Infectious diseases

celebrity or a physician. This anti-vaccination movement is a dangerous one based on discredited research and promoted by entertainers who do not have their medical degree. The worst part of this anti-vaccination movement is the reintroduction of fatal diseases. Heuvel confirms that in 2012 the United States saw a huge spike in cases of pertussis (whooping cough), its worst epidemic in over seventy years (2015). Bailey further supports this by adding, Unfortunately, whooping cough incidence…

The success of vaccines have had wide spread positive effects on the modern world helping to prevent hundreds of millions of deaths from diseases such as small pox, measles, tuberculosis, and the notorious Bubonic Plague ( The College of Physicians of Philadelphia). Although in recent years vaccine rates have dropped due to the misconception that Vaccines can link to autism spectrum disorder in a study conducted by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, which has led up to forty percent of parents delaying or…

to feed them, mostly grazing. Tetanus, sleeping sickness, flu, strangles, infectious anemia virus all are common diseases for horses. Tetanus is a bacterial disease marked by rigidity and spasms of the voluntary muscles, makes the horse neck stick and hard to swallow. Four is any of several chiefly viral illnesses marked especially by respiratory or gastrointestinal symptoms. Infectious anemia virus is a horse disease caused by a retrovirus and transmitted by bloodsucking…

Vaccines are a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. When vaccines are given, it is an injection of a muted down version of a particular disease that allows the body to naturally become immune. Vaccinations against a variety of diseases such as polio, measles, pertussis, rubella and hepatitis B have been successful in preventing negative health effects and death. Opponents of making vaccinations mandatory argue vaccines are not safe and cause…

Epstein - Barr virus or, Human herpesvirus 4, is the virus that causes infectious mononucleosis, and contains double-stranded DNA. This virus is species specific in that it only infects humans. The Epstein-Barr virus was discovered in 1964 when Michael Anthony Epstein and Yvonne Barr found it in a Burkitt lymphoma cell line. In 1968, they then linked the virus to the disease infectious mononucleosis. Once the host is infected with the virus it stays in the host for the remainder of the host’s…

origin of the smallpox disease is unknown. It is thought to date back to the Egyptian Empire around the 3rd century BC. This assumption was made based on a smallpox-like rash found on three mummies. The earliest findings of any disease that clearly resembled the smallpox disease emerged in the 4th century in China. Early written narratives of the smallpox disease also appeared in India in the 7th century and in Asia Minor in the 10th century (ACIP 2003). The Smallpox disease, which was caused…

safe but still effective. Vaccines allow the vaccinated to build immunity to the particular disease by introducing the body to the antigen, so it can be attacked, and through the immune response system gain antibodies that can recognize the antigen in future encounters and protect the body (“Basics”, n.d). Getting vaccinated can prevent a person from contracting the infectious disease and depending on the disease can save them from serious issues and even death. Additionally, being vaccinated…

Vaccines are a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease. Vaccination may be required for those hired for a job and attending school. Vaccines rarely prevent or contribute to prevent diseases. The vaccines are mad from dead or inactive organisms or purified products borrowed from them. The healthy immune system is able to recognize invading bacteria and viruses and produce substances (antibodies) to destroy or disable them. The micro-organisms in the…

1. The biggest difference between Darwinian medicine and Western medicine approachs to infectious diseases are their views. Western medicine looks at infectious diseases in a more proximal view where they want to cure the patient now and provide them with the most comfortable pathway. However, Darwinian medicine looks at infectious disease in a broader image where they take into consideration how curing an illness might weaken our future immunity or even lengthen the time it takes to heal.…

Assignment: MMR Vaccine Healthy People 2020 is a report created by the Surgeon General that focuses on wide-spread, “health promotion and disease prevention (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.).” One of the major goals Healthy People 2020 specifics is, “increasing immunizations and reducing preventable infectious diseases (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, n.d.).” In regards to this goal, one of the major vaccinations seeing a drastic decrease in use is…