Poliomyelitis

MEASLES According to the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), Rubeola, or “red” measles, is a highly contagious respiratory disease spread by coughing, sneezing, or simply being in close contact with someone who is infected with it, even when the rash is not visible. Measles tends to be more severe in adults than in children, with a higher fever, more prominent rash, and more complications. Symptoms start with a fever, cough, runny nose, red irritated eyes, sore throat with tiny white…

Born January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the only child of James and Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt, a very wealthy couple. In his early days of education, FDR 's parents and private tutors taught him. In the eighth grade, he went to Groton School, a boarding school in Massachusetts. In 1900, Roosevelt went to Harvard and received a degree in history in only three years. He next studied law at Columbia University and passed the board exam in 1907. During his time at…

FDR: A Natural Born Leader During his inaugural speech in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt once said “The only thing we have to fear itself,” (Roosevelt) in attempt to inform the country that he is going to help them pull out of their current economic downfall. The 1930’s marked some of this country’s darkest times. Not only did the Great Depression strike, but the Dust Bowl, one of the worst droughts in U.S history, occurred during this time as well. In 1932, the peak of the Great Depression,…

Prosperity of the 1950 's The 1950 's was a very flourishing decade and the economy was prospering because Americans were spending more on items that were once scarce during the war. The growing rate of the nations supplies and services actually doubled and rose from approximately $300 billion in 1950 to $500 billion in 1960.The increase in spending, fueled by the cold war and military spending during the Korean conflict, was an very important boost to the economy. The fundamentals of the…

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a great man and many consider him to be one of the greatest presidents in the history of the United States of America. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only president to ever serve for more than two terms and died in office during his fourth term. Franklin D. Roosevelt is known for successfully getting the country past the events of the Great Depression, and World War II. Franklin D. Roosevelt encountered many enemies in World War II including the Nazis, and he…

Arguments for and against animal experimentation Animals have been used time and again at some stage in the records of biomedical studies. Early Greek physician-scientists, inclusive of Aristotle, (384-322 BC) and Erasistratus, (304-258 BC), accomplished experiments on dwelling animals (Franco, 2013). Likewise, Galen (129-199/217), a Greek physician who practiced in Rome and became a giant within the history of medication, performed animal experiments to increase the expertise of anatomy, body…

Throughout history, animal experimentation has proved to be crucial to the development of our society. Since as early as the 17th century, we see how animal testings have led to important discoveries such as the understanding of the blood circulation and the function of the lungs in Medieval Europe . And now, scientists are relying on chimpanzees in hopes to help create the Hepatitis C vaccine . Overall, I believe that the state’s policy on animal experiments, as it is covered in the Criminal…

The beauty of life lies in the little things that we do each day that create special and remarkable memories. The mystery of life will be the moment we are gone from this world which make every instant worth living for. According to Grace Halden, immortality has not yet been achieved for humans, but many have sought immortality in various ways as did a Chinese Emperor who once ingested mercury in the hopes that it would lead him to an eternal life. (Halden 4) One would not think that dying is…

it is a much greater threat to test on humans than to test on animals. The medicine being tested on these animals are not for fun but do benefit mankind. Kehinde explains how chimpanzees and monkeys were used “for the study of hepatitis B and poliomyelitis leading to the development of effective vaccines against these diseases. (They See a Rat, We Seek a Cure for Diseases: The Current Status of Animal Experimentation in Medical Practice, pg. 54) He also talks about how genetically modified…

The advent of tissue culturing in the early 1900s has shaped modern science tremendously. Fields such as cell biology, molecular biology, biochemistry and many others are heavily dependent on cell culturing to carry out experiments. Cell culturing initially began when pioneering scientists sought a way to study cells outside their tissue origin. They began with tissues and then later on, techniques were developed that enabled the study of individual cells in vitro that would give rise to…