vaccinations have been used to treat disease and viruses from as early as 1000 AD when the ancient Chinese‚ African and Turkish first started using inoculated technique. Edward Jenner‚ an English physician and scientist‚ created the first smallpox vaccine using a similar disease‚ cowpox‚ which infects cows‚ and is credited for being the influence for the practice of vaccination in the present. For over 200 years Jenner’s innovation was used and updated; as a result‚ the smallpox disease was eradicated
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NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF UNDER FIVE CHILDREN AT RISK OF MALARIA IN MAKOKO‚ LAGOS STATE. BY PATRICK ARIJE INTRODUCTION Background of Study Malaria is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the developing world. Malaria kills more than 800‚000 people annually‚ of which 91% of them reside in Africa and 85% of them are under five children (WHO‚2008).The greatest impact occur in sub-saharan Africa (including Nigeria)‚ particularly in children (Snow et al 1999). Under nutrition is the underlying
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Section One: Jenny McCarthy (301 words) One of the main characters‚ Jenny McCarthy‚ is a celebrity and anti-vaccine activist in Paul A. Offit’s book that can be directly connected to the field of public health. This character serves to describe the kind of social and behavioral activities involved in the influencing of public hysteria surrounding the anti-vaccine movement. Jenny McCarthy‚ a well-known Chicago native‚ was born on November 1‚ 1972. She attended college to study nursing at Southern
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community from vaccines to proper shelter. Typically the organizations that provide these resources are not in it for a profit‚ but to just provide the materials.Through perseverance the organizations will go through obstacles in order to achieve their goal. The Influenza vaccine is not just a formula that can be created overnight‚ it takes six to eight months to produce the vaccine‚ and the formula needs to be changed annually. The viral strain is incompatible with previous vaccines‚ and make them
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The Truth about the HPV Vaccine Melody Tripp EN 200A College Composition Craig CasterlineWarner Pacific College October 7‚ 2014 Abstract Being a parent of a preteen is a hard adventure all by itself. When you go into a pediatric office for an 11-year-well-child-checkup‚ there are many vaccinations that are now required for children entering middle schools. One of the vaccinations in this series is optional. This vaccination is to protect our children against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
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your baby gets his all doses of his whooping cough vaccine. Pregnant Women need a Whooping cough vaccine. Make sure to get the Tdap shot to protect yourself and your baby. After you get the shot‚ your body will create protective antibodies and pass some of them to your
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Vaccines can be something that completely change the future in a way that is beneficial to the world. Some children are too young to be able to be shielded by vaccination and some are not able to vaccinate because of diseases and allergies. Although it is very important that other kids vaccinate and are fully immunized. With this‚ it protects others from the spread of the disease ("Five Important Reasons to Vaccinate Your Child." Vaccines.gov‚). The biggest argument keeping vaccines super important
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Background of the Case The Centers for Disease Control issued a recommendation on June 29‚ 2006 that a new vaccine for the human papillomavirus be given to girls around the age of eleven to twelve to prevent this disease that was affecting nearly half of the United States population. The HPV vaccination was said to be most effective before there was any sexual activity with the girl‚ and that it would prevent about 75 percent of the 27‚900 cases of cervical‚ vulvar‚ vaginal‚ anal‚ penile‚ and head
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Vaccines‚ they have a huge impact on our lives today. Several generations have grown up with vaccines. Vaccines may seem like a very positive and helpful tool‚ but don’t always judge a book by its cover. However some people have negative effects that include skin burns‚ seizures deaths‚ mild fevers‚ over distributing and autism. Skin Burns A burn is a type of injury to the skin‚ or other tissues‚ caused by heat‚ cold‚ electricity‚ chemicals‚ friction‚ or radiation. Sounds painful? It is‚ and
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April 2011 HPV Vaccine: Choose or Forced If there was a vaccine to prevent a virus that could lead to a deadly form of cancer would you want it? Of course you would. The human papillomavirus vaccine also known as HPV vaccine does just that. In the two essays on public health‚ “HPV Vaccine Texas Tyranny”‚ by Mike Adams and “The HPV Debate Needs an Injection of Reality‚” by Arthur Allen‚ these two authors discuss their different opinions on the human papillomavirus vaccine. In the essay‚
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