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    Case Study Report for Unknown #49 A new school for girls was opened in a larger village in Northern Pakistan‚ and the teachers were proud to have convinced many families in the surrounding villages to allow their daughters a basic education. The school was a success‚ and the 6-10 year olds girls quickly learned how to read and write and were even instructed in the sciences. However‚ 2 weeks before summer break‚ many of the girls and the teacher developed breathing problems that included severe coughing

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    My topic is over vaccines in the United States and how we need them to keep our country healthy. My main points are the reasons we have them‚ the health benefits of the vaccines‚ and the safety concerns about when we don’t have routine vaccines. My first point is that there are reasons we have vaccines. Vaccines can keep you healthy‚ keep you from a life or death situation‚ the diseases that vaccines prevent are normally expensive to care for once you get them‚ anyone around you is at risk of getting

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     reaction to the  medication.    2. ​ In 2013‚ 94.8 percent of Delaware children ages 18 months to 35 months had at  least one dose of the measles vaccine‚ About 98.7 percent had at least three  doses of the diphtheria‚ tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough)‚ or DTaP‚ vaccine  and 92.3 percent had the chickenpox vaccine.    3.  ​ State vaccination shows that only 0.8 percent of school­age children are  exempted from vaccines because of religious beliefs and 0.1 percent are not  vaccinated due to medical reasons 

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    2002‚ spread to Taiwan‚ Canada‚ Singapore‚ Malaysia‚ Phillipines‚ Thailand‚ South Africa and The USA. It lasted until July 2003 and it affected about 8000 people. Symptoms * Fever Above 38 Degrees Celsius * Myalgia (Aching Muscles) * Cough‚ Diarrhoea & Eventually Pneumonia * Treatment & Consequences * Mortality Rate Is 15 % & As High As 56% In Elderly * Broad Specrum Antibiotics * Antiviral Drugs & Steroids & Ventilation Prevention * No Sharing

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    Title of Speech/ Business | Summary/ Description | Ethos | Logos | Pathos | Rhetorical Devices | Audience/ Purpose/ Effectiveness | Speech #1Susan B. Anthony: After Being Convicted of Voting | Susan B. Anthony stands up for her gender and fights for women’s right to vote. | Susan B. Anthony is the speaker; her reputation is being set by this speech. This speech could either ruin her chances at a great reputation‚ or transform her into a hero (which it did). | She uses logical points when she states

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    Bordetella pertussis also commonly known as whooping cough is a very contagious respiratory infection. This infection is caused by a gram negative coccobacillus. This organism damages ciliated epithelium in the nasopharynx and bronchioles. The toxin produced by Bordetella pertussis paralyses the cilia‚ causes tissue inflammation‚ and leads to impaired mucus clearance. In serious cases lymphocytosis occurs due to the inhibition of phagocytic functions‚ leading to a formation of a mucus exudate. The

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    The issue of the effectiveness of vaccines has been a long standing debate. Whether vaccines have indeed saved humanity countless times or has been the medium through which companies such as AstraZeneca can instill disease and thus fear unto humans for profit is a controversial topic. The one contributor of society that one would find astonishing to find opposing vaccines is doctors. One such doctor that found‚ in his experience‚ vaccines to be ineffective and arguably harmful is Dr. Harold Moskowitz

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    Did you know 122‚000 children died from measles in 2012? Did you also know that the death of these children was mostly preventable? The parents of these children believe vaccinating their children have negative impacts on their health‚ such as causing autism. They may also have personal or religious beliefs against childhood vaccinations. Contrary to these views‚ parents should not be allowed to opt out of vaccinations for their children. Not vaccinating children will lead to very serious negative

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    The main symptoms of bronchitis are cough and increased expectoration of sputum‚ with or without associated wheezing and shortness of breath. Acute bronchitis is usually caused by infection by one of the many viruses that cause the common COLD or INFLUENZA and is frequently associated with MEASLES. The patient may suffer from additional symptoms‚ such as chest discomfort‚ fever‚ and aching‚ that are characteristic of these diseases. WHOOPING COUGH is a form of severe bronchitis caused

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    by vaccines‚ some diseases have been shown to come back. Japan has shown this with their whooping cough epidemic in 1979. Back in 1974‚ about 80% of Japanese kids were vaccinated for whooping cough and only 363 cases were recorded that year. When only 10% of kids were vaccinated in 1979‚ the disease spread like wildfire: 13‚000 cases were recorded with 41 deaths (“What Would Happen If”). The whooping cough epidemic shows that diseases do not just go away‚ and they can come back with a surprising

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