Mumps is a severe viral disease characterized by unilateral or bilateral tenderness or swollen lymph node or other salivary glands. Mumps travels through a person-to-person contact or through direct contact with respiratory drops or saliva from an infected person. Compared to measles and varicella, which can be transmitted through the spread of aerosols, mumps is less infectious and damaging.Mumps has symptoms that cause damage to adult males and
Mumps usually involves pain, tenderness, and swelling in one or both salivary salivary glands (cheek and jaw area). Swelling is visible for the first time in front of the lower part of the ear. Then runs down and forward as liquid accumulates in the skin and soft tissue of the face and neck. Swelling usually peaks in 1 to 3 days and then recedes during the next week. Swollen tissues push the angle of the ear up and out. As swelling worsens, the angle of the jaw bone under the ear is no longer visible. Often, the jawbone can not feel due to parotid swelling. One parotid may swell before the other, and in 25% of patients, only one side swells. Other salivary glands (submandibular and sublingual) under the floor of the mouth may also swell but
Whooping cough (pertussis) is a serious, transmissible respiratory infection that is caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacterium. The disease is characterized by cold symptoms at first and develops to prolong coughing with a whooping sound made due to heavy breathing, sneezing, running nose and low body temperature. The disease is airborne and spread when an infected person sneezes or coughs and the close person breathe in the air. The disease mainly touches infants who are below six months old and children who are between 11 to 18 years of age whose immunity against the disease is dwindling, as its effectiveness lasts for four years. A number of Fallsburg Elementary School kids are in this age bracket, hence are likely to contract the disease.
Whooping cough (pertussis) has been on the rise in the United States in recent years. Last year the CDC reported 28,660 cases of whooping cough in the U.S. alone. With cases increasing annually, protecting infants is imperative in controlling the disease. Understanding the signs and symptoms of whooping cough along with the recommended protocol for immunization can mean the difference between life and death for children in your home or care.
Smallpox is a highly human contagious disease caused by the virus Variola. Variola’s Latin meaning is spotted. Smallpox is thought to have begun its infectious mission in Egypt around 3,000 years ago. The earliest evidence for the illness is from the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses V, who died in 1157 B.C. His mummified remains show evidence of spots and scars on his body thought to be evidence of Smallpox.
Immunisation has strongly integrated into medicine today, Vaccines and immunisations play a vital role in keeping us healthy. They are one of the most convenient and safest preventive care measures available. Every year approximately fifty thousand adults die from preventable diseases. Although many mothers still opt not to vaccinate their children due to complaints and claims of supposed specific effects of vaccines. Getting vaccinated is highly important because it provides protection for the individuals and also for those who cannot be vaccinated due to biological genetic reasons and for the younger babies due to their age. The government has implemented a new plan ‘no jab no pay’. Parents of children up to the age of 19 years who are
Measles is a highly contagious disease, and it is an uncomfortable illness. It may be a short period of time to be affected, but some things can be permanent if left uncared for. There are many key characteristics of the illness, and the way it gets into the body is very simple, and works well.
In the last several years, increased vaccination exemptions have resulted in multiple outbreaks of preventable viral diseases in the state of California. In response to school-wide quarantines and the threat of exposure to previously eradicated illnesses, recent legislation amended California state vaccination laws to reflect strict mandatory vaccination requirements. This paper explores the components of the California Senate Bill 277, implications for the public school system, and legal challenges to implementation of this Bill.
Smallpox is a transmittable disease, and a deadly one that has affected humans for thousands of years, also known as Variola. It was developed worldwide in 1980. Currently there are no treatments or cure are available for smallpox, although the vaccination’s side effects is too risky for the people who are at low risk to the deadly virus. The symptoms of smallpox will appear around twelve to fourteen days after the person received the disease. A person who has been incubated will stay there from seven to seventeen days. They will look and feel healthy and cannot spread the disease to others. During the incubation period the signs and symptoms include, fever, headache, severe fatigue, vomiting, and discomfort. After a couples days a red,
Vaccination is often considered one of the paramount successes in medicine to date. The basis of vaccination is the administration of a vaccine to stimulate an individual's immune system in development of an adaptive immunity to a pathogen. As a result of its invention, vaccination has seen diseases once commonplace in the population have become exceedingly rare and in some cases, entirely eliminated thanks to vaccination (smallpox). However, in order to effectively eradicate those typically transmittable diseases which vaccinations seek to prevent against, a certain percentage of a community must receive the vaccine—this idea is known as herd immunity. Therefore, to maximize the efficiency of vaccination, public health officials made the practice
Mumps virus is a single stranded RNA virus that belongs to the Paramyxoviridae family. Mumps is characterized by the bilateral or unilateral swelling of the parotid gland. This reemerging disease dates back to the 5th century B.C. and prior to vaccination, mumps was an epidemic disease with a cycle of 4-5 years. Despite MMR vaccinations, a sudden reemergence of cases was observed in 2005 in the United Kingdom. Most of the patients were between the ages of 19-23 and majority only been vaccinated once (Choi, 2010). Also an outbreak in the United States was reported in 2006 with over 5,800 cases. Most patients were college students between the ages of 18-24 and majority only been vaccinated twice (Choi, 2010). Both appear to not have been sufficient levels of vaccines to obtain immunity for mumps in a given population like college students (Choi, 2010).The outbreak of mumps are
Vaccine also called immunization was derived from Variolae vaccinae, smallpox of the cow named by Edward Jenner, an English physician who was the pioneer of an infectious disease called smallpox. Poland, a writer of the book "Vaccines" interpret the definition of vaccines in a simple phrase. "A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular disease" ("Vaccines"). In other words, vaccinating is an anticipation that gives us protection to a disease that is transmitted. Indeed, vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened microbe. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, and keep a record of it
Whooping cough is a highly infectious disease that is spread by coughing and sneezing. It’s caused by bacteria which damage the breathing tubes.This pathogen produces a toxins that disrupt the normal function of cilia in the lungs, resulting in a critical cough.Whooping cough is caused by a bacteria (pertussis) it is contagious respiratory tract infection.It can be serious for anyone, but life-threatening for newborns and infants.
Perception of a good or service changes human reaction to it, especially when protecting another person. Before the measles vaccine came out, the disease was seen as typical and a part of growing up, the disease was just as harmful as it was before the vaccine but it’s symptoms and effects weren’t as well known. Pre vaccine measles was known to have some deadly symptoms, but people were unconcerned because they were thought to be incredibly infrequent. Even after the vaccination was created people were uninterested, until health officials stepped in to spread the word on how dangerous the disease is. The general public began showing concern and interest after they were informed that measles could leave their children blind, deaf, and mentally
According to the IUPUI Newsroom, one of the most contagious diseases is measles. In fact, it is so contagious that if an infected person comes into contact with 20 unvaccinated individuals, 19 of those 20 people will acquire measles (Indiana 1). An introduction vaccine against measles was discovered in 1940, and was described as a powerful tool to protect soldiers from devastating epidemics of pneumonia (Conis 5). Measles were first discovered in 1757 by Francis Home, who established that it was caused by an infectious organism in a person’s blood. In 1912, it became recognized in the United States, which required public
There are more serious symptoms of having mumps, but although these are more severe they are also a lot less common.