Smallpox is a highly infectious disease caused by the variola virus‚ an orthopoxvirus. Humans are the only known reservoir of this virus‚ thus no known animal or insect reservoirs have been identified. As routine vaccination is no longer undertaken‚ exposure to variola virus has the potential to cause high rates of morbidity and mortality in human population. Following an incubation period‚ infected individuals manifest with prodromal symptoms that include high fever‚ malaise‚ back pain and prostration
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Running head: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES Advantages and Disadvantages of the HPV Vaccine in Adolescent Girls: An Ethical Case Study Drexel University Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are a group of more than 40 types of viruses that infect the genital areas‚ throats (recurrent respiratory papillomatosis)‚ and mouths of males and females and is the number one most common sexually transmitted disease (Center for Disease Control and Prevention
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Cited: Galilei‚ Galileo. Siderius Nuncius. Trans. Albert Van Helden. Chicago: University of Chicago‚ 1989. Print. Jenner‚ Edward. Vaccination against Smallpox. Amherst‚ NY: Prometheus‚ 1996. Print.
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growing throughout the world. Many medical happenings were present as well. Smallpox was the main widespread disease that affected the whole world. Inventions and discoveries were made to solve problems or mysteries. An important person was Edward Jenner‚ who “discovered” a smallpox vaccination. He did not actually invent it‚ because it had already existed. She ran an experiment on an eight year old boy to test the smallpox vaccine. He did this by giving him cowpox first which served as a immunization
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Family Background Jonas Salk’s parents names were‚ Daniel and Dora Salk. Daniel was Jonas’s father and Dora was Jonas’s mother. Dora was born in 1890‚ it didn’t say a date on any of the sites I went on. Daniel was born in 1890 too‚ it also didn’t say anything about a date on the sites I went on. Dora died in 1964 at the age of‚ 74. Daniel died in 1958 at the age of‚ 68. Dora Salk didn’t do anything for a living. Daniel Salk was a clothing
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The Expanded Program on Immunization is a World Health Organization program with the goal to make vaccines available to all children throughout the world. The 7 immunizable diseases: * Tuberculosis * Diphtheria * Pertussis * Measles * Poliomyelitis * Tetanus * Hepatitis B Target Setting: * Infants 0-12 months * Pregnant and Post Partum Women * School Entrants/ Grade 1 / 7 years old Elements of EPI: * Information‚ Education and Communication (IEC)
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The Jenner Trial "The smallpox was always present‚ filling the churchyards with corpses‚ tormenting with constant fears all whom it had stricken‚ leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power‚ turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered‚ and making the eyes and cheeks of the bighearted maiden objects of horror to the lover" (Macaulay). Imagine walking down the busiest street in 1700s London‚ and you only saw a dozen people. In every window‚ bodies
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terrorist attacks after 9/11 and how smallpox might become a future bioterrorist threat to the world. The book provides a brief history of the smallpox disease including details of an outbreak in Germany in 1970. The disease was eradicated in 1979 due to the World Health Organization’s aggressive vaccine program. After the virus was no longer a treat the World Health Organization discontinued recommending the smallpox vaccination. In conjunction‚ inventory of the vaccine was decreased to save money.
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CHAPTER 6 Smallpox: A Primer Brenda J. McEleney Smallpox‚ is a virus that plagued humanity for millennia. It was the first and only disease ever intentionally eradicated from the face of this planet‚ a scourge defeated in a remarkable‚ never-before-attempted campaign of generosity and cooperation by the nations of the world. Its eradication was a triumphant symbol of science and dogged persistence winning over nature. Moreover‚ its eradication was a gift of man to all mankind. Yet‚ is it possible
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world’s most lethal emerging viruses‚ has ORCON security clearance that gives him access to top secret information on bioweapons. His most urgent priority is to develop a drug that will take on smallpox--and win. Eradicated from the planet in 1979 in one of the great triumphs of modern science‚ the smallpox virus now resides‚ officially‚ in only two high-security freezers--at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and in Siberia‚ at a Russian virology institute called Vector. But the demon in
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