the topic of vaccinating your child, while others oppose the thought of it. This paper will be talking about the pros of vaccinating, including how they have saved children’s lives, the adverse reactions to vaccines are extremely rare, and vaccines protect the “herd.” This paper will also talk about the cons of…

As Bayry et al explains in their journal article antibodies from healthy immune groups will somehow bind to heme and acquire the ability to recognize multiple antigens. It was originally thought that all antibodies bonded to their individual antigens in a lock and key sort of function. However, several similar studies, such as the experiment performed by Bayry et al, have led to a much different consensus. It has now been determined that many antibody molecules are capable of changing its…

barely enough to make ends meet, so when Dwight Eisenhower was nearly a year and a half old, his family moved to Abilene, Kansas. His father took work as a mechanic at a local creamery. Although tragedy struck when one of his sibling passed away from diphtheria, They were able to make Kansas their home. Eisenhower liked living in the small farm town and often enjoyed hobbies such as fishing and hunting. His childhood was filled with many memories of playing football, outdoor adventures, and…

Throughout time, stories of the brave explorer Christopher Columbus have been told, altered, and retold, but through the spreading of these myths, the truth about his violent and brutal explorations of America is lost. Christopher Columbus was born the son of a Merchant in Genoa Italy in 1451. For all his life he grew up with a love for the sea. During the 15th century, it was almost impossible to get to Asia from Europe, but Columbus had a plan to sail around the continent of Africa to reach…

And during the trainings Picasso showed that he had thoroughly grasped naturalistic conventions at a very young age. In 1895, Picasso's 7 year old sister Conchita died of diphtheria. And Picasso was traumatized by her death. After some incomplete sessions of art school in Barcelona and Madrid. Picasso spent his adolescence associating with the group of Catalan Modernists who gathered at Els Quatre Gats in Barcelona…

(Updates) refers to a study in Lancet (UK medical journal) which states “Investigators gave 40 full-term infants 6 months old and younger two or three vaccines (diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis, hepatitis B, and, in some children, Hainfluenzae type b) containing thimerosal and then measured total mercury in samples of blood, urine, and stool three to 28 days after vaccination. Blood concentrations of mercury…

Vaccines are one of the greatest scientific achievements in public health. The first successful vaccine was introduced in 1796 for the treatment of smallpox. This vaccine was extremely effective that the illness has been eradicated. Vaccines prevent millions of deaths annually and have a well established record of keeping people free from certain diseases. Measles, mumps, tetanus and other life threatening illnesses have been reduced by more than 95% (Meadows 1). Despite all the success and…