The measles‚ mumps‚ and rubella (MMR) vaccine is used to immunize children against diseases that can cause major disabilities and fatal illnesses. In 1994‚ the vaccine was mandated for all school children and since then a spike has been seen in the diagnosis of autism. Many of those diagnosis falls within a few months of the MMR vaccine and in 1998‚ Andrew Wakefield published a study indicating a relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism (Rudy‚ 2009). Intense media coverage followed and many
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diseases and I will focus more on the topic about Ebola‚ the deadliest disease known to man. The Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe‚ often fatal illness to humans. The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission. The average EVD case fatality rate is around 50%. Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks. The time interval from infection with the virus to the onset of symptoms is 2 to 21 days. Humans
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use of Livni cells and cell materials to produce pharmaceuticals to prevent diseases. Vaccines are the best defense we as humans have agains diseases. Like any other medical products theyvhavebtheir side effects. Vaccines occur when a less harmful ‚inactive form of that pathogen is injected into th human body so that the body may be able to gain acquired immunity. So thatbwhwn the body is attacked with the same virus it is able to fight t off. Onfections are then most common type of disease. Pathogens
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With the Ebola outbreak in late 2014‚ I started to think about ways to prevent sickness and diseases. I have seen many claims of natural treatments for everything from the common flu to cancer and even HIV‚ but are any of them real? An article posted on NaturalNews states that shipments of nonosilver were used in the treatment of Ebola in West Africa‚ but what is nonosilver? A declassified document from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) (declassified in 2009) shown that antimicrobial silver solutions
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about three Percent of the world’s population carries the hepatitis virus. Viruses reproduce with the help of the host cell‚ they don’t contain ribosomes‚ cytoplasm and membrane-surrounded organelles. Hepatitis is caused by infected blood‚ similar to the HIV virus. There are at least six different hepatitis viruses: A‚ B‚ C‚ D‚ E‚ F. However‚ I am going to focus mainly on the most common types (A‚ B and C). Type C is the riskiest virus. It leads to liver cirrhosis‚ liver cancer and liver failure. On
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Ebola in Sub-Sahara Africa Source: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxgsy8RUj31r98we1o1_500.jpg History of Ebola • Ebola is a virus‚ also called Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever • Named after a river in the Democractic Republic of the Congo‚ formerly known as Zaire‚ in Africa‚ where it was first recognized in 1976. • It belongs to a family of RNA viruses called Filoviridae • Four identified subtypes in Africa: Zaire‚ Sudan‚ Ivory Coast and Bundibugyo‚ each named after the region in which they occurred
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Vaccines are mixtures made to grant immunity to diseases. They usually have the disease in them either dead or weakened. Vaccines are widely known to be the best way to protect you from a disease. There has been some diseases that were completely wiped out‚ for example smallpox‚ just from everyone getting a vaccine. They work by triggering the immune system to attack the virus in the vaccine so the body can recognize it and know to attack it when infected with the real virus. Vaccines were invented
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epidemic will have ended. This was the case with the epidemic of Ebola as the epidemic ended an effective vaccine was produce at the epidemic’s end. This is an scientific issue because when facing the unknown time will be a limited resource we need to improve how humanity can research possible vaccines quickly. If a vaccines take approximately a year to make them for actual use then a year’s worth of lives are lost. We need
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A person can spread the hepatitis A virus if their feces come into contact with someone else‚ since the virus lives and can be found in the infecteds stool/feces. This is why the hepatitis A virus is mainly transmitted through contaminated food‚ water‚ sanitation‚ or even lack of personal hygiene. If a person consumes contaminated food or comes into contact with the virus‚ the person will then begin to receive the disease and ultimately become infected
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1. Do you agree with the author that nurses were portrayed as the villain during the Ebola crisis? I agree with Linda McGillis and Jordana Kashin in thinking that nurses were portrayed as villains spreading the Ebola virus to the public. I know I was guilty of this view point. I think the news media played a big role‚ because they did not present the full picture of how the Ebola precautionary guidelines varied among organizations. But I feel like Nina Pham was specifically praised for how she handled
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