Meningitis

If children are vaccinated at the beginning school age, then the child 's life could be saved and future generations could be protected; vaccines can also save the family time and money later on in the child 's life and vaccines save those around the child from harmful viruses and diseases and should therefore be mandatory. Many people in the U.S. do not understand the meaning and positive effects of a child 's recommended vaccines. Vaccines are described by many as the best way parents can…

E. faecalis is a gram positive bacterium, which is among the most antibiotic resistant bacteria. Containing many natural antibiotic resistances, it has acquired immunities transferred in r-plasmids among unrestrained bacteria. Since over a quarter of its genome is exogenously attained, this leads to its resistance to the strongest antibiotics or sometimes all antibiotics. This is a large concern in hospital environments and with people with low immune systems since they are more susceptible to…

“Prior to the HIB vaccine, the disease was the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in children under five years of age in the Unites States.” 20,000 children developed severe cases of HIB and nearly 1,000 of those children died, but but since its circulation, the vaccine has tremendously reduced the number of cases reported (267)…

SAC I was a high school student struggling to accept the person I was as a result of the meningitis I went through as a child. However, because of the support I was given I was able to accept who I was, and I was finally able to overcome my own personal stigmas of self-image. I came to Mt. SAC because I wanted to become a medical researcher, but…

there has been a 99 percent decrease of measles; if vaccinations were to stop there would be around 2.7 million measles-related deaths each year (“Vaccination Programs” 2). Before the Hib vaccine, bacterial meningitis was common among US infants and children; since the vaccine bacterial meningitis has dropped 98 percent (2). The measles and Hib vaccine are not the only vaccines that have had these results. In particular, Polio, Rubella, Hepatitis B, and Diphtheria vaccines have all had similar…

seizures that can last from a few seconds to several minutes. It is thought to affect approximately 275000 people throughout Australia and 2/3 of people do not know the cause of this. There are many causes such as brain tumours or infections like meningitis that can cause an epileptic fit. In some people there is no specific cause. When people have epileptic fits they are able to live relatively normal lives. They are restricted to operating heavy machinery and driving cars if they have seizures…

Seizures transpire because of a malfunction in your brain that causes a person to convulse, collapse or have an ephemeral perturbance of mundane brain function that can cause you to have a vicissitude or loss in consciousness. Most seizures can cause a decrease in the blood flow to the brain. Symptoms can include loss of consciousness, unusual sensations, and uncontrollable muscle spasms. Seizures can also come from having a head injury, drug overdose, brain tumor, infection, low blood sugar…

of the most important scientific advances in history. Scientists and physicians have developed vaccines for highly communicable diseases such as measles, mumps, and the influenza virus. Diseases that were once fatal, such as polio, tetanus, and meningitis are now associated with much higher patient survival rates because of the life-saving immunizations. Due to the success of the vaccines, the federal and state governments decided to require medically fit people of all ages to obtain…

Headache is diagnosed by history and physical exam (Mayo Clinic, 2013). Patient most likely has migraine headache without aura because patient has unilateral pain, throbbing quality, moderate intensity pain and nausea. According to Dunphy et al. (2015) migraine without aura requires two of the following characteristics; they are unilateral location, pulsating quality, moderate to severe intensity and exacerbation by physical activity. In addition at least one of the following must be present:…

adults get vaccinated too. Students in college are more likely to get meningitis than anyone else. It is important that college students get vaccinated for this before moving into a dorm where you can transmit disease between one another. To make the proposal essay effective, it is important that showing not only children should get vaccinated but young adults as well. College students are at the prime age to develop meningitis and stating that many die from this disease each year will help…