Outbreak

Epidemics have advanced along the side of technology and modern medicine developments. Because of this, it is important to maintain and update public health policies in order to prevent diseases like the West African Ebola Epidemic. The Ebola crisis originated in West Africa and spread through the region destroying communities and killing thousands. The Ebola scare expanded far past the borders in Africa to affect individuals across the world. Though there were not many infections in areas…

they really work and are they effective? Recent outbreaks like the measles incident in Disneyland in California in 2014 to 2015 has brought the topic back into the public eye. According to an article by Rong-Gong Lin from the LA Times, legislation in Sacramento intended to induce more parents to get their children the measles vaccine and other shots :stalled amid an outcry from anti-immunization forces”. Though studies have shown that the outbreak was most likely caused by the low vaccination…

was the significant amount of time required to grow the vaccine virus in eggs. As a result, the vaccine manufactures were tied to this biological process and could not produce vaccines at the requested rate. Therefore during the next influenza outbreak, public health officials must be more realistic about vaccine production…

These aspects are important because we need to maintain optimal health for health care providers so that they are able to fulfill their duties and provide adequate patient care. It is also important to reinforce compliance with precautions to prevent outbreak. According to Efstathiou et al. (2011), noncompliance with standard precautions was related to “lack of knowledge, lack of time, forgetfulness, lack of means, negative influence of the equipment on nursing skills, uncomfortable equipment,…

more practice of medicine. I tried to avoid giving medication, but I strongly recommend vaccination." "In my practice, I have seen kids with tetanus, mumps, chicken pox, rotavirus, and invasive pneumococcus. We had a bad pertussis (whooping cough) outbreak in Okinawa a few years ago in the schools. As a medical student, I took care of a 23 year old woman who delivered her second baby and then had a radical hysterectomy, because cervical cancer was detected on the Pap smear at her new OB visit…

Crisis. Whether you are an organization who is new to the industry, or a well-established brand, no company is immune crisis situations. Events of this nature if not managed correctly, have the ability to bring even the most impervious seeming companies to their knees. Chipotle’s ineffective communications’ response during their 2015 E. coli crisis, has had detrimental repercussions to the brand’s public image. The focus of my paper will assess two months in this yearlong crisis, specifically…

have a ripple effect throughout the US resulting in a decreased immunization rate and “herd immunity”. In Dec 2014 such an outbreak occurred at Disney Land in southern California. A suspected out of country traveler with measles came to the amusement park and ultimately infected 147 people in the U.S. NBC News reports (2015). Fortunately no one died as a result of this outbreak but it has created national interest and political talking points for GOP candidates and well-intended groups’…

Now PHI is allowed to be shared during the course of an investigation during a communicable disease outbreak to notify someone who is at risk due to possible exposure (Maruca, 2014). Now, to me, this is where things get into a gray area, what is to keep the person that was notified of possible exposure from going to reporters and broadcasting data? Did…

Knighted Newton The chapter titled, Knighted Newton, is about famous mathematician and physicist, Sir Isaac Newton. Newton’s name is recognized by almost everyone today due to his math and scientific studies. In the world of mathematics he is known for creating the calculus. However, there are a few people who would disagree with that. Some people would argue that, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is the man who created calculus and because of that there was a dispute that happened between the two…

The documentary of The Lost Children of Rockdale County was about a syphilis outbreak back in 1996 that happened in an urban area of Atlanta Georgia. The outbreak affected over 200 teenagers. Parents did not know that their children were getting involved in premarital sex, group sex, drinking and taking drugs. Without this outbreak of syphilis, the community of Rockdale would have not known that their children were behaving deviant. While watching this documentary, I was shock at how young the…