distinguished clearly between active/ passive‚ natural/artificial immunity and described some methods of vaccine production. I have critically compared the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccination programme with programmes aimed at control of measles‚ polio‚ influenza‚ malaria and cholera. Introduction (Immune System‚ 2012) “The immune system is made up of a network of cells‚ tissues‚ and organs that work together to protect the body.” This means that the function of the immune system is to
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towards developing new‚ more effective vaccinations. So first off‚ if we mandate vaccination in children we present the opportunity to eliminate life threatening illnesses. For example‚ the global eradication of polio is a public health effort to eliminate all cases of poliomyelitis (polio)
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Polio‚ poliomyelitis‚ is a deadly infectious paralytic disease caused by the poliovirus. Transmission of this disease is from person to person and very contagious with the ability to infect the brain and spinal cord causing paralysis. Most common routes of transmission are direct person to person contact‚ contact with infected mucus or phlegm from the nose or mouth such as droplets from a sneeze or cough or contact with infected feces. The individual is contagious immediately before symptoms present
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taken many steps to develop rural India and for this Department of Rural Development has been setup under the control of Ministry of Rural Development. The department through PRIs has launched various development schemes such as Sampoorna Swachchta Abhiyan‚ Gram Vikas Yojna‚ Farmer Market & Livestock Market‚ Underground Drainage System Construction Scheme and so on. Through these schemes Government of India seems to accomplish its dream of rural India’s development. Although some loopholes may also
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skeptics. The idea of vaccines started many years ago and since then have all but eradicated many diseases like small pox and polio‚ but some people believe in not vaccinating which allows these children to get the disease and spread it further to other people. With vaccines we can eliminate diseases‚ they’re safe and effective‚ and even save money. In the early to mid-1900s polio was a disease that was widespread and left many people crippled‚ today modern generations barely know the name and even less
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Their cases may be rare‚ but when they occur news coverage will swarm over the case. Without vaccination a disease such as polio can spread through a simple sneeze. The United States has been polio free for a while‚ yet “It would only take one traveler with polio from another country to bring polio back to the United States” (“Polio and the Vaccine” 1). Many diseases in the United States that are quite dangerous are preventable through childhood vaccinations. These can sometimes
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Medical Research With or Without Informed Consent In 1952‚ paralytic polio peaked in the United States with 21‚000 reported cases and numerous deaths. It was in February 1952; Jonas Salk developed the world’s first polio vaccine at the University of Pittsburgh and by testing it on cultured “HeLa” cells‚ proved it to be effective for distribution by 1955. The cells he used were collected from a poor black tobacco farmer named Henrietta Lacks‚ born August 1st‚ 1920 in Roanoke Virginia. In January
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YEAR 9 RESEARCH TASK: FIGHTING DISEASE 1. Suggest three ways in which foreign particles could enter the inside of your body Breathing in particles‚ cuts & wounds and through your mouth. 2. Imagine you are a microbe attacking the human body. Write a paragraph about your Invasion of the blood Stream. How did you arrive there? What line of defence did you in encounter? As I was floating through the air‚ I got breathed in to the nose. There I was brushing past some filter hairs located in the nostrils
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15% to 30% percent of adults die. The polio virus can be easily spread from person to person through the infected matter entering the mouth. It can also be spread by food or water from the infected person to another. Poliomyelitis is also contagious after the infected has no symptoms as the virus is still present in the body. This illness can only be treated by the polio vaccine; therefore‚ it is extremely required for an infected individual to get the polio vaccine. It is also important to vaccinate
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Polio‚ a disease that attacks the nervous system and can potentially cripple its subject‚ affected humanity throughout history. However‚ the first major polio outbreak in America occurred in Vermont‚ during the summer of 1894‚ which lead to thousands being affected by the 20th century in the United States. The disease mainly affected children‚ but one of the most notable adult figures in American history stricken with polio was President Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ who was diagnosed with polio at age
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