Questions posed by Paul Basch are very thought provoking. Some of these questions require a lot of consideration and research. Taking this course has helped me answer them to the best of my knowledge and provided me with a different perspective of global health. I would have responded to these questions the same before taking this course but my concepts have become stronger. Following are my responses to 5 questions. 3. When are we justified in conducting drug or vaccine trials in developing countries
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There was a time in the United States that mumps was a rather common disease. In the time before a vaccine was developed to help prevent the disease‚ there were hundreds of thousands of cases reported every year. Mumps is a contagious disease caused by the paramyxovirus which is part of the Rubulavirus family. According to the CDC‚ the virus has an average incubation period of about sixteen to eighteen days (CDC‚ 2016). Some people that get the mumps show either very mild or no symptoms and are not
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Humanity is in a constant battle with Mother Nature herself as we must always defend ourselves from the diseases that Mother Nature produces. Many epidemics appear throughout human history and lives are lost because we One of the barriers is establishing human safety and immunogenicity within a shorter amount of time then the current amount of time. The problem with this is by the time the test is complete and is safe the epidemic will have ended. This was the case with the epidemic of Ebola
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Childhood Vaccinations “If my kid can’t bring peanut butter to school‚ yours shouldn’t be able to bring preventable diseases.” A statement by a parent to other parents who chose not to vaccinate their child. Although this statement may be a bit extreme it breathes life into a very important topic about vaccinating children. Parents should be for vaccinating their child because they prevent deadly communicable disease and can save their child’s life; and the life of others. The consequences of disease
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I believe that everyone should be up to date on vaccinations. One reason I believe everyone should be vaccinated is because others do not get sick. Another reason is that the person who is not vaccinated doesn’t get sick and having to go to the hospital. One more reason why people should be vaccinated is because they should be able to go to school and not be kicked out because they don’t have their vaccines. Everyone’s vaccines should be up to date so then other people around them do not get sick
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We always hear on the news and in the papers about children catching diseases and sicknesses and often dying from them. Why is all of this happening when these diseases can be easily prevented? Parents can easily go and get their children immunized. Some parents think it is healthier for their children. Is it really that much safer for children to not get immunized and what about all the other children they are around? Immunizations should be given to children because‚ it is healthier‚ it is safer
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I am writing to express my concerns about the number of people who are not being vaccinated in our state. In Pennsylvania‚ we have one of the worst vaccination/immunization rates in the United States with only 87% of the people being vaccinated correctly. Vaccines protect people from preventable‚ spreadable diseases by providing immunity to the disease the vaccination is for. However‚ we have read news about the outbreaks of diseases that we thought were gone in the United States‚ like recent
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When it comes to vaccinations‚ there are many different opinions on immunizing a child‚ especially when that child’s parent has a strong like or dislike towards vaccinating. Immunizations have been around for at least a thousand years and as technology advances more‚ there are new vaccines being designed to help protect our children from contracting contagious and sometimes deadly diseases‚ such as Bordetella pertussis‚ polio‚ and even influenza. For decades‚ all 50 states have required that parents
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According to Mayo Clinic‚ Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorders. Its symptoms include lack of communication‚ the inability to use language to interact‚ and certain repetitive behaviors. Jeffrey S. Gerber and Paul A. Offit in their work “Vaccines and Autism” studied whether autism can be caused by MMR vaccines‚ thimerosal preservative‚ or due to multiple vaccines. The researchers created three different hypothesis and collected its data from different countries worldwide. They concluded in their
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No concerning pattern was noted amongdeath[sic] reports submitted to VAERS during 1997-2013…. This means that over two thirds of deaths that occur after a vaccination has been administered is in children. Over half of those children were males. A little under half of those children died from sudden infant death syndrome. Over a sixteen year period of observations there were no concerning patterns found which means that‚ based on VAERS there is no reason anyone should be concerned about vaccinating
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