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Vaccines for children will be one of the most controversial topics in medicine today and will continue to attract more attention in the years to come. For every parent, there comes a difficult decision that parents have to make when having children, but how many people know the pros and cons of vaccinations. Vaccines have been protecting children for many years from diseases that when becoming an epidemic, killed many. Children should not subject to the susceptibility of having and…

HealthyPeople.gov states one of the 2020 global objectives is to, “Improve public health and strengthen U.S. national security through global disease detection, response, prevention, and control strategies” (GlobalHealth). This objective highlights an awareness exist in the necessity to monitor global health in relation to American welfare. Therefore understanding what the stakes are concerning the possibility of an epidemic and how said epidemic is handled on a national level is extremely…

Despite the advancements medicine has made since the time of Hippocrates, it is evident that there are themes that never take a permanent leave from medical theory and how illness is perceived and treated. The themes include, but are not limited to: the use of heroic remedies, the use of religion to explain the cause of disease, and marginalized people denied aid. There is no argument that science has improved the lives of nearly everyone in some way shape or form. Regardless of the clear…

discharges for patients with RHD in 2011/12 and more than 100 deaths in 2006. ARF has largely disappeared from the developed world except in New Zealand. Bowie (2006), concluded an association between over-crowding living conditions and rates of infectious disease including ARF. Goodyear, and Fabian (2012), stated that in 2001 New Zeeland had the highest rate of household overcrowding compared to Australia, England and Canada. The Ministry of Health (2014) 2013 census found that 10% of New…

In 2015, a widespread pandemic of the Zika virus (ZIKV) was reported in South and Central America and the Caribbean’s as well. The principal concern associated with this viral infection is the increased incidences of microcephaly in fetuses born to mothers infected with ZIKV. As a result, World Health Organization has declared it a pandemic that is affecting many lives. This paper will examine what the virus is in detail, by looking at its signs and symptoms, and second it will look at its…

Over the past century, the conditions of human disease have changed a lot from acute diseases to chronic diseases in most of developed countries, so we cannot look at it and treat it in the same ways as before anymore. Biomedical model, therefore, should be adjusted with or replaced by the wide-ranged social models that are more suitable and more effective for resolving modern health issues, because it is narrow and one-sided. Biomedical model is mainly focus on biomedical changes in human…

WHAT: What are the Measles? Measles is defined to be a viral infection that is caused by a virus. “Measles is caused by a single-stranded, enveloped RNA virus with one serotype” (cdc.gov). “It is classified as a member of the genus Morbillivirus in the Paramyxoviridae family” (cdc.gov). “Humans are the only natural hosts of measles virus” (cdc.gov). “The virus typically first comes in contact with host lung tissue, where it infects immune cells called macrophages and dendritic, cells which…

Recent emergence or re-emergence of infectious disease has an origin in environmental change according to public health scientists. Parasites, fungi, viruses, and bacteria can create an epidemic of infectious disease. Transmission happens if an infected person touches body fluids of someone else. An infected person is not aware of the illness but can easily affect another…

All along the history of the humanity, humans have had to deal with many diseases, some of them were very brutal that killed thousands of hundreds of people. People tried a lot of remedies to cure those diseases, but sometimes it wasn’t enough, they tried inoculation which referred to the subcutaneous instillation of the virus into no immune individuals. It was until the 18th century in 1796 when Edward Jenner invented the first vaccine to fight smallpox. From then to now many vaccines have been…

vaccines should be mandatory, because it is a parent’s choice to vaccinate their children. This doesn’t give children an option, and some parents don’t care enough to research and see how not vaccinating their children could really harm them (Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society). If it was mandatory for everyone to be vaccinated, we would most likely see another drastic decline in the number of people effected by these deadly diseases. After many years it is very likely these diseases would…