Pertussis

Growing Debate on the Safety of Child Vaccinations As Americans, we have one thing that stands out from many other countries, and that one thing is freedom. We have privileges to do and say what we want to a certain extent, and there is nothing more liberating than that. With the very controversial topic of vaccinations, I feel that although some people believe children should be required to receive certain vaccines, parents should continue to have the freedom to make this important decision…

Vaccines are an easy way to prevent diseases. Vaccinations have gotten rid of many diseases including measles, diphtheria, rubella, and polio. They have also significantly reduced the rate of many other diseases such as chicken pox and pertussis in the United States. The Center Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) has a list of every preventable disease everybody living in the United States should take to ensure their health and safety. Everybody in the United States should be vaccinated against…

Let us not forget that disease such as diphtheria pertussis and tetanus are hardly ever seen medically anyway, so what is the case for vaccinating children against disease which is so rare in America to begin with? Any one person with a rational mind can see that multiplying list of vaccinations is just a…

children many schools will require vaccinations from these main diseases before they are allowed to begin classes. Every vaccination has different risks that come with it, and some are more harmful to children than others. Most of the time children have no complications with the vaccinations, beyond the minimal redness and/or swelling at the injection site. Even with this being the case there is always a risk of the child having a severe allergic reaction after a vaccination. There are some…

Wary parent’s want to protect their children from any kind of risks. Immunizations are available and mandatory upon starting school. There are many different types of immunizations. “Vaccines are a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.” (Mifflin, 2015) Vaccines are a form of…

affects of this disease is common cold, fever, runny nose, and mild cough. If this disease develops fast and dangerously it may even allow the person to cough so hard they vomit, in other words the more scientific name of this word is Bordetella Pertussis. This is also effective on dogs and other animals. It has three stages, Catarrh which is mucus that injures the membranes of the nose and mouth, paroxysmal is an outburst of emotion or action, convalescent which is recovering from that…

A, and rabies are made this way. Using part of the virus is another way of how vaccines are made. Hepatitis B and the HPV shot are made this way. One of the last ways to create a vaccine is by using part of the bacteria. Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis are created this way. Scientists either take the sugar coating of the virus or they take the toxins and inactivate them with a chemical. To make a vaccines, scientists begin growing small amounts of the virus, which must contain only the…

150) Murphy published a study in the British Medical Journal claiming that thimerosal, a preservative used in vaccines in the form of mercury, can cause mercury poisoning in children that were inoculated against pertussis. Federal agencies inspected the dangers of thimerosal in the pertussis vaccine and found the “risk of harm to be unknown but certainly smaller than the risk of infectious disease.” (Conis 152) Murphy’s study struck fear in Americans as the dangers of mercury levels were…

(for example the U.S. went 14 years with little or no reported cases of measles), is resulting in the U.S. being on the verge of an epidemic of measles and pertussis. All cases that have been reported in the U.S. have been caused by people traveling to other countries which do not protect its population under the same guidelines as the U.S. The researchers of the study done by Parker et al., looked at the epidemic…

There are three influential factors and potential problems of Lucy, and one is fussy eating. Despite a low risk, this may inhibit Lucy’s physical development. For preschool children, fussy eating is quite common behaviour, and up to 50% of them are fussy or picky eaters (Tharner et al. 1025, p. 91). Nevertheless, preschool children may have greater risk than other age groups because children in this stage are easy to satisfy their small appetites with unhealthy food, such as snacks (Berger 2014,…