Mumps

Discussion A needle, containing different strains of the virus itself, protects humans against life threatening viruses! But how is this possible? A vaccine contains a small portion of the weakened virus, therefore, when Doctors vaccinate their patients they are injecting a small quantity of the Yellow Fever virus. An individual who has gotten vaccinated may experience minor symptoms of Yellow Fever however; symptoms will not reach phase III. Vaccines simply imitate the virus which helps the…

HPV Vaccine: Two Sides to the Problem An Exploratory Essay For a lot of us, getting shots at the doctor’s office have been the norm. Today, many people consider vaccines a controversial issue. This is a result from parents refusing to vaccinate their children for reasons ranging from religion, risk, and fear. In direct opposition, large amounts of people strongly agree with vaccination and look down on those who refuse to do so. The HPV vaccine has become a popular topic because of the…

This belief started in 1998, after a British physician claimed he had found evidence that the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine was linked to autism. This possibility has been thoroughly explored and no study since then has found a link between vaccines and autism. The original study from 1998 has been withdrawn by the UK medical journal that originally…

Diseases take the lives of millions each year but, with medicine and the proper procedures, they can be prevented and cured. Vaccines can successfully help prevent and cure many common diseases such as the flu, measles, and many others. Additionally, vaccines work together with the immune system to build an immunity against other diseases. But, like everything else in life, vaccines have both benefits and risks. Body Paragraph 1: To start with, vaccines are shots that have a weakened or dead…

not 100% effective, therefore many parents argue why put children through the pain of vaccinating them when it there is possibility that it won’t even work. The biggest controversy about vaccines and their side effects, has been around MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine and that they it causes autism. The original claim that MMR caused autism was in 1998, when Andrew Jeremy Wakefield, a British surgeon,…

Just as cell phones today have the capability of sending text messages to one another, so do standard household phones. With this text messaging available, the hearing impaired can communicate just as any other. Technology has made it capable to transmit not just the spoken word, but also the written word through telephone lines. Now that television shows and movies are equipped with the technology to include closed captioning, the hearing-impaired can view them. Listening devices can now be…

A quarter of all deaths, annually, are the result of infectious diseases; immunizations and the programs dedicated to preventing these ailments claim to have saved three million lives, in the world, each year (Marfe, 2007). Economically, immunizations have an influence on medical costs associated with a healthy individual and their community. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2011) believes the continued human benefits and controlled medical costs are dependent upon preventative…

Small children, grown adults, even the elderly, all of these people can be negatively affected by people not getting the proper vaccinations. Imagine a family member or a friend getting sick because of something that could have been prevented by an action as simple as getting a vaccination. Many of the diseases that can be prevented by vaccines lead to death. The problem with not getting vaccinations is potentially spreading malicious diseases that could have been controlled through preventative…

Autism has been known to be a very difficult disease, not only for the child but for the parents as well. Autistic children see the world from a different perspective, it feels disorganized and disorienting for them. They have a lot of developmental problems in personal, social and intellectual functioning. Moreover, they lack proper communication skills, causing them to retreat into themselves. Behaviors like these can also be the reason for a lot of anger tantrums since children become…

For as long as diseases and viruses have been around, people have been looking for a cure for sickness. Society has yet to develop cures for everything, but there are plenty of preventative methods, which can help keep the body healthy. The most viable preclusion is vaccination, which is an injection that helps produce antibodies and better immunize the body. Vaccines have been around since 1798, when the smallpox vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner. Despite how helpful vaccines are, many…