Mumps

Whether you are a parent or not, we all have that unselfish concern for the welfare of children and our communities. If it were possible, we would protect our loved ones from even the smallest of illnesses. Fortunately, we can protect them from some diseases that have ended the lives of children and adults for hundreds of years by choosing to vaccinate. The federal government needs to enact a policy that requires all who reside or enter the United States to receive all recommended vaccinations…

Your child is lying in a hospital bed covered in red spots. You assumed it was just poison ivy or a few bug bites thinking it will cure up by itself, but it does not. He or she is suffering from fatigue, high fever, loss of appetite, sore throat, and swollen lymphs. The blood work returns (just to be safe) and the doctor tells you, that your child has the chickenpox. The doctor informs you that the body will eventually heal itself, but prescribes medication and give advice on how to deal with…

three, all vaccinations are necessary and should be administered by the recommended schedule. The choice made by parents to not vaccinate their children appeared to gain a lot of popularity when a study was published linking autism to the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine in 1998. This study was completely retracted in 2010 due to several incorrect elements, ethical violations, scientific misrepresentation, and deliberate fraud (Rao). Many parents still hold to this notion, however, that…

How development can affect one another and be interconnected. Children develop and learn in different ways and at different rates. All areas of learning and development are equally important and inter-connected. Children learn from everything they do; skills are developed in day-to-day activities and achievements. While children will need to be taught new skills, these should always be balanced by opportunities for them to independently apply. For example; if a child has a physical achievement…

In the 1860s, there was neither a doctor nor even nurse that had yet come up or establishes biology and was semi dumb of the causes and reasons of such diseases in the 1860s. In the Civil War doctors went too medical school for only about two or four years more of school. Now in the Civil War time period medical improvements were so little, they practically wasn’t there at all, and that goes the same for doctors. The medicine time in the 1860s was the new start of the equipment that we use today…

Get your daughter!" I hear my father begin up the stairs toward my room, I bury my head in my pillow. "Knock, Knock, sweetheart, can I come in?" "Fine" I mump led through my pillow. "Why don't you want to do to school?" "Dad, really? You were a teenager once you know how it is." "Yes I was and I do but I loved high school, you'll form friendships that'll last a lifetime." "Not true." "What do you mean…

Vaccines prepare the immune system to fight disease causing germs. Individuals can construct immunity in two ways; by getting sick from the virus or getting vaccinated. When bacteria or viruses enter the body, the immune system responds by making protein molecules called antibodies. These antibodies take on the task of fighting off the foreign invaders to protect against an infection. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “A healthy individual can produce millions of…

While different types of immunization have been used throughout history, the first vaccine was administered by a country doctor named Edward Jenner in 1796. Ever since that first vaccination, the world has been filled with both pro-vaccination and anti-vaccination movements. Vaccines have helped our society by drastically decreasing the presence of many life threatening diseases like polio, smallpox, and measles, to name a few. Fear and doubt have also surrounded vaccines since their birth.…

root causes of an Autism Spectrum Disorder have been very difficult, yet brought up a numerous controversial debate on this topic. Some of the studies have found that, the root causes of an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have closer link to Measles Mumps…

disease. (Dixon 2013) The Civil War is known as the deadliest war that the United States has ever engaged in with approximately 620,000 deaths. Dixon states that the most common diseases that killed soldiers were dysentery, typhoid fever, pneumonia, mumps, measles and tuberculosis. The Civil War was the deadliest war in the United States because both sides were Americans, but the staggering mortality rate can also be attributed to the medical practices of the time. When I have cut myself in…