Hepatitis B vaccine

The history of immunizations and vaccines in Europe and the Americas began with Edward Jenner, a British doctor who lived in Gloucestershire, England. Jenner performed the world’s first vaccination in 1796, created to protect the world against smallpox. By inoculating people with substances from a cowpox lesion, he was able to create immunity to smallpox all over the world. Vaccines and antitoxins against anthrax, diphtheria, plague, tuberculosis, and more were developed over the 1930s. Over…

Has your child been vaccinated and protected against harmful diseases? Childhood immunization plays an enormous role in the health of our children today. “Nearly everyone in the U.S. got measles before there was a vaccine, and hundreds died from it each year. Today, most doctors have never seen a case of measles” (“What Would Happen If We Stopped Vaccinations,” 2014). Thanks to many years of immunization, the incidence for diseases such as polio, measles, and tetanus has been rare. The…

rubella, varicella, influenza, polio, and hepatitis. An immeasurable amount of men, women, and children throughout history were defenseless against these diseases and had their lives ruined by arduous illnesses. With the invention of the vaccine, through injecting dead or weakened diseases, a person’s body is able to defend itself against otherwise vigorous diseases.…

Vaccines get a lot of attention these days. Increasing reports of brain injuries near the time of infant vaccinations have ignited fears over the ingredients of vaccines that have bordered on hysteria. Unfortunately, there seems to be no definitive proof that vaccines actually cause brain diseases such as autism. However, there is too much evidence to support such claims of injury to ignore the risks. So whom can parents believe, and how can they decide whether to vaccinate their children?…

cause side effects, including seizures, paralysis, and death. They contend that numerous studies prove that vaccines may trigger problems like autism, ADHD, and diabetes”. Opposition to vaccines is not new. Doubters to vaccines have existed for hundreds of years. As urban areas become more population dense the greater the epidemic crisis is possible, so the Public Health solution to preventing the spread of communicable disease is to mass vaccinate. “In response to immunization laws, in 1878,…

Current statistics have documented that an excess of “up to 40 percent of parents in the U.S. to delay or refuse some vaccines for their children” (Haelle). This staggering statement concludes that there is a cause for concern in regards to vaccinating children here, in the United States. The overwhelming percentage of parents who choose not to vaccinate, for whatever their reasons may be, versus those who do vaccinate, has created a recently debatable question. Should parents be required to…

The presentation by Kris Hansen, an employee at 3M, was very intriguing and informative on the use of microneedle to delivery vaccines intradermally. It is no secret that many people have a fear or dislike of needles. These microneedles would allow a larger population of individuals to receive lifesaving vaccinations in a non-stressful way. This reason among others, suggest the positive effects of microneedles in the use of vaccinations. Hansen stated that the name for these microneedles at 3M…

In Uganda, a being a doctor is both an interesting and challenging job. Everyday am faced with terminally ill patients yet for some of them you can barely do anything to change the situation; however, most of these patients have the largely preventable illness but they come to the hospital when the disease is adverse. Of course, there are various reason to explain this scenario in the Ugandan Context. Most people point out the lack access to essential health care and medicines as the cause of…

contaminated. Some of the infectious diseases can be prevented with vaccinations. Vaccines contain weakened or killed germs that cause the disease. These vaccines cause the body to produce antibodies that fight against the germs. The antibodies then stay in the body to help future protection from the disease. “Vaccines prevent 10.5 million cases of infectious diseases each year.1” Due to the 90%-99 effectiveness of a vaccine preventing a disease, there should be mandatory requirements to…

achieved optimal coverage in a number of sub counties, the overall and marked control of measles. After the program, was started more vaccines have been added to the infant immunization schedule, namely hepatitis B, Hemophilus influenza type B vaccine, yellow fever then pneumococcal vaccine and most recently Measles second dose and Rotavirus vaccines. These vaccines address key killer diseases with the objective of achieving 90% vaccination coverage at national level and in high risk sub…