Pertussis

Introduction Do infectious diseases pose a big global health threat? Infectious diseases have been around for centuries and each year we discover new outbreaks around the world. One of our primary goals in global health is to prevent the spread of disease by adopting new technologies and providing primary prevention health education to ensure people live a prolonged life. Communicable diseases such as foodborne diseases do not only spread within a country, but can also easily transcend borders…

Vaccines-calling the shots “You don’t have to cough, you just have to breathe to get the disease because it is airborne and dangerous”. In US approximately 90 percent of parents vaccinate their children and follow recommended schedule which is 28 immunizations to protect against 14 different diseases in their first two years of life. 10 percent of parents either skip or delay some shots and 1 percent don’t vaccinate at all. The reason behind, not vaccinating or delaying or skipping is that…

Are vaccines more harmful or helpful? Do the benefits outweigh the risks? Is autism related to vaccinations? These are a few of the questions many people ask before getting vaccinated or allowing their children to be vaccinated. In this paper we will use scientific based evidence to explore the benefits, risks, and myths associated with vaccinations. Prior to the early 1900’s thousands died yearly from diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, and polio. These numbers declined with the growing…

Tetanus is a rather serious bacterial infection that is caused when the bacterium Clostridium tetani enters the body, generally through an open wound of some kind. Widely considered to be a disease directly related to cleanliness, Clostridium tetani is commonly contracted when an open wound comes into contact with dirt, animal feces or manure. It is a disease that can be traced back throughout human history for several thousand years, often taking the form of some sort of religious “possession”…

Let’s be real, who needs vaccines? The World Health Organisation states that “Each year, vaccination averts an estimated 2-3 million deaths from diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and measles.” However Sarah from “Vaccines don’t save lifes” (yes that’s the correct spelling for the website) states that you shouldn’t vaccinate your child as pharmaceutical companies can’t be trusted. The question now is, should we mandate them? Or let the parents decide? For everyone who is unsure…

thousands of children receive vaccinations from their pediatrician’s office. According to the Centers for Disease Control, vaccination rates for the most common vaccines; measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR), diphtheria, tetanus toxoid, and acellular pertussis (DTaP) and Varicella fall between 93-96 percent in Kindergarten age children ("Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2012–13 School Year," 2013). Vaccinations have been credited with saving thousands, if not…

Vaccination The vaccine refusal has already become a social issue. In “Who’s Afraid of a Little Vaccine,” Jeffery Kluger cites evidence that California clocks in at just a 92.7% rate for MMR vaccine and a 92.5% rate for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis., and Colorado rolls in last at a woeful 85.7% and 82.9%. A large number of young parents who hold negative attitudes towards immunization refuse to vaccinate their children. According to Kluger, the higher the education background the parents…

Vaccination of Children A precious gift, a bundle of joy, and a parents’ greatest accomplishment, a child. Health is a choice. Once children are born parents are faced with the decision to vaccinate their child. Vaccination has positives and negatives which are constantly discussed throughout society and among new parents. Vaccination is a strong controversial topic within the medical field; some parents vaccinate to protect, save time and money, and prevent medical issues in future generations,…

citizens to improve the declining state of the nation. A huge media campaign helped with the promotion of these vaccines. As a result of all of the efforts put into Carter’s act, by 1980 96% of all children had been vaccinated against diphtheria, pertussis, polio,…

the length of time it stays in the body is very short and the amount is so small it was not found to be dangerous to humans (“Thimersoal in Vaccines”). By 1940 thimersoal was placed into vaccines such as: diphtheria toxoid, meningococcal serum, pertussis and others. The concern of parents grew immensely when an Iraqi study of infants exposed to an agent closely related to thimersoal showed children having developmental delays…