Diphtheria

influenza are not the only viruses to come in contact with human beings. In fact, diphtheria a virus that I was not strongly aware of is a highly contagious bacterial disease causing inflammation of the mucous membranes. Before this vaccination was developed and studied the United States averaged more than 175,000 cases of diphtheria each year but since then with the increase of immunizations of these three basic viruses diphtheria cases have fallen by over 99.9% being extremely rare in the U.S…

THE ROLE OF ELONGATION FACTORS IN GENE TRANSLATION AND PROTEIN SYNTHESIS. Professor Kinzy’s lab seeks to investigate the structure and function of G- protein in relation to it’s regulation and the post transcriptional processes associated with gene expression. The lab uses Translation Elongation apparatus found in yeast to investigate these processes. The components of these elongation factors are important targets for antibacterial and antifungal drugs such that improper expressions and…

To prevent pertussis, doctors often provide antibiotics like erythromycin which is used to treat certain infections caused by bacteria and the tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (TDAP) vaccine for teenagers and adults and diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTAP) vaccines for younger children which includes five injections and is highly recommended when you are an infant. Vaccinations come with simple side effects such as the following: crankiness…

How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Our Youth During the rise of the polio epidemic, vaccines were godsends. Parents lined up for their children to be vaccinated against the paralysing disease. Yet recently, vaccines have been the center of controversy. Lately the idea of vaccinating one’s child can be very intimidating; mostly due to the fact that not all parents possess the knowledge of a pediatrician or vaccinologist( Salmon, Daniel). The anti-vaccine movement and parental arrogance puts…

Recently there has been great discussion on the subject of vaccinations. Families who do not want their children to be vaccinated are able to claim “religious” or “personal” reasons for not vaccinating. It has become widely spread that vaccinations have a link to autism and other disabilities.Some celebrities have been using their place in the public eye to reinforce the decisions against vaccination. A vaccine is the introduction of a weakened virus to the immune system in order to let the body…

Vaccination Complication “Childhood vaccines are one of the greatest 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). Vaccines are used to prevent specific diseases in a population and provide immunity in individuals. They have been proved effective many times over and have succeeded in keeping communities…

A couple become the proud parents of an adorable baby boy. After reading an article online suggesting that vaccines contain harmful chemicals and can lead to the development of autism, they decide to refuse their newborn’s immunisations. As the years pass, their child continues to grow at a natural, healthy rate, and the parents continue to ignore the immunisation schedule given to them by the paediatrician. One day, the child cuts his foot. Within days, the child is hospitalised with…

has reduced the child mortality rate to minimum. Smallpox is globally eradicated and polio and diphtheria is almost nonexistent in North America. Vaccination and immunization has saved lives of millions of children in the third world countries. Immunization is important for children because they are at a much higher of getting serious complication with diseases like measles, smallpox, polio, diphtheria etc. The four most important reasons why it is important to immunization are as follows:…

Let us not forget that disease such as diphtheria pertussis and tetanus are hardly ever seen medically anyway, so what is the case for vaccinating children against disease which is so rare in America to begin with? Any one person with a rational mind can see that multiplying list of vaccinations…

As colonists and slaves joined the Native Americans in the United States, they brought contagious and deadly diseases that endangered their lives. Neither the Native Americans, African slaves, nor the Europeans carried immunity to these diseases because they didn’t have previous exposure to them. This caused the population to decrease. Fortunately, these diseases would later have a cure, penicillin. But, unfortunately for the Native Americans, slaves, and Europeans, this cure came after…