To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate Submitted To: Ms. Koprianuk Due: Friday May 24th‚ 2013 Vaccinations have been the solution to many problems involving the sickness all human beings‚ from early childhood until adulthood. By taking a dosage‚ according to many studies done by scientists and doctors‚ it allows the human body to become immune to many illnesses and diseases. It makes us immune to such diseases such as Meningitis C‚ HIV-AIDS etc… By doing so‚ if these viruses
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interest of children and everyone around them‚ vaccination is a great way of preventing and eliminating diseases. Diseases have been on the planet as long as people can remember. The Chinese used inoculation techniques as early as 1000 A.D. for smallpox (“Vaccines ProCon.org” 4). Though the Chinese were the first to come upon a form of vaccines‚ there were other countries who had their own forms of vaccines. Other inoculation
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ineffective and makes people sick and use that as justification to believe all vaccinations are unsafe. When really the flu has many strains and experts have to guess every year‚ which will be the major strain and vaccinate for that. While vaccinations for smallpox or polio have been proven to have eradicated or largely prevented the deaths of millions of
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not immune to bacteria/germs carried by the new people‚ whom were resistant to it because they had lived around cattle/farms making them immune to various diseases. One of the main diseases that nearly wiped out the Native American population was smallpox; it was a viral infection that entered the body through the nose/throat and cause blisters all over the body. This virus was highly contagious because it was able to
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Sakharov (1921 – 1989) Contemporary biologists… Ian Ramshaw and Ronald Jackson Eckard Wimmer Ron Fouchier and Yoshihiro Kawaoka Artificial mousepox virus Synthetic poliovirus Avian influenza virus Variola major the human smallpox virus mutant that reduced the neurological effects of the virus Four mutations in the viral haemagglutinin gene were needed to create a highly pathogenic virus Science “(…) such research should be done and published. (…) today’s technologies
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The Columbian Exchange was the importing and exporting of animals‚ plants‚ and diseases between the new world and the old world. Explorers from Eurasia were bringing their animals‚ plants‚ and diseases over to the new world as well as returning home with new items. There’s no doubt that the Columbian Exchange changed the world. Although more things were brought to the new world‚ I think the people from the old world benefitted the most. Many of the plants from the new world became stable crops when
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English Independent Studies Assignment 4 I believe that state mandated administration of childhood vaccinations is justified for the following reasons; First and foremost‚ mandating vaccinations in children provides the opportunity to eliminate certain illnesses. Second‚ mandating vaccinations lowers the risk in the illness spreading and multiplying. And third‚ vaccinations could be used to collect money which could then be used for things like research towards developing new‚ more effective
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Herd Immunity Vaccinations are a way to combat illness that have caused great harm in the past. Many different types and methods have been tested and used for almost a thousand years‚ from flu shots to Polio vaccines‚ it has protected people from contracting these viruses. Hundreds of thousands would be dead if it were not for this preventative care. However‚ many people choose to opt out of receiving this medical treatment by choosing to abide by other personal beliefs. All people should receive
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destruction of culture. When Europeans came to the new world they brought many diseases. The diseases brought to this continent by the Europeans included bubonic plague‚ chicken pox‚ pneumonic plague‚ cholera‚ diphtheria‚ influenza‚ measles‚ scarlet fever‚ smallpox‚ typhus‚ tuberculosis‚ and whooping cough. The diseases introduced in the Americas by the Europeans were crowd diseases: that is‚ individuals who have once contracted the disease and survived become immune to the
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Let’s say it is the future and your only child just turned three. You haven’t gotten your polio vaccines yet. Because why would you get one‚ they’re just a waste of time right? Soon enough your child contracts the sickness‚ and he falls very ill. You call a doctor after a few days of misery but he says there is nothing he can do‚ and that it is too late. Why would anybody want this terrible fate to happen to anyone‚ especially a child? We believe that vaccines should be mandatory in order to stop
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