Flu Vaccine Effectiveness Have you ever considered injecting yourself with a virus? Yes‚ purposefully. Well‚ if you’ve ever received a vaccine‚ then the answer‚ quite simply‚ is yes. Vaccines‚ in fact‚ are shots which inject the patient with a small dose of virus particles. These particles help the body build a natural immunity to the disease or virus. Who would have thought that the best way to prevent you from getting sick is actually exposing yourself!? But there’s more to vaccines than meet
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A Brief Overview of Swine Flu and Its Characteristics‚ Prevention‚ and Treatment Several years ago‚ the pandemic H1N1/09 virus‚ better known as “swine flu” plagued the world. People may wonder why this still matters today‚ but when looked at in retrospect‚ it can be seen that the 2009 outbreak of swine flu can we used as a great learning experience. Evans‚ Cauchemez‚ and Hayden (2009) suggest that with the study of swine flu‚ we can study these so called novel diseases‚ and prime the population
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responsible for the outbreak of war‚ there were other causes for the war which Germany were not responsible for‚ such as the Triple of Entente where Germany felt isolated and insecure. However‚ the Schlieffen Plan of 1905 referred to in sources 1 and 2 is frequently seen as an act of aggression. In source 1 Corrigan says that “Germany had in place a plan for an aggressive war” because they were concerned of having to fight Russia and France at the same time. The fact that the Schlieffen Plan was created over
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viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF). The virus is named after the Ebola River Valley in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire)‚ which is near the site of the first recognized outbreak in 1976 at a mission hospital run by Flemish nuns. It remained largely obscure until 1989 when several widely publicized outbreaks occurred among monkeys in the United States. The virus interferes with the endothelial cells lining the interior surface of blood vessels and with coagulation. As the blood vessel
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behavior of hospital health-care workers regarding influenza A/H1N1: a cross-sectional survey by (Albano et al‚ 2014) is a vivid study of the philosophy of action of the influenza A/H1N1.Considering the study did therein the qualitative‚ quantitative or mixed methods should be used because it allows a complete overhaul and study of the research sin focus. For example‚ the quantitative method in this study gives the statistical data that was analyzed in the results. This approach as used makes it possible
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Main article: Progress of the SARS outbreak The epidemic appears to have originated in Guangdong Province in November 2002 ("Patient #0" -- first reported symptoms -- has been attributed to Charles Bybelezar of Montreal‚ Canada) and‚ despite taking some action to control it‚ Chinese government officials did not inform the World Health Organization of the outbreak until February 2003‚ restricting media coverage in order to preserve public confidence. This lack of openness caused delays in efforts
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causes more than 30‚000 deaths in the US every year. Vaccination has to be done annually and yet effectiveness of the vaccine is variable due to multiple strains of the Influenza virus and the difficulty in predicting the strains for vaccine production. The question I researched in this experiment is whether or not there is a significant correlation between the degree of match between the strains of Influenza and the vaccine (measured as the percentage of matching amino acids of the flu virus and
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To what extent was Germany alone responsible for the outbreak of a major war in Europe in September 1959? Germany was mainly to blame for the outbreak Great War. Although other countries were partially to blame for there actions‚ which lead to the outbreak of war; it is clear that they only played a minor role in the eruption of the Great War. The Great War was caused by countless reasons and the extent to which these reasons were caused Germany depends on what actions the German leaders and ministers
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Outbreak at Watersedge Outbreak at Watersedge is a game that incorporates public health by creating a mystery to solve. An outbreak of severe diarrhea has taken place and the player must find the origin of the mini epidemic. The discovery game explores professional roles in public health‚ collecting data to support the conclusion and eventually finding out the cause of the outbreak. As a player‚ I mapped individual’s placement before they contracted the illness‚ collected information of where to
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aboriginal communities face a lot of health pandemics‚ have poor infrastructure and sanitation facilities and do not receive enough federal funding . Firstly‚ Health pandemics have a greater impact on Aboriginal communities than on non-aboriginal regions.According to statistics‚“Aboriginal peoples constitute only 3.8% of the Canadian population‚ from April 2009 to April 2010‚ [but] accounted for 7.4-10% of hospitalizations due to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic(Boggild et al 2011)” because of “poor living
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