Chicken Pox: A Very Common Childhood Disease

To persuade the audience of this argument she uses visuals, evidence and an appeal to worry or shock tactics. The visual, by Wayne Taylor, is of a young child getting a vaccination, this instils the idea that vaccines decrease the risk of diseases rather than increase the risk as many people believe. “increased risk of miscarriage or stillbirth… birth defects,” these phrases intend to instil a sense of worry or fear in the audience as they care about their families and other helpless children and babies who can’t fight against diseases without vaccinations.

After I was on my wonderful vacation, I was forced to say goodbye to Bora Bora. But it ended in a way I would never even think would be possible.

Significance: The topic is very significant to my audience because unvaccinated children are becoming a rising problem and old diseases thought to have been eradicated have resurfaced and new and soon to become parents need to be educated.

Specific Purpose: The specific purpose of my topic is to persuade my audience that immunizations are important and actually do more good than harm.

Topic Sentence: Vaccinations are dangerous and threaten the health of the immune system in both adults and chidren.

A child’s teacher has taken the child’s parents aside to talk about concerns taking place in the classroom related to the child’s ability to pay attention in class. When hearing news such as this it can be devastating to a parent or caregiver. For this reason, among others, it is important to have a reliable and easily understood source for information. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is one such source available for information seekers that readily providers a source of truth. Their sites include informational webpages about important and impactful topics such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This site leverages information sharing using ETHOS, PATHOS, and

The discussion of a possible link between autism spectrum disorder and vaccinations stirs up people’s emotions. For this reason, it is crucial to determine the correct rhetorical context. Rhetorical context plays a vast role in the portrayal and the writing of a piece. A major part of rhetorical context in a research paper is the audience. For my research paper, I determined that my audience will be young, educated couples who are expecting their first child and are about to do research on the issue.

This article largely appeals to pathos to make us feel compelled to vaccinate our children. Parker compares her perfectly healthy childhood with no vaccines to her children’s very healthy childhood with vaccines. which her children have rarely been sick. She uses her illnesses such as developing penicillin-resistant quinsy, the same disease that killed Queen Elizabeth, to appeal to the audience’s emotions. She then uses the children of anti-vaxxers to appear helpless for not having the choice to be

Chapter four of Viruses, Plagues, and History, entitled Smallpox, provided a broad spectrum of information about smallpox as well as exploring its potential to return and once again cause death and devastation. I found this chapter to be especially terrifying because of the stress put on the fact that smallpox could be weaponized by bioterrorists. All of the information about smallpox itself as well as its history as a virus and a weapon really scared me because it could cause so much devastation.

Smallpox was once one of the most severe infectious diseases that was endemic throughout the world for most of the recorded history. It is caused by variola virus (a DNA virus and a member of the Poxviridae family), and characterized by three phases: incubation, prodrome and rash. This disease killed and disfigured innumerable millions of people globally.

Throughout history, diseases have been recorded. Some species were wiped out completely, while others learned to adapt. Small pox is one such disease that has the ability to completely destroy the human population.

The intended purpose of this presentation is to provide facts and scientific research that persuades the audience members regarding the use of vaccinations. My intention is that the audience will support the use of vaccinations and consider the facts before making decisions that affect the entire community. My central idea is that inaccurate data exists with regards to vaccination; instead, that vaccinations should be viewed as essential for protection of society, both from extreme illness as well as life threatening, and sometimes fatal, diseases.

For my problem statement study, I have decided to set the stage for my case by emphasizing the benefits of vaccines, because it is difficult to get those parents who refused to vaccinate their children to perceive the benefits of vaccines due to predisposing factors such as attitudes, values, beliefs, and knowledge.1 The data for Fig 1 came from the raw data provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. I created this visualization of the data using the pivot table function in Excel. At a glance, it is clear to see the diseases that were impacting infants and young children prior to the use of vaccines to treat them. Measles were a major issue back then, over 0.5 million cases per year. The use of vaccines made the most dramatic impact in the reduction of the

The Varicella-Zoster virus causes a very infectious disease called Chickenpox. Chickenpox is usually acquired through the inhalation of airborne respiratory droplets from an infected host. Chickenpox is primarily acquired during childhood , with more than 90% of all reported cases occurring in children under the age of 10. A person with chickenpox can spread the virus without even showing any signs or symptoms. It is usually most easily transmitted two to three days before a rash appears and keeps that high transmission rate until the blisters have crusted over.

Chickenpox is a viral infection caused by the Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) transmitted via the respiratory route that causes itchy, blisters-like rashes usually lasting about 5-10 days. It is highly contagious transmitted by person to person contact (direct) from respiratory secretions or indirectly through contact with airborne respiratory droplets, via soiled inanimate objects infected by discharge from skin lesions, vesicle discharges or nasopharyngeal secretions. The incubation period lasts about 10-21 days and the disease is communicable 1-2 days