Mumps

In 1998, Dr. Andrew Wakefield released a study claiming that vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella caused autism. Many believed the scientist claim and stop their children from receiving the vaccines, causing the rate of measles and mumps to rise. Many have questioned Dr. Wakefield’s results and conducted their own experiments causing a controversy. On the internet today, there are many articles claiming vaccine cause autism, and vaccines don’t cause autism. The CDC has released an article…

You can become deaf from damage or disruption to any part of the hearing system. Some things that can be a disruption or damage to the hearing system would be wax blocking the ear canals. Hearing loss can have all different stages of how bad it is. People who have a hard time following speech would be considered mild hearing loss. Moderate deafness would be difficulty following speech without a hearing aid. People who rely on lip reading when even having a hearing aid it would be considered…

claims about a link between vaccines and autism. Due to the skepticism about childhood immunizations and the recent rise in vaccine side effect fears and misinformation, some communities are becoming vulnerable for preventable illnesses like measles, mumps and chickenpox. Although exemptions vary from state to state, all school immunization laws…

disease. On www.vaccineinformation.org and in the artlicle “Importance of Vaccines”, the Immunization Action Colaition states “Vaccine preventable diseases such as measles, mumps and whooping cough are still a threat” (Importance of Vaccines). In the chart below from the article “Why Vaccinate?”, the amount of measles and mumps cases have decreased by a combined 195.6% since the 20th…

Fear Immunity Modern day medicine has afforded us many benefits. One of these is the ability to live life without the fear of many communicable diseases putting susceptible populations at risk. These are diseases that in the not so distant past had wide spread morbidity but today are nearly unknown due to vaccinations. When we start wondering what the purpose of vaccines are, it’s paramount to recall what they’re protecting us against and buying into the fearmongering surrounding them. In the…

Since Canada started vaccinating against measles, there was a more than tenfold decrease of measles incidence (De Serres et al., 2013). However, there were several outbreaks reported in Canada from 2008-2011, ranging from 56 to 30,000 cases. Currently, the major cause of measles outbreaks is failure to vaccinate or incomplete vaccination (Dallaire, De Serres, Tremblay, Markowski & Tipples, 2009; De Serres et al., 2013; De Serres, 2012; Duclos, Redd, Varughese, & Hersh, 1999). Other causes of…

I was assigned to be a lawyer agreeing that vaccine should be mandatory. The research that was assigned for my part of the presentation was case studies and laws. Throughout my research I discovered that the state of California now requires children to be vaccinated prior to entering school. If a parent does not want the child to be vaccinated they will have to attend private independent study school from home. However, if a parent wants any child as a pupil of any public or private elementary…

vaccinate her child because the benefits of the MMR vaccination outweigh any potential risks. ‘These childhood diseases are serious, with potentially grave neurological complications including encephalitis’”. (Web MD, 2015). Measles can lead to seizures, Mumps can lead to hearing loss, and meningitis, and Rubella can cause birth defects and cause pregnant women to lose their baby. Getting the MMR shot is a benefit for the child, not you. Your child will be at risk for these serious, sometimes…

This paper explores the different diseases in which hearing loss is a side effect. The different causes of deafness are broad and are usually categorized between two types of deafness. There are two main types of deafness which are conductive deafness and nerve deafness. There is deafness in which you are born in (can be born in through disease), congenital deafness; and deafness which occurs later in life, adventitious deafness, usually caused by loud noises. The paper explores the Sensorial…

Advances in preventative medicine have led to some of the greatest decreases in child mortality rates in existence. The development of immunisations has led to an increase in average life expectancy across the modern world since its inception, crushing once devastating diseases. Unfortunately however, the development of movements against vaccinations have also led to the inception of certain subcultures which are against vaccinations. Although the safety of vaccines receive far more advertising…