Rubella

incompatibility between mother and child, severe jaundice during infancy, and severe oxygen deprivation or head trauma during birth can all be causes. Infections during pregnancy means that the nervous system of the fetus can suffer some damage. Rubella and toxoplasmosis-- which is found in cat feces-- can cause infections and prevent the fetus from developing a healthy nervous system, leading to cerebral paralysis. Jaundice is a blood/liver disorder that can lead to complications if its…

Vaccinations currently serve as one of the most essential sources in medicine because of the huge amount of infections and diseases it is able to fight and prevent. However, science isn’t yet able to come up with a vaccine for all diseases for a couple different reasons. One significant factor is that many of the stronger viruses mutate so rapidly that vaccines are unable to work efficient enough to fight it off completely. Along with that, the cost of developing each vaccine is so large that…

Immunization: “the creation of immunity usually against a particular disease; especially treatment (as by vaccination) of an organism for the purpose of making it immune to a particular pathogen” (Merriam-Webster). This method of eradicating a disease has gone on for many years, dating back to the 1700’s, when Edward Jenner studied Cowpox and small pox immunity. Immunization first began in the United States in 1721 when a Puritan Minister Cotton Mather, encouraged smallpox vaccination in…

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 98.3% of the population of children entering kindergarten in America are vaccinated (CDC.gov, 2015). On the other hand, individual state exemption levels are anywhere from .1 percent in Mississippi all the way up to 6.5 percent in Idaho. The trouble with this information is that in order for vaccinations to be successful and to wipe out diseases, everyone needs to be vaccinated. Having mandatory vaccinations for children entering school will help to…

Vaccines stimulate the production of antibodies to provide your body against many diseases. “Vaccines … have been proven to be safe, and what happens if you don’t take vaccines is children get measles and die. So the anti-vaccine crowd has … kept measles around in a way … it’s a tragedy, because so much is done to make sure these things are safe” (Oshinsky). Vaccines are developed and manufactured by scientists in order to prevent the population from contracting a disease and/or potentially…

Agatha Christie is the most widely spread author in history with over two billion copies of her books sold and has been translated into forty-five different languages since 1920. Influenced by authors of her time and the newly founded mystery genre she is founder of the murder mystery (Bunsen). Agatha Christie was influenced by many different aspects of her life including family, work, and where she lived. In Christie’s early childhood she developed relationships with her imaginary friends.…

Discuss the physical assessment of a patient who presences with the complaint of cervical lymphadenopathy. “Lymphadenopathy is characterized by enlarged lymph nodes. Lymph node enlargement is caused by an increase in size and number of its germinal centers caused by proliferation of lymphocytes and monocytes or invasion by malignant cells. Normally, lymph nodes are not palpable or are barely palpable. Enlarged lymph nodes are characterized by being palpable and often may be tender or painful to…

In recent years, the utilization of vaccinations has become a commonly debated topic. Different immunizations are given to put a stop to vaccine preventable diseases such as Hepatitis B, IPV (Polio), Varicella (Chicken Pox) and many more. The most common way for someone to become infected with a disease is from contact with other people and public places. In the United States, children are required to receive vaccines before entering Kindergarten at public schools. These young children’s immune…

Pro-Vaccination Frames: Not Up for Debate: The Science Behind Vaccination argues that vaccines are not, in fact, associated with autism as proved by scientific evidence. The Science Behind Vaccination frame insists that the public should not be any more concerned by this topic of conversation than in the past. This article uses scientific studies to argue that vaccinations save lives of all children and the current vaccination schedule is crucial. While the author suggests many are still…

Vaccines help to eradicate deadly diseases. Today children are vaccinated from many diseases starting at birth but some parents decide not to vaccinate their children, diseases are coming back into our society that have not been reported since the 1950’s. Anti-vaccinators have argued that it is a parent’s right whether they vaccinate or not. Many nearly eradicated diseases are making a comeback with anti-vaccine activists pushing uninformed parents to question doctors and no longer vaccinate…