Vaccines And The Diseases Of Vaccines

If you were to question any public health professional as to what the greatest biomedical achievement of the last century was, they would likely struggle to find a more influential achievement than the development of vaccines. The struggling breaths of whooping cough, the horrendous birth defects caused by rubella, and the clunky braces used by children paralyzed by polio, all are only thought of as occurrences of the past by many Americans. Many find it hard to believe that less than a century ago; the infant mortality rate was a massive 20 percent (Alexandra, Markel, 2005). Fortunately, many of these devastating diseases have been eradicated because of the development and widespread use of vaccines. The history of vaccines is, however, very complex. The growth widespread use of vaccines requires a balance of scientific ingenuity and social acceptance. Vaccines historically have, and continue to, cause strong scientific, social, and cultural reactions.

Vaccines can prevent people from contracting diseases, which is one of the main reasons why people should be vaccinated. Diseases can affect people in many ways. For example, smallpox was a very infectious and dangerous disease that killed many people. This disease was so deadly that it killed more than 500 million people in the nineteenth century (“Smallpox Fast Facts”). When Jenner discovered the smallpox vaccine, many people soon began to get vaccinated. Since a lot of

The world today is far different from how it used to be 2000 years ago, and 2000 more years from now it will continue to change. Changes come from what we currently have, so we have to decide what we are going to keep and what we want to change. One of the changes that we are going to have to decide is to keep or get rid of vaccines. A vaccination is when a person (normally a nurse) injects you with a small amount of weakened/dead microbes which helps your immune system get used to the disease and help prevent it. There are many benefits to have vaccines available to us, and like everything else in the world; there is a downside to having vaccines. Everyone has different opinions and depending on your perspective of how you see things, and what has happened to you. All of these factors can affect what and how you think of things.

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Believe it or not vaccines are very important to human health. The risks of getting a communicable disease are reduced greatly when the people around you are properly vaccinated. Vaccines cause the human immune system to produce disease fighting antibodies without causing the disease to itself. By developing new vaccines scientists and health care workers have been able to stay a step ahead of communicable diseases.

When one is given a vaccine, the body’s immune system fights the disease or virus causing the body to become immune to the disease. Before vaccines, the only way to become immune to a disease was too simply contract the disease and hopefully live with no serious side effects or passing on the potentially deadly illness or dangers in a wide-spread epidemic. Vaccinations have been saving lives for over 200 years now. Below is a chart showing the successful impact vaccinations have had in the United States.

Vaccinations are produced by developing a live, but weakened or inactive form of a disease. This weakened form of the disease, is then introduced into the body via injection, inhalation, or ingestion. Providing the body with this inactive version of the disease, the body’s natural defense mechanisms are triggered and begin creating antibodies against the disease, which in turn, allows

Vaccination is a process by which an individual is made immune to a particular pathogen, typically via injection. To understand vaccines, it is best to first understand how the human immune system works. In his book, Immunobiology (2001) Charles Janeway, a notable immunologist, states that there are two arms to the human immune

It is perceived to be a social standard in society to uphold high beliefs in vaccinations. Medical professionals as well as historic scientific research support the progression of immunization and its historical triumph against infection and disease. For example, English physician Edward Jenner pioneered the smallpox vaccine, which opened the doors for more ventures into the world of vaccinations. Due to the advancement in technology of the 21st century, we are able to address more diseases and create new components for vaccines to help find innovative ways to distribute them and test effectiveness. The progress in science has always been the driving force for the development and improvement of an effective vaccine. With the second golden age

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Vaccines have been used to prevent diseases for centuries, and have saved countless lives of children and adults. The smallpox vaccine was invented as early as 1796, and since then the use of vaccines has continued to protect us from countless life threatening diseases such as polio, measles, and pertussis. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2010) assures that vaccines are extensively tested by scientist to make sure they are effective and safe, and must receive the approval of the Food and Drug Administration before being used. “Perhaps the greatest success story in public health is the reduction of infectious diseases due to the use of vaccines” (CDC, 2010). Routine immunization has eliminated smallpox from the globe and

Throughout history, as the population grew, there have been outbreaks of disease causing many deaths because there were no cures and the diseases were infectious and spread rapidly. We begin our history of vaccines and immunization in the United States with the story of Edward Jenner, a country doctor living in Berkeley who in 1796 performed the first modern vaccination for smallpox, saving his community and many more to come.(why italics) Although the first known vaccines for smallpox are believed to have been used in China in the year 1000 AD, proving that this disease has been in existence for hundreds of years, it is interesting to note that smallpox is now considered eradicated. The last case in the United States was in 1948 and the last case in the world was in Somalia in 1977. Since vaccinations have become more available there have been fewer incidences of disease outbreaks in communities and childhood mortality rates have dropped considerably.(ProCon.org,2015)

As a result of vaccines certain diseases that once were fatal to many people in our country have either been reduced or eliminated. In 1980 smallpox was eradicated as a result of the World Health Organization campaign efforts for global vaccination (http://www.who.int/csr/disease/smallpox/en/). Vaccinations are not only beneficial for the individual person but also because they provide protection for communities by creating herd immunity (https://www.vaccines.gov/basics/protection/). Herd immunity also prevents outbreaks such as measles.

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“I do believe sadly that its going to take some diseases to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe”(Jenny McCarthy). In the eighteenth century, there was a widespread of the smallpox disease which killed its victims and left them terribly disabled. Vaccines are scientific preperations that provide active acquired ability of an organism to resist a paricular infection. Vaccines contain agents that act as life threatening objects in the body. These agents allow the body to recognize them as so and help the body destroy it. Edward Jenner, a physician and scientist, founded vaccinology in 1796 after planting cowpox into an eight year old boy, who resisted smallpox. He inserted the vaccine into a wound in the boy’s arm.