Pertussis

pneumoniae and many viral or fungal agents also appear to play a role in causing erythema multiforme. In kids, sometimes, erythema multiforme is seen as a reaction to certain vaccinations such as the hepatitis B and tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccines. Treatment of Erythema…

I support a less is 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…

State Required Vaccination Currently to enroll I public school in all fifty states and the District of Columbia require children to be vaccinated for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles and rubella. Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia require chickenpox vaccination, and forty-five states and the District of Colombia require hepatitis B vaccination for children to enroll in kindergarten. These laws act in the public’s favor, they protect children from potentially deadly…

disease that is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. Symptoms consist of flu-like symptoms and an itchy rash (Kids Health, 1995). Now, the disease is less common because of vaccinations that most kids receive at a young age. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a deadly disease that causes the victim to begin severely coughing and wheezing (Mayo Clinic, 1998). Today, we have vaccinations to treat whooping cough, but some infants can still die from…

Each group was given a set amount of cumulative exposure and was documented. The children were also given different amounts of vaccines per day. For example, the last group, birth to age 2, was given a whole-cell pertussis containing vaccine, a typhoid vaccine and other vaccines in a single day resultant in the single-day exposure to antigens. There was not a significant increase to the risk of ASD with the exposure to more antigens. There was also little change…

Introduction Currently, there are around 240 million chronic carriers of HBsAg around the world, which are at the highest risk of developing chronic liver diseases such as primary liver cirrhosis and hepatocelular carcinoma (Aparna Schweitzer, 2015). Most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are classified as low endemic areas, but there are some high endemicity spots as well (Díez-Padrisa & Castellanos., 2013). One of the most extensively studied high endemic areas in LAC is the…

parents who do not believe in vaccines. Currently in Pennsylvania, bills are being addressed to allow pharmacists to administer vaccines, to children under seven years of age, for health care providers to give expectant mothers information about pertussis vaccine, and to allow the health department to offer flu vaccine for children in schools (Richardson,…

Should Babies Get Vaccinated? Every day a child does or can get sick it is just a simple part of life. Though years ago when children got sick is was almost deadly and sometimes it ended in death. However with the help of science those deadly diseases have almost come to a stop throw the help of vaccines. Vaccines have some side effects though which give them a bad image in the mind of some parents. So with infants and children not getting the diseases that vaccines take care of less and less…

gov). Whereas many studies have discovered the short-term effects of formaldehyde, little is known about the long-term effects .While unrelated to formaldehyde exposure, SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, has been linked to the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus) vaccine on multiple occasions. SIDS primarily occurs within the first year of life, a period in which infants receive three DPT vaccines (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). As SIDS continues to be one of the main causes of infant deaths in the…

Vaccines Today defines herd immunity takes place when a significant amount of a population is immunized, thereby making the spread of disease difficult or impossible. This is especially pertinent for highly contagious diseases such as measles and pertussis. Herd immunity is most beneficial for those who are unable to receive vaccines such as infants and immunocompromised. This portion of the population relies on herd immunity in order to stay healthy and uninfected by completely preventable…