Polio

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…

It is not possible to write an effective essay about animal experimentation without having to resort to an emotional appeal. Though Heloisa Sabin and Jane Goodall could have avoided the use of pathos in their respective pieces, “Animal Research Saves Lives” and “A Question of Ethics,” they choose not to because they understood, to some degree, the rhetorical triangle and its role in formulating effective arguments. The term “rhetorical triangle” makes it evident that ethos, logos and pathos are…

she had known and declined, a cure would not have been developed. The discovery of what scientists found in Henrietta Lacks would become the key to creating a vaccine for the polio virus disease. Henrietta’s discovery allowed a field and understanding of virology and a vaccine that would have the potential to eradicate the polio virus disease and further examine the cause of HPV amongst other sexually transmitted diseases that Henrietta had contracted. Despite controversy on the violation of…

Vaccines have been used to protect children from deadly diseases such as polio, smallpox, and measles. Those diseases used to kill thousands of people including many children, but with the use of vaccines the number of cases of these diseases has gone down. Herd immunity is the resistance to the spread of a contagious disease…

developed by Jonas Salk, first tested in 1952, and announced to the world by Salk on April 12, 1955. The Salk vaccine, or inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), consists of an injected dose of killed poliovirus and the body will produce antibodies against polio. Right after many vaccines were produced and distributed to the public. With everyone vaccinated it…

effectiveness of vaccines. Polio, whose most famous victim was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was another disease that was successfully eliminated through the use of vaccines. In 1950s America, polio infected thousands of children, leaving many dead or paralyzed. 1952, in particular, had a record 57,000 cases; 21,000 of those infected were left paralyzed and another 3,000 were killed. However, through the work of researchers such as Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, effective polio vaccines were…

Her maiden name was Dorothea Nutzhorn. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was a stay at home mom. Her mom helped take care of Dorothea and Martin, her brother. Dorothea was diagnosed with polio at the age of 7. Her polio impaired her right leg and her foot noticeably. After being diagnosed with polio, 6 years later her parents divorced. She put the blame of the divorce on her father and took up her mother’s maiden name as hers. During high school Dorothea Lange decided to go after…

Immunization Immunization immunization, what an important impact immunization had on our society, country and the world. Before we understood disease and its causes, humans just accepted the fact that some people just were prone to certain illness and some where not. Then as technology advanced we began to ask the question, why do people get sick? More specifically, why is did my loved one get sick? Why did the whole family die from a sickness that only one family member obtained? These…

coordinator from Colorado, this rhetoric is the preferred representation of her work experience and rhetorical output. Bihr’s rhetoric is also chosen for its application of the distinctiveness principle, because Bihr was personally afflicted by the polio epidemic of 1952; she also elaborates on unique topics of ethical regulations and family values that support her rhetoric (Bihr, 2015, p. 1). The topics in Bihr’s rhetoric set it aside from standard news and journal articles that only find the…

and a subunit/conjugate vaccine. The live vaccines have live germs in them and some live vaccines are the flu vaccine and the rotavirus. The killed vaccines are the vaccines that contain weakened or dead germs in them. Some of these vaccines include Polio and Hepatitis A. The toxoid vaccine are ones that are made out of inactivated toxins. These include the Diptheria vaccine and Tetanus. Finally, there are the subunit vaccines. They are made up of parts of the pathogen. Some of these vaccines…