Hepatitis B vaccine

In 1954 there were 38476 cases of reported polio in the United States in the same year a mass trial of the polio vaccine began with over 1.3 million children participating in the trial (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 2016). Six years later the vaccine was licensed for use and then five years after that the reported cases had dropped to only 72 (Post-Polio Health International, 2008). The first ever vaccination is often attributed to Edward Jenner in 1796 when he noticed that if…

childhood vaccines are dismissed and sometimes, even considered impossible. Upon doing my own research and learning about the ingredients, adverse reactions during clinical trials, the threat…

sanitation and personal hygiene. Another way to prevent it is through polio vaccines. There are two different types of vaccines the IPV and the OPV. Parents should make sure children are vaccine with inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV) at two months, four months, between 6 and 18 months and between 4 and 6 years of age. IPV is 90 percent effective after two shots and 99 more effective even after 3 shots. The Oral polio vaccine consists of a mixture of the three live attenuated poliovirus…

prevent diseases from occurring. Consequently, immunization should be the parents decision because vaccines bring side effects, harmful ingredients, and go against their freedom of religion. Vaccinations…

child or not it may be extremely difficult for one. They may have concerns about their child 's immune system or may not feel it 's necessary to get a vaccine for a disease you are likely not to get. Many parents are also nervous with the side effects the vaccination comes with. Parents have been seeming to ask themselves and doctors “are vaccines really safe or even worth it?”.Doctors will constantly remind…

in Africa, East and Central Asia, up to 80% are unable to clear the virus which leads to a chronic infection.3 Chronic infections lead to liver disease and cirrhosis, these cause symptoms such as liver failure and liver cancer. There is no vaccine for Hepatitis C and it usually spreads through blood-to-blood contact such intravenous drugs or blood transfusions. While the initial virus is curable, if it does lead to liver failure or cancer, the person will require a liver transplant because a…

Were you vaccinated as a child? If you have children, did you choose to vaccinate them? If yes, why? Although it sounds like a very easy question to answer but because of misinformation about vaccinations many people are no longer staying up to date on them or are choosing to opt out completely for themselves and their children. Understanding the way the immune system works to cause immunity to certain diseases is crucial in understanding how and why vaccinations work. Active, natural immunity…

their routine vaccinations. Some vaccines are required before traveling outside of the United States. You should be up to date with vaccines before any trip in or outside of the United States. These vaccines include measles mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, diphtheria tetanus and pertussis vaccine (chicken pox), varicella, polio vaccine and your yearly flu shot. It is recommended for most travelers with standard itineraries and accommodations to get a hepatitis A vaccine. If you will be exposed…

parent can choose vaccines for their children, a decision that ultimately may protect the child, hurt the child, or possibly put others in the community at risk. Upon thorough factual research, a parent has a more informed to choose which vaccines should be administered to their child knowing the true statistics of the likelihood of a child actually contracting a particular disease, and some of the harmful risks of certain vaccines, parents can better understand which vaccines present a danger…

the United States, over 10 million vaccines are administered per year to children under the age of 1 year old. Infants are already extremely vulnerable to disease and other acquired health issues. Injecting these infants with a liquid cooked up in a lab by a greedy, self-centered scientist who has no real idea of what his or her so called “vaccine” does to a human body, is an ignorant decision. Nearly 100% of these children are required to receive these vaccines by state law in order to attend a…