evaluate this bill, we must take into account the economic impact that it will have on the country. Using the adult immunization schedule as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Vaccine Price List also by the CDC, the initial cost of vaccines would be $85.48/person for normal healthy adults and a maximum of $113.21/person for high risk adults needing additional immunizations (CDC, 2011c; CDC, 2011a, p. 2). According to the National Center for Veterans Analysis
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1796, Edward Jenner created the 1st vaccine by injecting material from a cowpox virus into an 8-year-old, hoping that it would keep him from getting the measles, and this vaccine was successful. You might have heard of a vaccine, but what does it do exactly? A vaccine is a small dose of a killed microbe injected in the body sent to strengthen the immune system of that particular disease for the future. Many people have different opinions on whether or not vaccines are beneficial. They are, in fact
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your family every day. One day, you discover you have a fever and a perpetual headache; adding to the severe back pain you have been experiencing, you assume you have influenza. However, your suspicion is invalidated when scarlet lesions begin to appear on your face, hands, and your body. It dawns on you that you don’t have influenza, you have smallpox, and consequently you remember: smallpox does not have a cure. Thankfully, this situation would never occur today due to the remarkable scientific
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Question 1 The disease that I choose is Influenza or commonly known as the flu. Symptoms of the flu include fever, mild to severe coughs, fatigue, runny nose, headaches, nausea, and soreness of the throat. Influenza is usually self-diagnose by looking at the symptoms however, other viruses could cause symptoms similar to those of the flu. A common test for Influenza is the Rapid Influenza Diagnose Test or RIDT. In the RIDT, a swab is inserted into a patient’s nasal passage way and the swab is rotated
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Vaccinations: Should We or Shouldn’t We Advances in science and how vaccines are developed have greatly reduced many diseases that at one time spread like wildfire throughout the United States. “Because of the success of vaccines, most young people have never seen the devastating effects that diseases such as polio, measles, or whooping cough (pertussis) can have on a family or community” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). However, diseases such as polio and measles, which
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What is a virus and how does it work? Before you read about vaccines you should have a little bit of an informational back around of what the vaccine was invented for; and that can also be known as a virus. A virus is a small infectious agent that can reproduce only surrounded by the cells of other organisms. There an epic debate in the sicftic community on where they alive or not most believe they are not because are not made of cells, cannot reproduce on their own, do not grow or undergo division
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Epidemiology by definition is the study of the distribution and patterns of health-events, health- characteristics and their causes or influences in well-defined populations. It is the cornerstone method of public health research, and helps inform policy decisions and evidence-based by identifying risk factors for disease and targets for preventive medicine. Epidemiologists are involved in the design of studies, collection and statistical analysis of data, and interpretation and dissemination
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(Ehreth, 2002). The vaccine program has had extraordinary success in decreasing the spread of preventable diseases (Zimmerman, 2000). Research shows vaccines are safe, provide a way to protect your child and society, and help avoid wide spread disease. Vaccines are not completely 100% safe, but it is safer than the infectious disease it is preventing (Concerns about vaccine safety, 2009). With any drugs, there are side effects, but serious ones are rare (Concerns about vaccine safety, 2009).
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contracts with governments to supply vaccines. The United States maintains a Strategic National Stockpile in the event of a public health emergency. This stockpile includes Vendor Managed Inventories that are maintained by the vaccine manufacturers. Costello is considering a potential contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to manufacture and supply flu vaccines. Under this contract, HHS would order 20 million doses of the vaccine at a total price of $1 billion. HHS would
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