Is The Flu a Virus or Is the Vaccine? With the 300 plus million people in the United States, around 960,000 of them get a toxic virus put into their bodies each year. That toxic chemical is shown by the pharmaceutical companies as a Vaccine. Many different studies and reliable sources have shown countless different reasons why the pharmaceutical companies want to keep this deathly injection on the market and how much they benefit from it, why vaccines are not as good as some industries make…
Rhetoric 306 11/29/2017 Are vaccines autistic? Several interested groups are debating the main question, do vaccines cause autism? One group of stakeholders tends to say that there is no link between vaccines and autism. These people tend to care about the research that medical professionals have taken over decades past. Another group believes that there really is a link between vaccines and autism. These stakeholders care about the research and stories about people taking vaccines, then getting…
in America, largely because the US is a developed country. He goes off and talks about why people typically don’t worry about microbial organisms. He says that most Americans don’t have to worry about infectious diseases like malaria, measles, or polio because of the prevention tactics used by county, state, and federal health officials. Some of these tactics include implementing clean water supply, enforcing vaccination, and finally, pasteurization of many milk products…
Immunizations are one of the greatest public health achievements, but also have been extremely controversial since they were first created in the late 1700s. Vaccines can be seen as dangerous, unconstitutional, and unethical to anti-vaccinators, but pro-vaccinators see them as an absolute must to keep communicable diseases at bay. Public health officials have been relentless in their efforts to keep immunization rates high through education and laws – with laws ultimately having been more…
The first ever modern vaccine was created just over 200 years ago by Dr. Edward Jenner. It was made to treat the smallpox outbreak Europe was facing at the time. Nowadays, we have hundreds of vaccines available for almost every sort of infection. The idea behind the vaccine is simple. According to the CDC (2013), “Vaccines help develop immunity by imitating an infection. This type of infection, however, does not cause illness. The infection does cause the immune system to produce T-lymphocytes…
Your child is lying in a hospital bed covered in red spots. You assumed it was just poison ivy or a few bug bites thinking it will cure up by itself, but it does not. He or she is suffering from fatigue, high fever, loss of appetite, sore throat, and swollen lymphs. The blood work returns (just to be safe) and the doctor tells you, that your child has the chickenpox. The doctor informs you that the body will eventually heal itself, but prescribes medication and give advice on how to deal with…
Smallpox is responsible for the death of hundreds of millions of people. It is considered the world 's deadliest disease ever. Vaccines have been around since 1796 when Edward Jenner, an English physician and scientist, discovered the vaccine by applying fluid from cowpox blister to an young boy 's skin. Although this discovery eventually brought an end to the smallpox outbreak, many people still argue against getting vaccinated. I have never thought that getting vaccinated can come with any…
based on fear and not on scientific evidence. Parents express fear of their child contracting autism and otherwise being harmed by inactive ingredients included in vaccines. Making it a priority to educate the risks as well as the benefits of vaccinations during routine check-ups may help curb some of the fear associated with vaccines.…
The Revolutionary War encompassed a six year period that was filled with pain and suffering. Throughout the war, there are believed to have been greater than 25,000 deaths with that same number of injured (Schultz, 2013). The wartime also introduced disease as well as terrible infections from battle wounds of the war. Many of the deaths to disease came from a major small pox epidemic. Even though the amount of suffering was great, there were a number of groups that had great…
Washing hands, covering coughs, and getting vaccinations are the typical prevents for not getting sick. However, what if the virus it so unknown that there aren’t vaccinations to prevent it? Then what does an individual do to prevent this new virus from infecting them? This is called an influenza pandemic. According to the CDC, an influenza pandemic is a new virus that is different from any influenza seen and effects the entire globe. Additionally, due to its constant changing it is very easy…