Outbreaks.") Whooping cough (pertussis) is highly contagious and is easily passed to infants. About half of infants who get pertussis are hospitalized. If someone is around infants younger than 12 months‚ or are pregnant it is strongly advised to get this vaccine. Infected adults can infect infants and will cause them to have a high risk of death from whooping cough. Getting vaccinated helps protect infants and others from catching whooping cough. (Pertussis Whooping Cough) Vaccinations save lives
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suspected case of SARS or for any unusual respiratory Illness. Initial symptoms would be a fever of 38.0° Celsius‚ headache‚ discomfort‚ body aches‚ mild respiratory symptoms‚ and possibly some diarrhea. After 7 to 10 days symptoms would include a dry cough‚ shortness of breath‚ and pneumonia. To have contracted SARS a person would’ve had to travel to a SARS affected area or have had close contact with a person infected with SARS within the last 10 days. The incubation period after being exposed is
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Aim: The objective of the ECCE programme is to make early learning in a formal setting available to eligible children in the year before they commence primary school. To achieve this‚ services participating in the pre-school year are required to provide age-appropriate activities and programmes to children within a particular age group. Well-being - a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous Aistear: Aistear is the early childhood curriculum framework for all children from
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Hi‚ I don’t want to exhaust you with things about me because well… everybody skips that part. But I assure you‚ this the very exact reason why I’m writing this letter. As a kid‚ I never liked reading. Fiction‚ or nonfiction—I never could visualize a picture in my head. People tell me to read more to improve this mindset; that’s sort of a paradox for me‚ how can a kid improve imagination by reading a book where he can’t picture anything? I guess I understanded a few books‚ but it’s minute compared
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Yes or No to Mandatory Vaccinations Should vaccinations be mandatory for children entering school? At the present time‚ all fifty states in the United States require children entering public school to be vaccinated. However‚ no federal vaccination laws exist (ProCon.org‚ Children Vaccinations‚ Did you know?). Many parents hold religious beliefs against vaccination. Forcing such parents to vaccinate their children would violate the First Amendment‚ which guarantees citizens the right to
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Thousands upon thousands of insults‚ is murder the right way to get back at someone? Monstressor believed the only way to get back at his “friend” Fortunato was to seek revenge and utimatley end his life‚ trapping him in the darkness of his catacombs. Edgar Allen Poe In his story‚ “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ Poe uniquley uses first person point of view‚ setting and imagery through writing style. Poe’s use of first person point of view gave the audience an insight on Montresor’s perspective‚ unreliability
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have the flu.’ Explaining your problem Look at these two forms we can use to talk about our health problems: ’I have been coughing a lot these days / recently / for the last few days / since yesterday.’ (PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS) ’I have a cough.’ (PRESENT SIMPLE) Both of these are used to describe our health problems. The present perfect continuous is used to show that something started in the past and is still happening now. We use ’I have been + -ing verb.’ Other examples of this form
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Chronic bronchitis is “a productive cough that lasts at least three months for two consecutive years” (Mayo Clinic Staff‚ 2011). The bronchiole tubes become inflamed and enlarged narrowing the airways which will result in pulmonary hypertension. The air passage way can become blocked because of increased mucus production caused by enlarged mucus glands ("Chronic Bronchitis"‚ n.d.). The cells that help the mucus move out of the body can become damaged reducing the ability to clear mucus from the air
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can start out like a normal flu‚ with coughing being the number one symptom. After a while‚ the virus attacks the lungs with more vehemence‚ causing internal bleeding. This internal bleeding is visible when the infected coughs. If left untreated‚ the infected will literally cough themselves to death. Today I will talk about the history of Tuberculosis in the United States. During my speech I will discuss Consumption in the early 19th century‚ the physician Edward Trudeau‚ and the containing of the
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Effects of Smoking According to the Clinical Respiratory Journal an average of five million people will die globally every year from effects of tobacco smoke. The number of people that dies is shocking. Smoking has many terrible effects on the human body from effecting the lungs‚ heart‚ and even causes cancer if you did not know that already. Why do people smoke? Some people might ask. Well there is nicotine in tobacco which causes your muscles to relax and thus causing that relaxing non stressful
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