A European physician, Professor A Weichselbaum, discovered the cause of the mysterious cerebro-spinal meningitis illness in 1887 and Penicillin was the first antibiotic used to fight the disease. In 1978 the first vaccine was created and mass vaccinations during that year caused a substantial decline in the number of meningitis outbreaks (Fredericks, n.d.). There are three main types of meningococcal disease serogroups: B, C, and Y. Worldwide there are also A and W-135. USA vaccines cover A, C,
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COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT TASK 2 Measles is a virus that is spread by droplets through coughing and sneezing or by contact on surfaces. People infected with measles are contagious up to four days before and after the measles rash appears. Measles is highly contagious, 9 out of 10 people that come in contact with the measles virus will contract it. The highly contagious nature of measles makes widespread infection a very real threat to those who are not vaccinated (Transmission of Measles, 2014)
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be characterized as small bumps which then develop into blisters that are both fluid-filled and have scabs that are formed by the crust that forms over these blisters. Since chickenpox is very contagious, patients that have not received the vaccination are most likely to acquire the virus. Over 90% of patients that dwell within the same
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2013 10:31am Tags: Department of Health The Department of Health has added free anti-pneumonia vaccination to its immunization program for children in the country's health centers. DOH Secretary Enrique Ona said this is another historic milestone to the DOH's Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI). “We are introducing the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) to the Philippine vaccination program for infants,” Ona said on the DOH's Facebook page. “This is part of our goal to achieve
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Risk Versus Reward: The Continuing Vaccination Question As young Americans living in the twenty first century, vaccines have always had a place in our lives. It is taught to us at a young age that vaccines are not only beneficial but necessary to the pursuit of healthy and long lives. For decades, we have been giving vaccines to ourselves and our children without question because the doctors say we should and they have the education, not us. The number of vaccines that children are mandated to
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cost-effective health interventions of all time. Despite this, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.7 million annual deaths among children under 5 years of age are due to diseases that could have been prevented by routine vaccination (WHO, 2010). For example, although it is estimated that Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) vaccines reach about 80% of children globally, the number of unimmunized children under 1 year of age who did not receive the three-dose diphtheria
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will discuss five exhibits and how it has changed health care. Vaccine Vaccine has played a huge role in human history. Dr. Edward Jenner, introduced the first vaccination in 1796 for small pox. In 1809 there was only the state of Massachusetts that mandated vaccination for small pox and other states followed. In 1879, the Anti-Vaccination Society of America stated that no one should be mandated to be vaccinated due to the vaccine causing corruption in the blood and also cause the spread of disease
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think that in the United States kids must be vaccinated before they enter Kindergarten? Kids need it, so they start fighting against diseases • 500 years ago, how many children died before the age 5 25% • How effective was Edward Jenner’s Vaccination. 500,000 cases to 0 worldwide. It was effective • Why do we vaccinate kids when they are so young? Protect them against diseases and prevent. • In the industrialized world, how many of the childhood epidemics still exist? 0 • Why didn’t
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history including antigen name and date administered. Below is an example of categories of data that should be on the immunization registry database. Patient Data Vaccination Information Being as though the immunization registry helps to remind both health care providers as well as patients of upcoming and missed vaccinations, a communication plan should be in place to ensure effectiveness. The parents should make sure that personal information, including address, phone number, and insurance
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as two hours (“Measles (Rubeola) Topic-Overview,” 2015). Therefore, an individual who may have had zero contact with an infected person may still contract the disease from that person by simply crossing paths. Obsolete to Outbreak-Health and Vaccination Trends After Rubeola vaccine became available in the U.S. in 1963, reported cases of the measles plummeted, with any reported case being considered extremely rare today. Individuals born before 1957 were at a very high risk of contracting the
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