Mumps

In the Washington post article titled, ‘Get Kids Vaccinated or Else, Parents Told’ it talks about how there were more than 2,300 students who had not received the state required vaccinations to allow their students into the school system. In Prince George’s county, the students are required to receive vaccines for the chicken pox and hepatitis B to go to school, the county reached out to all the parents and tried to inform the parents of the severity of the situation. After the deadline of the…

Chickenpox is a contagious infection that is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. Everybody can be infected by the varicella-zoster virus but it effects younger children’s more. Chickenpox can last up to 15 days Symptoms: A itchy rash that causes blisters with fluid, and once the blister erupts it causes to develop a crust. Also fever, feeling tired, headache, and anorexia is common. Treatment: The body has to fight the virus on its own. For the symptoms special creams to prevent from itching,…

have made some treatments to certain diseases such as the cold which is a minor disease but back in the past it was a huge disease. We still have some diseases that we have found cures or treatments but are still deadly such as the Measles ,Malaria ,Mumps, Rubella , Sickle…

Examples of these diseases are: polio, measles, and mumps. Polio cannot be cured; it attacks the central nervous system and causes paralysis. When a polio outbreak grasped the United States in the 1950’s. Fear was among many, because polio was quickly spreading, and there was no cure or vaccine. Many Americans…

and have become more common. But even though they have done so much good to us, people still suspect that they harm us more than they benefit us. About the same time, autism started to get more recognition and was known as a disease. The measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine (or MMR vaccine) was licensed in 1971 and became a big hit and many people all around the world got the vaccine for themselves and their families. Then on February 28, 1998, Dr. Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues released an…

immunodeficiency” (Rudrefer and Krilov 2). In order to fully protect society from a serious epidemic occurring, the majority of those who can physically get vaccinated need to in order to protect those who cannot. The links between the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine and autism has never been scientifically proven and only continues to set fear into the minds of worrisome parents. If parents…

In addition to measles and mumps, the MMR vaccine contains another viral infection, rubella. Rubella can trace its roots back as far as 1814 when it was documented by physician George Maton. It was given its name by Henry Veale in 1866, and attracted little attention until 1942 when it was first noted to have caused serious birth defects (Cooper, 1985). Rubella, like the measles, is known for its distinctive rash and is also known as the German measles because of the similarities between the two…

myth still persist in our culture? Three major myths were proposed in this case. Many believed the combination measles-mumps-rubella vaccine caused autism. Others thought it was caused by the use of…

people have 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…

Task A Q1 (i.) The second dose of measles, mumps and rubella vaccine had the greatest delay as it should have been administered at 48 months of age, although it was administered 1-6 months late and in some cases more than 6 months late (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2014, p.155). (ii.) 57% of the second dose measles, mumps and rubella vaccines were administered 1-6 months late as well as 9% of doses were given more than 6 months after the schedule point (Australian Institute of…