Mumps

Measles and Mumps and Rubella! Oh, My! Throughout the history of time in all parts of the world people have always been getting sick. One man began to wage war against these deadly viruses in 1796 with a vaccination against smallpox. Edward Jenner noticed that during this outbreak of smallpox the milkmaids were not getting sick. He then began to develop his miracle drug. His new vaccination consisted of a sample known as cowpox, an illness common to cows and milkmaids. Jenner injected his first…

infected person can easily transmit the disease by direct contact or through the air after sneezing or coughing. Even after these astonishing facts, there is still a gap in the measles vaccination rate. Parents are given the option to have the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine given to their children or to get it exempt for religious or personal…

Fri Sci telegraph The Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine In making the MMR Vaccine, medical professionals tend to use the strategy of weakening the virus through a process called ‘cell culture adaptation’. Through this process, the live natural virus is taken from someone infected with either measles, mumps of rubella and then grown in a chick embryo cell (for measles and mumps) or human embryo fibroblast cells (for rubella). The attenuated (weakened) virus is now unable to successfully…

The MMR vaccine has just been developed by Doctor/Scientist Maurice R. Hilleman. The MMR vaccine is made out of several scientific elements and chemicals such as sodium phosphate and glutamate. However some of the Earth’s resources that was used to make the MMR vaccine is sorbitol and sucrose. Scientists need to consider if it will all work together and need to do many tests and experiments on the elements individually and together. They need to know all about the Earth’s element whether or…

immunization vaccine against Measles, Mumps and Rubella (German measles) was first developed by Maurice Hilleman at Merck. The vaccine is a live attenuated virus of the three diseases; Measles, Mumps & Rubella administered via injection. The first measles licensed vaccine was in the year 1963 and was improved after 5 years. Vacines for mumps became available in the year 1967 and that of rubella at 1969. The three vaccines were combined to form measles, mumps, rubella vaccine at the year of 1971.…

“Anti-vaccine movements are motivated variously by political, cultural, and/or personal factors.” (Powell e57). With the anti-vaccine movement in full swing we are seeing “dead” diseases making a comeback, a few of theses diseases are Pertussis, Measles and Mumps. “More cases of pertussis were reported in 2010 (27,550) and 2012 (48,277) than since the 1950s.”(Bass 23). Nearly half of children who were diagnosed with pertussis in a pediatrics study had not received the 4 recommended doses of the…

Mumps 1. Characteristics of the disease Mumps is an infection caused by the mumps virus, which belongs to the Paramyxoviridae family. Mumps is predominantly a childhood disease, most often affecting children between five and nine years old. However, the mumps virus can also infect adults, and subsequent complications are more likely to be serious when adults are infected. Mumps is highly contagious and can spread rapidly via direct human-to-human…

Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.).” In regards to this goal, one of the major vaccinations seeing a drastic decrease in use is the Measles, Mumps and Rubella Vaccine. This vaccine has become a point of controversy and many parents are opting out of giving their children this vaccine. The purpose of this paper is to discuss how Measles, Mumps and Rubella can effect…

Introduced in 1988, the polyvalent MMR vaccine immunises against measles, mumps and rubella. There has been a great deal of controversy with regards to the MMR vaccine, including links to febrile seizures, autism and inflammatory bowel disease. However, the vaccine has proven extremely effective in preventing contagious viral infections. The MMR vaccine is a live attenuated vaccine and two doses are required for complete protection of children, and in some circumstances, adults. Through…

children around the age of twenty-four months old, the autism rate has increased by means of three hundred percent over the period of 1988 to 1994.This is while the vaccination rate was roughly the same. In this same period, children given the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine are very steady with little increase despite the fact the autism rates are steadily growing with enormous increase in this time period. In Europe of 1992, vaccines containing thimerosal were discontinued because of the high…