The MMR vaccine is used to prevent Measles‚ Rubella and mumps. These desieses first had separate vaccines available before they were intergrated into one vaccine. The vaccine for measles has been around since 1963. Vaccines for Mumps and Rubella have been around since 1967 and 1969‚ respectively. The three vaccines became intergrated into one in 1971. The first MMR vaccine jab is given to a baby usually at 12-15 months old and the booster injection is given to the baby at usually at 4-6 years old
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Vaccines – A Modern Safety Net (second draft) Seeing that milkmaids‚ who dealt with cows on a daily basis‚ did not contract the rampant‚ and fatal smallpox disease‚ Edward Jenner set out to understand how this could be. Out of scientific curiosity‚ he took some fluid from a cowpox blister and inserted it into an eight-year-old little boy. He then exposed the little boy to the small pox disease a few days later. By exposing the little boy to a less fatal strain of the virus‚ the boy did not contract
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“Vaccines are the most cost-effective healthcare interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life‚ but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare” (Ezekiel Emanuel). Immunizations have revolutionized the world of science ever since they were first discovered. They now are fundamental to people’s survival. The first hope to a vaccine was created by Edward Jenner in 1796. Edward Jenner was the first to give a chance to those living with viral infectious
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Vaccines help your body fight against a virus by injecting tiny amounts of the killed or weakened organism into a person arm so they develop immunity. They are a safe and effective way to keep your child from getting sick. In today’s society‚ many parents still refuse to get their children vaccinated. Parents fear that these vaccines contain harmful substances such as thimerosal‚ formaldehyde and aluminum. Furthermore‚ parents have the right to fear these harmful substances‚ but they are only considered
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been reported lately that swine flu cases has occurred in Malaysia. Thus‚ I feel it is essential for me to give a speech on topic ‘Steps to Prevent the Widespread of Swine Flu in Malaysia’. 3.0 Objective The objectives of delivering a speech on the above-mentioned topic are as outlines below:- 3.1 To create awareness I hope that by selecting this topic‚ it will create awareness to all the audiences that Swine Flu had been reported in Malaysia. As this flu is a contagious disease‚ there are
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Many have argued that vaccines can be unsafe for your health‚ while others say it is important for a 6-month old to endure 7 shots in 3 months. While this is the case for some‚ others claim to have religious or physiological reasons for objecting these vaccinations. While some of these are not proven‚ it is important to honor people’s religious freedoms and ideals on any topics‚ even this one. People have full control over the health of their children and if they have objections they should be able
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Health Department to address health issues that arises. The opposition to the bill uses the argument that vaccines have detrimental side effects and that “people should have the right to make their own health decisions” (Riker). Local resident Renee Kawelo opposed the bill and vaccines because she believes that they will make her children sick. The most notable side effect that people think vaccines causes is autism‚ “which scientific research has debunked” (Riker)‚
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Most people know‚ on a basic level‚ what vaccines are. However‚ do they actually know what a vaccine can do? Vaccines are the insertion of dead or weakened pathogens into the body. The immune system uses the pathogens to create immune cells that kill the disease-causing pathogens when they attack in the future. Receiving a vaccine for disease will cause the person to be actively immune‚ protects the person and their loved ones‚ and can assist in wiping out a communicable disease altogether.
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prevent getting diseases. Many of us think vaccines cause autism‚ but researchers say‚ it does not give you autism. Vaccines are important to get because if they were not‚ then why would Disneyland be closed because people spread the virus‚ which was measles. Also‚ adults need to ask their doctors which one is needed because many people are dying from diseases and are not aware of what vaccine is needed at what age. Some background information that vaccines are important to get because “influenza kills
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Government Department of Health‚ 2013). It was Edward Jenner who developed the first vaccine in 1976 against small pox. Centuries later the next vaccine was developed by Louis Pasteur. This was the anti-rabies vaccine (Lombard‚ Pastoret‚ & Moulin‚ 2007). It was these two men who gave hope to other scientist for the development and prevention of other infectious diseases for years to come. There are many different types of vaccines available in Australia today. Currently‚ the ‘Immunise Australian Program’ offers
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