Vaccines: The Right Choice? Alex Hauke Walmart Pharmacy Abstract This research paper takes an in depth look at the question of whether vaccines are the right choice when it comes to your health and staying healthy. Opposing views say that vaccines are unsafe and pose more risks than benefits, this paper explores those claims using rebuttable sources and helps readers to better understand vaccines and what their benefits and risks are. Most believe that the benefits of vaccines far outweigh
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experiment but later on was rewarded with a free lease on a house. This was when Phipps married and had children. * Phipps later attended Jenner’s funeral. * Jenner used Phipps’ example to demonstrate his success on the vaccination. * It is called a vaccination because the word “vacca” in Latin means cow, therefore giving the credit to the cowpox that prevents the disease. * There is
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Brief History of Mumps and who can Be Affected Mumps have been around for a thousand years, since the 5th Century BCE, Hippocrates an ancient Physician from Greece was the first to administer and describe the symptoms of mumps as a virus infection that usually affects children. This disease spread rapidly through direct contact with people that are also infected and this virus spread even more in respiratory droplets or airborne transmission (Dworkin, 2010). Mumps is said to be discovered by Ernest
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Sound of One Hand Clapping Introduction Greeting my fellow classmates, happy holiday, after this week reading I began to appreciate public health the more, I am so happy to be here. Anyway, concerning this week discussion, I will start by saying that the unwillingness of the health sector to transfer the outcomes of medical research about the pathogenesis of diseases into public health policy has not augured well for our communities. The aetiology of diseases, health, and wellness is not only biologically
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Vaccines, if people allow them to be, are the single most effective way to protect oneself from a deadly disease because it is the only option to use if one was to have contracted a disease. To understand how vaccines work, one must know how diseases are fought by the body. According to healthychildren.org, they explain that when someone gets infected his or her body relies on the immune system to fight the invading organism. When the white blood cells are informed that there is a foreign substance
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The advantage of having specific criteria is that it excludes what the study considered insignificant traumas. Furthermore, this makes the criteria less subjective since a decreased range in motion is an objective measure, which increases the consistency of the results. However, by having a more narrow scope, it means that the study underestimated the number of participants that were injured acutely. A limitation of only doing radiographs on suspected fractures however, leads to a possible misclassification
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In the article reviewed the aim was to examine which of the three vaccines is the most appropriate against acute bacterial meningitis. The three vaccines are: Hemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), Streptococcus pneumonia (S. pneumoniae) and Neisseria meningitides (N. meningitidis). The study under review took place in Turkey from 2005-2012. Acute bacterial meningitis is one of the most severe infectious diseases, which causes physical and neurological problems and even mortality [1, 2]. This disease
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Diphtheria causes a thick covering in the back of the throat. –It can lead to breathing problems, paralysis, heart failure, and even death. Tetanus (Lockjaw) causes painful tightening of the muscles, usually all over the body. –It can lead to “locking” of the jaw so the victim cannot open his mouth or swallow. Tetanus leads to death in up to 2 out of 10 cases. Pertussis (Whooping Cough) causes coughing spells so bad that it is hard for infants to eat, drink, or breathe. These spells can last for
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Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder that affects the immune system of the host. It causes damage to the small intestine if the person ingests even a small crumb of something that contains the protein ‘gluten’. Gluten can be found in barley, oats, rye, and wheat. It is very common that people who have celiac disease don’t even know it. Worldwide, it affects 1 in 100 people and in the U.S. two and a half million people are undiagnosed and are very much so at risk. The longer you go without knowing
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Survivor’s Book Highlights a Growing Epidemic: Macular Degeneration Alan N. McClain survived a fast-growing eye disease. Now, he is on a mission to help others overcome it. The former management systems analyst emerged as his own eye doctor when he suffered – and beat – macular degeneration, a condition of the retina of the eye that can appear at age 50 and above. The condition could lead to blurry vision in the center of the person’s sight that could prevent him/her from reading, recognizing
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