Rubella

Lyme Disease Education There are many diseases in the world such as influenza, rubella and lice. There is one particular disease that will be discussed in depth in this report called Lyme disease. This report will further explain the details of the disease and public health strategies. Ticks Lyme disease is a disease you may get if a tick bites you. Lyme disease is caused by bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. The bacteria is corkscrew-shaped. Ixodes ticks which are also know as…

Pat Van Dyke, a school teacher was watching her eight year old daughter undergo hip surgery. Mary was born with twenty two different handicaps, some being; a heart defect, spina bifida, and a tethered spinal cord. He watched from the hospital as about fifty animal rights demonstrators protesting baboon-to-baby heart transplant. An insulin-controlled diabetic saw this, and described it as very upsetting, and wanted to make her case public, she said “If it wasn’t for researchers injecting a dog…

The Necessity of Children Vaccination The vaccine refusal has already become a social issue. In “Who’s Afraid of a Little Vaccine,” Jeffery Kluger cites evidence that California clocks in at just a 92.7% rate for MMR vaccine and a 92.5% rate for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis., and Colorado rolls in last at a woeful 85.7% and 82.9%. A large number of young parents who hold negative attitudes towards immunization refuse to vaccinate their children. According to Kluger, the higher the…

(1) Patient Information: Katie, 65yrs, F, Caucasian, What insurance do you have? S. CC: Cough started a week ago and not getting better. HPI: Katie is a 65yrs old female came to the clinic along with her son in law, Patrick with c/o cough, which started a week ago and is not getting better. Cough is worse at night, and it wakes her up from her sleep. She also c/o pain on her right side of the chest muscles due to cough. She is feeling very tired and gets easily winded when she takes her daily…

Vaccines for children will be one of the most controversial topics in medicine today and will continue to attract more attention in the years to come. For every parent, there comes a difficult decision that parents have to make when having children, but how many people know the pros and cons of vaccinations. Vaccines have been protecting children for many years from diseases that when becoming an epidemic, killed many. Children should not subject to the susceptibility of having and…

Former President John F. Kennedy was strong supporter of vaccination. During the early 1960’s while he was in office, he created the Vaccine Assistance Act of 1962. This bill would provide vaccination programs for children all across the United States. This effort of JFK’s to help protect children from diseases is now known by health experts as “one of the most successful prevention programs in public health” (Conis 21). His drive to enact this bill promoted the federal government 's involvement…

Andrew Wakefield’s made convictions which described 12 children showing signs of autism, after being vaccinated for measles, mumps and rubella. During the uproar of the controversy, Brain Deer a medical journalist uncovered the scientific forgery of Andrew Wakefield’s research paper. According to Brain Deer’s investigate against the claim of Wakefield’s accusation, he disclosed “Wakefield…

they find out that some vaccines are derived from aborted fetal tissue. On the bright side some vaccinations made from aborted fetal tissue have alternatives that are not made from this. Unfortunately, “vaccines for chickenpox, Hepatitis-A, and Rubella, which are produced solely from aborted fetal tissue, do not have alternative, ethical versions” (Staver). Vaccines for Hepatitis-B, Polio, and Mumps all have alternatives which are more ethical allowing parents who find those vaccinations…

The problem often is a question of perception. Dr. Andrew Wakefield is still defending himself and decrying the MMR (the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine). The authors of the popular diet books are as fervent as religious messiahs. Whether their facts are shaky, nonexistent, or selectively chosen, they still believe them, or at least refuse to deny them. Factual arguments don’t seem like they…

None of these studies showed any connection between the two. Much of the hysteria over vaccines and autism can be attributed to Dr. Andrew Wakefield. He conducted a study in 1998 that linked the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine with autism. It was later discovered that the doctor misrepresented and altered the medical history of every one of the patients involved in his study in a deliberate attempt to reach the results he did. Of the twelve patients involved in…