Polio vaccine

saved from death and 322 million cases of childhood illnesses were prevented between 1994 and 2014 due to vaccination.1 Vaccinations could be considered one of the greatest medical achievements in modern development. Because of the invention of vaccines, childhood diseases have been largely eradicated all over the world.2 Vaccinations outweigh the potential risk of diseases that they are created to prevent, therefore for the safety of the population they should be mandatory. With medical…

pain, not for long term pain. There is a vaccine for shingles. It is called Zostavax, and was developed in 2006. It can reduce the risk of getting shingles by 51%. The vaccine can provide protection from the shingles virus for up to five years. There are only a few side effects of the shingles vaccine. They include soreness, swelling, redness in 33% of people who use the vaccine. Also, headaches in 1.4% of people who use the vaccine. Shingles, for the most part, isn't a…

Ethics means doing the right action, based off virtue ethics. To support this definition the novella excerpt “Lather And Nothing Else”, the article “Who Will Save The Savior Siblings”, and the song “Independence Day” all demonstrate virtuous ethics. Initially, killing is wrong because virtuously killing is not temperament. Hernando Tellez persuades revolutionists to not go against his or her morals in the novella excerpt “Lather and Nothing Else,”. The barber in this excerpt decides not to kill…

In his “The Tipping Point”, with the help of various illustrations, Gladwell points out how things become epidemic and how little things make big differences in social realities. Reading “The Law of the Few” made me think about how ideas and behavior can spread like diseases or viruses. Also, the book made me think of life as an epidemic. As far as I understand, one of the reasons why Gladwell brings examples of epidemics and viruses is that a lot of things in life, such as ideas, behavior and…

Edible vaccines Abstract Vaccines are widely used in the whole word. The death rate caused by the infectious organisms has been greatly reduced by the use of vaccines. However traditional vaccines have side-effects. Recently a newer approach to overcome the problems of the traditional vaccines has emerged. Edible vaccines can be better alternatives to the traditional vaccines as they can solve all the problems associated with traditional vaccines. For the production of edible vaccines gene of…

Otitis media (OM) is any inflammation of the middle ear and is very common in children. Acute otitis media is the rapid onset of OM with one of more of the following symptoms: otalgia, otorrhea, headache, fever, irritability, loss of appetite, vomiting, and diarrhea (Waseem, 2015). Otitis media with effusion normally occurs after an episode of acute otitis media. Patients may complain of hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo, and otalgia. Chronic suppurative otitis media is a persistant infection…

The HD disease is an inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. Most people with the disease develop signs and symptoms in the 30’s or 40’s. In this case study there is a married couple who wishes to have a child but the mother is the carrier of the disease. HD is a dominant disorder which means that her child will have a 50% chance of getting the disorder. They feel if they conceive the natural way they would be risking their child’s health so they…

Herpes simplex 2 virus (HSV-2) is a DNA virus that stems from the Herpesviridae family and belongs to Simplexvirus genus (Talaro, & Chess, 2015, p. 169). Herpesviridae consists of more than 100 herpesviruses that occur in animals; eight human heran pesviruses are known, with three subfamilies: Alphaherpesvirinae, Betaherpesvirinae, and Gammaherpesvirinae. Herpes simplex virus-2 is part of the Alphaherpesvirinae subfamily (Norberg, Bergström, Rekabdar, Lindh, & Liljeqvist, 2004). One of the…

The Aminata muscaria is a very toxic plant to dogs and cats. If ingested, dogs can result in acute gastrointestinal distress that precedes a potentially life-threatening central neurologic syndrome characterized by seizures, tremors, and somnolence (Rossmeisl, Jr.,Blodgett, Jones, Higgins, Ellis, 2006). In a case study three dogs were presented with the toxic mushroom Amanita muscaria that developed respiratory arrest. Of the three dogs, one was euthanized and the remaining two recovered fully…

Pathologic heart murmurs are the number one birth defect in infants. It affects 36,000 infants in the United States. Many children can die from it, but many children can also survive it. Infants can be born with it, and they can also develop the disease as they grow older, in this essay, we will explain to you the causes of heart murmurs, the treatment of heart murmurs, and the symptoms of heart murmurs. Pay attention, because your son can be born with this. Causes of heart murmurs Pathologic…