Vaccine

inconvenience to an otherwise healthy person (Plotkin MD, Mass Vaccination: Global Aspects- Progress and Obstacles). For herd immunity to work, a large percentage of the population must be immune. Herd immunity benefits those who have allergies to vaccine components, cancer patients whose immune systems cannot fight disease (oftentimes despite being vaccinated), and those who are too young to be vaccinated. As vaccination rates in the general population decrease, the risk to these individuals…

where water sanitation is lacking. The focus of this paper is primarily on cholera’s outbreak history and disastrous effects on populations. This paper also discusses varying solutions that have been implemented in numerous countries with a focus on vaccine use in Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the world with a turbulent history, versus long-term water safety solutions in Guinea, Conakry, a West-African country ravaged by poverty, disease, and corruption. The main purpose is to compare…

concerning vaccination for children has been going on for many years now, making it difficult for many parents to decide what is best for their children. Doctor’s tell parents that they are safe, but how much do parents really know about vaccination? A vaccine is a product that produces immunity from a disease and can be administered through needle injections, by mouth, or by aerosol (Vaccines.gov (n.d.) “Basics”). Another way to explain a vaccination is that it is a weak form of a bacterial…

“Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It 's a simple message parent need to keep hearing” (Jeffrey Kluger). Immunizations are the most important things for a child to receive in their young years. There are many immunizations made for different types of serious diseases such as measles, polio, and smallpox. Edward Jenner was the first person to create an Immunization or vaccination. He created the vaccine for smallpox in 1796. Smallpox was a serious and contagious disease that would be…

let them die from a preventable disease? “Vaccines were used as early as 1000 AD”(procon.org). Since they have been around for a very long time they probably are very useful. “The first vaccine in the United States was in 1721 when Cotton Mather encouraged vaccination in response to an outbreak of smallpox”(procon.org). According to procon.org, the first smallpox vaccine was invented by Edward Jenner and was used for over two hundred years. This vaccine saved many lives over the years. The first…

Immunization at Birth Vaccines are one of the successful advances in public health history, and are tested thoroughly by scientists to ensure their safety and effectiveness. Vaccines are developed, tested, and regulated even more thoroughly than non-vaccine drugs because the number of human subjects in vaccine clinical trials is usually greater (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). The current system for developing, testing, and regulating vaccines developed during the 20th century, which…

What are vaccines? In general, a vast majority of the public could answer this question. In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics endorses at least 14 vaccines for infants by the age of two (AAP.org). The vaccine is considered by many doctors, scientists, and experts to be one of the greatest accomplishments of modern medicine and the idea of a vaccine, itself, is radical. Essentially, a vaccine is a weakened, usually dead, strain of a disease or virus. In response to this strain, antibodies…

Children Aged 19–35 Months, nationally less than one percent of children received no vaccinations and the Healthy People 2020 target of ninety percent coverage for vaccinations was achieved for four vaccines: poliovirus, HepB, MMR, and Varicella however coverage remained low for the combined seven-vaccine series (Hill, Elam-Evans, Yankey, Singleton, & Dietz, 2015). In addition, national disparities in vaccination coverage were seen amongst children living below the poverty line with a seven to…

25, the CDC (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, decided to produce a new vaccine for shingles, a disease that occurs frequently in seniors. The CDC is a primer public health institute based in Atlanta. This new vaccine called Shingrix, was approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) a few days before the CDC decision was made. Shingrix was given recommendation over the only Shingles vaccine on the market over a decade, Zotavax. Insurance companies have agreed to cover the…

disabilities such as autism, delayed development, and mental retardation. Other parents believe that the scheduling of vaccines close together impact the health of their child and see it as unsafe. Vaccines are meant to trick the body into believing they have already had the disease and then create antibodies that later help prevent contracting the disease. When enough people have vaccines, it contributes to a herd immunity, which can prevent widespread outbreaks and make it safer for people…