2004-2005 U.S. Influenza Vaccine Shortage Influenza‚ or the flu‚ causes approximately 36‚000 deaths and 200‚000 hospitalizations annually in the United States and costs the American economy between $11 and $18 billion each year (General Accounting Office 2001b‚ page 1). The primary method for preventing influenza is the flu vaccine‚ which is generally available in a variety of settings including clinics‚ hospitals‚ schools‚ workplaces‚ and other convenient locations. The vaccine is typically distributed
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modern world‚ flu vaccines become available. Still‚ there are concerns about the quality of these vaccines. The cases when the temperature rises after a vaccination or the site of a prick is swollen are not uncommon. Flu vaccination is not capable of protecting the body from the flu entirely and can even present a serious danger for human’s health.
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Side effects of the MMR vaccine MMR contains three separate vaccines in one injection. Each vaccine can have different side effects that happen at different times: • About one week to 10 days after the MMR injection‚ some children get a very mild form of measles. This includes a rash‚ high temperature‚ loss of appetite and general feeling of being unwell for about two or three days. • About three to four weeks after the MMR injection‚ one in 50 children develops a mild form of mumps. This includes
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Rosario Y. Lopez Mrs. Walker ENG. 1301 November 02‚ 2012 Summary #1: HPV Vaccine Texas Tyranny Mike Adams essay‚ “HPV Vaccine Texas Tyranny”‚ demonstrates that the order made by Rick Perry‚ bypassing all the legislatures‚ to mandate the vaccination of young girls with the HPV vaccine sold by Merck‚ one of his contributors in his campaign‚ is absolutely worthless and an outright fraud.(445-447) Adams assumes that reality of all this situation is the push of profits. Adams starts to support
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Cheryl Jones (2011‚ pp. 8-9) in The Australian‚ wrote an article titled ‘nanopatches for improved vaccines.’ This article is about the development of a patch in lieu of current vaccine methods‚ to improve vaccine delivery. Statistics showed a high incidence of deaths in developing countries from infectious diseases like influenza‚ which are generally considered preventable in the developed world. Mark Kendall‚ a biomedical engineer‚ was shocked that even with specific vaccinations available
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THE POLIO VACCINE Amber Metoxen In 1952‚ The Polio epidemic happened‚ each of the 48 states at the time had rampant cases of Polio. The un-curable disease had taken over America. Poliomyelitis is an infectious viral disease that attacks the nerve cells and sometimes the central nervous system; it is caused by the destruction of nerve cells in the spinal cord. Polio often causes muscle wasting‚ paralysis‚ and even death.1 In surveys of what Americans feared most‚ Polio came in second to the
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I would like to inform you that Chris will not be attending the next week of school. Chris has been showing signs of a fever and yesterday he had blisters all over his face‚ turns out he has chickenpox. But this isn’t the chickenpox we grew up with‚ this is a new‚ stronger strain known as breakthrough varicella. It is just as contagious as the chickenpox we experienced when we were children and it has the strength to overcome our children’s vaccinations. Over the past years many parents have decided
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child access to the MMR vaccine‚ the lack of which happened to be the root cause in the case leaving three infants deceased? This paper will aim to justify that it is ethically not permissible for a guardian to refuse the MMR vaccine for their child‚ as it not only poses a risk for the child alone but also for all susceptible children in the community. This justification will be reinforced using two ethical theories that nullify the refusal of administration of the vaccine by a guardian‚ the first
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often vaccines target easily treatable diseases‚ making them dangerous and unnecessary. Side effects can range from a headache or cough to severe allergic reactions‚ seizures‚ and brain damage. There have been cases reported and lawsuits filed because of the death of children‚ caused by a vaccine they received. Most people just have a sore spot where they received the shot after getting vaccinated. But there is no denying the serious risks of these injections. Almost all vaccines have
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She concluded that the overall effectiveness of the HPV vaccine was high. Professor Lynette Denny says that parents should take their children for the HPV vaccine because it makes them so much less likely to develop cervical cancer and the other HPV related cancers. She stressed the fact that it increases boys herd immunity (an indirect form of protection from
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