visit‚ the two exhibits I found the most interesting were "Where Children Sleep: Photographs by James Mollison" and the Iron Lung. Both of these exhibits caught my attention and I learned a lot from the tour guide‚ especially about the iron lung and polio. The “Where Children Sleep” exhibit was very enlightening and it was fascinating to see how different children live across the united states and the world. In the photos that I took pictures of‚ there was a young boy form Italy and a young boy from
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on our immune systems. People with weak immune systems would tend to live shorter lives and may never truly get to live life to the fullest. Without vaccines we may still be fighting disease that have long since disappeared from our history such as polio and the small pox. That is why vaccines were created in order to give people the choice to prevent some life threatening vaccines. A vaccine is a product that is created in order to form an immunity from specific diseases and is administered through
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1. Henry Ford – Mass Production of Automobiles: Henry Ford created the assembly line‚ something that factories use to this day to speed up the process of crafting something and also invented and produced in heavy volume automobiles to the common American household. Without the ability of creating these vehicles in a fast amount of time‚ they would have been much more expensive‚ making them even more of luxury items that the average American wouldn’t be able to afford‚ but because he came up with
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fight for civil rights is in Joseph Shapiro’s book‚ No Pity-People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement and I am looking at chapter 2. In this chapter Shapiro told a story about Ed Roberts‚ who caught a polio virus and he fought for civil rights for a long time. The polio virus paralyzed his muscles that controlled his lungs and in a while he would not be able to breathe on his own‚ and would have to get surgery. Since‚ he was could not be able to breathe on his own‚ he was not able to
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The history of the March of Dimes: a. In 1938‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s personal struggle with polio lead him to create the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Now known as the March of Dimes‚ the foundation established a polio patient aid program and funded research for vaccines‚ which effectively ended epidemic polio in the United States. b. With the goal of eliminating polio accomplished‚ in 1958 Basil O’Connor‚ the president of the March of Dimes at the time‚ turned the focus
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Vaccinations for the Generations Every day‚ people come in contact with diseases. Opening a door‚ shaking hands‚ kissing‚ purchasing and consuming food‚ all require touch and involve the exchange of bacteria. Prior to inoculating people with a weakened version of diseases‚ the mortality rate was much higher‚ especially among infants. Vaccines are administered to protect the masses from diseases and outbreaks that can spread through these exchanges‚ such as bubonic plague. Despite staggering evidence
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WebQuests: Infectious and Non-infectious Disease Disease Causative Organism Common Cold rhinoviruse s Influenza (Flu) type A‚ B ‚ C‚&D Strep Throat Chickenpox Mumps streptoocu s herpesciru s or zoster virus parotits Symptoms Treatment Mode of Transmission runny or stuffy nose‚ itchy or sore throat‚ ough‚ congestion ‚ slight body aches or mild a 10 headaches degree ‚ferenheit sneezing‚ watery fever or eyes‚ feeling low-grade feverish‚ fever‚ aouh‚ mild a fatigue‚ sore throat‚ high fever
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One so these achievements is almost eradicating the disease polio. “For more than a quarter of a century a group of a few hundred experts based in Switzerland has been masterminding the most complex medical campaign of all time – to eradicate polio‚ the nerve-destroying virus that has caused death and disability on a terrifying scale.” From this quote you can understand the pressure the swish doctors and
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medical conditions(2facts.com). Without animal testing causes and treatments to thousands of medical conditions would not be known. We would still live with polio if it wasn’t for animal testing. Animal testing helped find the cures for polio‚ small pox‚ rabies‚ etc(2facts.com). If it wasn’t for the monkey that was first injected with the polio disease the may never have been discovered. The injection was proven safe so it was used to save millions of lives. If we ever want to find cures for major
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Vaccinations have served as an essential component in our medical system for years. Why now are parents refusing to vaccinate their children in the mindset that this decision is actually protecting their child? Based on Susan Ellenberg and Robert T Chen’s article‚ “The Complicated Task of Monitoring Vaccine Safety‚” published by Public Health Reports in 1997 this refusal is due to the scientific evidence that links harmful and life threatening side effects with vaccines. Although‚ controversially
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