Smallpox

No parent would want their child to die at a young age due to an illness that could have been prevented with a vaccination. If children were to receive all of their necessary vaccines, then they will not have a risk of getting an incurable illness. Vaccines prevent children from getting sick. According to Whitman et al. (2015), “Approximately half the children were vaccinated against influenza; yet ninety percent of deaths occurred among unvaccinated children” (pg. 1802). In other words,…

After waiting patiently for nine months to meet their precious newborn many parents are apprehensive of any medical treatment being performed on them just hours after they are born. Doctors do their best to explain the importance of each exam and test being performed, however, hearing an infants scream due to a vaccine isn’t very reassuring. Between the time the newborn leaves the hospital and their 18th birthday their parents will make countless decisions on behalf of them. The decisions range…

Ever since the invention of the smallpox vaccine, more than 200 years ago, there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the ethics, effectiveness, and safety of vaccinations. Over the past few years, it has been widely debated whether laws should be introduced that make some or all vaccines mandatory for children. Personally, I am a strong supporter of creating such laws as those who choose not to vaccinate their children put them, and others, at risk for deadly diseases. The four-way test…

The theory behind immunisations originated in Europe in the 1800’s, after an English doctor, Edward Jenner used a small dose of the smallpox virus to protect against smallpox in 1796 . Since then, immunisation, the process of fortifying an individual’s immune system against an agent has become a common method used to prevent diseases in men, women and children. Childhood immunisation has become a widely debated topic in Australia in recent years. It’s especially important for children to be…

vaccinating them as soon as possible, (also known as ring vaccination) which allows effective recovery and prevention from any further contamination. This was tested with the disease of smallpox. The World Health Association worked to rid the disease and in 1980 was said to be fully eradicated. The last case ever seen of smallpox was in Somalia in 1977 (Disease Eradication). This has given the world of vaccinations a whole new level of hope. The World Health Association has attempted to…

became the center of trade where foreigners would dock their ships and trade with the Hawaiian community. Along with their goods for trade, foreigners also brought with them many diseases that the Hawaiian population was not prepared for, including smallpox. Kaka'ako, being a center of commerce, became the breeding ground…

But now with vaccines most of these diseases have been eradicated. “Tetanus is also a major cause of death. Most childhood diseases are now preventable with vaccines, and smallpox has been eliminated worldwide.” (Diseases, Childhood, 1) Other than smallpox many other diseases were declared eradicated with the use of vaccines. When polio was a major threat to the people in the United States many people, including children, would get paralyzed or even die from this…

that may harm you and those around you. According to Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “Almost two centuries after Jenner published his hope that vaccination could annihilate smallpox, on May 8th, 1980, the 33rd World Health Assembly officially declared the world free of this disease” (History of Smallpox). Due to vaccinations, diseases that have swept the nation in the past have disappeared. If everyone was immunized, diseases that could sweep the nation could permanently disappear. By…

be mandatory to our society today. Therefore in the past, there were many cases of diseases spreading. Diseases are contagious though touch, coughs, and etc. Edward Jenner was the first to create the world’s first vaccine, after an outbreak of smallpox occurred in 1796. Vaccines have saved hundreds and thousands of lives ever since vaccines were introduced to the world. Since then,…

that has been afforded to us by public health programs. We wound up in this fearless era through major medical discoveries in the last few hundred years. In the late 18th century, Edward Jenner created the first vaccine which was used to prevent smallpox. Since then, we’ve gotten the polio vaccine, the vaccine…