Vaccines

APA Written Assignment: MMR Vaccine Healthy People 2020 is a report created by the Surgeon General that focuses on wide-spread, “health promotion and disease prevention (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.).” One of the major goals Healthy People 2020 specifics is, “increasing immunizations and reducing preventable infectious diseases (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.).” In regards to this goal, one of the major vaccinations seeing a drastic decrease…

Vaccine doesn’t work is understandable, but with more education people will understand more about the flu vaccine. People who have had bad luck with the flu vaccine tend to not get the flu vaccine and say they are better off taking their chances with the flu. Religion plays a big part of people opting out of the flu vaccine as well as some people just plain being afraid of needles. People today still refuse to get the flu shot for fear of getting sick, and also When the flu season kicks off many…

future. The Vaccine for Children is a program, also known as VFC, is a program that is overseen by the Illinois Department of…

Final Project Part B Milestone 1 The crises situation I chose was The Vaccine War. The topic of vaccines stood out to me because I have heard multiple opinions about vaccines while growing up. Inside my family home I saw my parents’ opinion on vaccines change. I was vaccinated as a child, but as I got older my parents began to disagree with vaccinations. Seeing my parents change their opinion on the topic of course intrigued my young mind. Community opinion also lead me to choose this topic. I…

(HPV) is a very widespread infection that affects many in today’s society. The numerous adverse effects that arise from the virus are what make HPV such a large concern. Currently, there are three human papillomavirus vaccines, Gardasil, Cervarix, and Gardasil 9. All three of these vaccines protect against four different strains of HPV. These four strains, 6, 11, 16 and 18, are responsible for the majority of adverse effects related to HPV. These adverse…

The idea that vaccines cause autism has been a hot topic of choice for many years. There is an equal amount of data that shows vaccines are the cause for autism and that vaccines do not cause autism, so which side is right and which is wrong? Vaccines linking to autism will be explored through the composition of said vaccines, other factors believed to cause autism, and how scientists will approach the rise of cases. It is believed that the whole vaccine itself causes autism, but in actuality,…

Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine. It has prevented a large number of potential TB deaths each year, yet remains controversial due to its highly variable protection against pulmonary disease. The BCG vaccine has been administered since 1921 and after years of use in countries with high TB rates, its effectiveness at eradicating TB as a public health problem has been suboptimal [1]. While BCG vaccination in infants has been successful at reducing rates of disseminated disease in childhood, the…

Are Mandatory Vaccines Good? In 1796, a medical scientistic known as Edward Jenner who operated in Britain discovered that if you inject a weakened version of a disease into a body, then it will help it fight the real version of the virus. This method became to be known as a vaccination which comes from the latin word vacca which means cow. This is because the first disease to ever be combated with vaccines was cowpox, a less serious version of smallpox which was on an outbreak in 1796.As of now…

against these diseases and had their lives ruined by arduous illnesses. With the invention of the vaccine, through injecting dead or weakened diseases, a person’s body is able to defend itself against otherwise vigorous diseases.…

Vaccines: Why Society Needs Them Diseases such as the measles, polio, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and whooping cough can all be prevented by getting a vaccine. This list of diseases above are only a couple of the illnesses that can be vaccinated against. The medical field has come a long way with keeping society healthy. The first vaccine ever invented was for rabies in 1885, since then the medical field has came up with different vaccines for almost every disease out there. Vaccines took a hit…