Measles

The Journey West Have you ever had to move to a new state or country? Some might say that the experience was fun or scary. It was probably nothing compared to the hardships Americans faced in the early 1800s as they travelled to a new place to live. In particular, I am going to follow the story of Martha Williams Reed, an Oregon pioneer. In an interview, she describes the hardships her and her family faced as they moved across the plains. The first hardship that they faced was the lack of…

begun to ask, are our vaccines more deadly than the diseases they prevent? Deadly diseases like Polio, mumps, measles and whooping cough, are known as sicknesses of the past but the fears regarding the side effects of vaccines are making them our very imminent future (MDH, 2012). In 1998 a study conducted by Andrew Wakefield claimed vaccines used to treat common diseases like mumps and measles also, had devastating side effects such as developing autism…

occurred in China in the year 1000. Historians believe that that the “vaccination” was snorting pulverized smallpox scabs. Smallpox and other diseases such as whooping cough, typhoid fever, measles, yellow fever, and many more spread throughout Europe and the New World for hundreds of…

and to make sure that they are getting the attention the child needs. If the disease gets serious then you have to pay to keep them hospitalized, medical bill will increase and you have to pay for their medication. When it comes to something like measles where it can cause brain damage or an illness that causes you to lose hearing you will eventually have to pay for mental/physical therapy. Amanda Z. Naprawa, an attorney who got her masters of Public Health from the University of California says…

Pro-Vaccines Vaccines are part of the human history and without it some of us would not be around anymore. There have been many outbreaks of disease spread throughout the US and the only way to contain it was through vaccines. It is important to have the knowledge about vaccines since they are part of our schedule maintenance for our body. Because of the many diseases that are contained at this time, the lost of interest has dissipated on the importance of vaccines, but recently, new…

After I gave birth to my beautiful daughter my doctor told me that I needed to find a pediatrician for her. I did of course and she had her first appointment about a week after we were discharged from the hospital. The appointment went good and they told me that I needed to go and schedule the four month old check up and that is when my daughter would receive her first set of shots. I didn’t think anything about it because I had received all my shots when I was growing up. Then I went home and…

Change is important for safety and growth. Many people died from measles in the past prior to the invention of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine. Measles is highly contagious and can spread rapidly. Across the world, approximately 20 million people are diagnosed and 146,000 people die yearly from this disease. Without change, a vaccine would not have been developed resulting in millions instead of thousands of deaths yearly (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014). In…

With the recent measles outbreak, there has been another disease in the news. Autism is a disease that affects millions of people globally. This is a relatively recent disease that has developed over the past few decades. It has a wide range of severity and can affect people in a variety of ways. This is why it is so confusing to researchers, parents and children affected by autism. Autism spectrum disorder encompasses many disorders with a range of symptoms and severity. The autism spectrum is…

Kant’s categorical imperative, John Stuart Mill’s utilitarianism, and Kwame Appiah’s cosmopolitanism. After a short description of each theory, the question of whether or not it is morally right to vaccinate children against bad diseases such as measles and mumps is asked of each of them. Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative The distinction between two kinds of imperatives – those that provide instruction for attaining a specific goal and those that apply regardless of one's goal – is at…

There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon for someone to die from smallpox, polio, bubonic plague, pertussis, measles, or diphtheria. Bubonic plague wiped out approximately one third of the population of Europe between the years 1347 and 1351, leaving whole towns abandoned and causing mass hysteria. In the year 1520, Spanish conquistadors brought Old World diseases to the Americas, and smallpox decimated the native population to the point of near-extinction. During the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds…