Measles According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control)‚ measles is an airborne disease that is spread through respiration (contact with fluids from an infected person’s nose and mouth‚ either directly or through aerosol transmission (coughing or sneezing)‚ and is highly contagious. Measles is caused by the measles virus‚ a single-stranded‚ negative-sense‚ enveloped RNA virus of the genus Morbillivirus within the family Paramyxoviridae. The classic signs and symptoms of of measles include four-days
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example‚ the Gardasil vaccination. Merck‚ the company behind Gardasil‚ is pushing Gardasil to be a mandatory vaccination. “Experts predict that Gardasil sales could net Merck between $1.6 and $2 billion dollars annually (Smith‚ 2006). Making the vaccine mandatory‚ which requires injecting three doses per individual at a price of approximately $360 per dose‚ could increase those projected profits.” (301) Karin Gross and colleges the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute‚ do not support mandatory
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Small Pox Small pox‚ which was once the most feared disease known by mankind started out in the days of Christopher Columbus. The disease set out to change the lives of the people in the worse way. It became known as an epidemic disease that ended up killing hundreds of people. Small pox started out in Hispaniola and because of no cure‚ it traveled to the island of Puerto Rico‚ and then Cuba. It was only a matter of time until it spread to the mainland‚ somewhere in America. In the Middle
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permission to research this new finding. The mangers for the company noticed that it would take enormous amount of funding and time to develop this new vaccine. This new product could be really hard to market and who was going to actually buy it; it could also damaged the market share that Merck currently had by selling the animal version of the vaccine Ivermectin. Despite all of this‚ Dr. P. Roy Vagelos chairman of Merck and Company and his fellow managers approved the necessary funding for the
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EASTERN EQUINE ENCEPLALITIS Before researching for this paper‚ I had never heard of this disease. Eastern equine encephalitis is a disease that affects mostly horses. It however can affect humans‚ leading to very serious complications. According to Center of disease control and prevention (CDC)‚ (2004-2013) EEE is most prevalent in areas that are swampy and wet. An environment that will encourage breeding of mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are the primary means that humans get this serious
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complex and typically it is unclear which genes are responsible.[2] In rare cases‚ autism is strongly associated with agents that cause birth defects.[3] Many other causes have been proposed‚ such as exposure of children to vaccines; these proposals are controversial and the vaccine hypotheses have no convincing scientific evidence.[4] Autism is a condition involving abnormalities of brain development and behavior which manifests itself before a child is three years old and has a steady course with
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Outline for a speech I. Introduction A. Introduce the speakers and build up to the case B. Capture audience’s attention with a discussion of the benefits of increasing immunisation rates. (1) Vaccines prevent more than 6 million deaths per year (2) Vaccines contribute to the extension in life expectancy. (3) Promotes equity and even world peace. (4) Complete eradication of infectious agents. C. Summarise the main idea of the speech. Quickly state three main points 1. First Main Point – Influence
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deaths before it was controlled by quarantine. It is a respiratory virus which causes brain infection (encephalitis); many of the movie’s symptoms were accurate (fever‚ headache‚ vomiting‚ muscle aches‚ trouble breathing‚ coma‚ and death). There is no vaccine and currently no effective treatment. Though the Nipah outbreak may have influenced the script writers‚ the course of the fictional pandemic in Contagion more closely resembles that of another real-life emerging infectious disease: severe acute respiratory
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children immunizations‚ and in the majority of amish communities‚ autism is nearly nonexistent. Immunization is a process by which a person is made immune to an infectious disease typically by the use of a vaccine. This sounds like a good thing‚ right? Well there is a chance that these vaccines could be leading to forms of mental retardation‚ neurological problems‚ and other dangerous conditions‚ such as premature ovarian failure. A lot of the time‚ these are said to be myths‚ but there are facts
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wanted to work with the smallpox virus because he wanted to be in efforts to create a national stockpile. He could not believe that the vaccine was not enough for a bioterror attack on the United States. He wanted to find a cure for the disease. 2. In April‚ the Institute of Medicine issued a report saying that if the world wanted to have a new vaccine or an antiviral drug for smallpox then the virus would need to be kept for scientific experiments. President Bill Clinton had personally
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