Prevention And Prevention Of Measles

​Over the past decade, the concern among parents regarding the safety and effectiveness of childhood vaccinations has become a concern in the United States and other countries around the world. A survey of physicians showed that 89% of the physicians who were surveyed reported at least one refusal of childhood vaccinations by parents each month (Gowda & Dempsey, 2013). Other researchers have noted that as many as 77% of parents have concerned about one or more of the childhood vaccinations that are recommended for children (McKee & Bohannon, 2016). However, organizations such as the World Health Organization (2017) note that not only are childhood vaccinations safe, the reduction in children receiving childhood vaccinations has brought back diseases such as measles that had been completely wiped out in the United States. It is clear that there are opposing viewpoints about childhood vaccinations that need to be understood and examined to determine which side has a better argument.

The vaccinations of children are a cornerstone of the United States public health measures to protect people from a host of infectious diseases and possible death. Vaccines are beneficial to the greater good of the public health including your own as well as being a cost effective way to manage infectious diseases. Diseases that used to be common throughout this country and around the world can now be prevented by vaccination. These diseases include polio, measles, diphtheria, pertussis, rubella, mumps, tetanus, rotavirus, and haemophilus influenza type b (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014).

The new trend of parents not having their children vaccinated for measles is causing harm to the child and contributing to future outbreaks of the disease.

In December of 2014, an outbreak of measles, which started in Disneyland, resulted in nearly two hundred people being sickened across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The highly contagious respiratory disease spread for three months. Among those who contracted the illness, one developed severe pneumonia and multiple organ injury, while another suffered acute respiratory distress syndrome. So, why did an illness, which was purportedly eliminated sixteen years ago, experience a surge so dramatic that it caused more cases in 2014 than in the five preceding years combined? According to the CDC, the outbreak could be boiled down to one simple reason: “The majority of people were unvaccinated.” So while the California measles outbreak is a thing of the past, the fight to increase compliance with vaccinations continues. Although the benefits and safety of vaccinations are undisputed by the medical and scientific community, there are still sizeable groups of “anti-vaxxers” who refuse to vaccinate their children. These groups spread misconceptions, sometimes unknowingly, and become even more influential when coupled with the power of the internet and social media. Therefore, in order to increase compliance with routine vaccinations, the misconceptions of parents should be targeted, and legislation should be changed in order to prevent leniency and loopholes regarding vaccine exemptions.

We have all heard the old saying a bad apple can spoil the whole barrel. However, now there is research to prove it, at least in work situations . In the podcast, Ira Felps speaks to a professor in the Netherlands, who created an experiment to see what happens to productivity when a bad worker joins a team. Felps separated people into small groups and then gave them a task. One member of the group was an actor, after a short amount of time the rest of the group started behaving like the bad apples as well. The next part of the podcast talked about measles vaccinations. Measles cases are higher than they've been in decades mainly because more parents are nervous and refusing to vaccinate their children. Recently, an unvaccinated 7-year-old boy

Vaccines and getting vaccinated is considered a normal thing for most people, but why? Vaccines are very important and helpful in our society. They can help prevent you from getting a disease (like measles), they can prevent the spread of a disease, they are safe and effective, and lastly, they keep you healthy. Getting vaccinated can’t always guarantee perfect results, but getting it done can help protect you and your family.

Preventing disease is much easier than treating a disease once it occurs. Vaccines can prevent most childhood diseases such as measles, diphtheria, polio, and small pox. There has been much discussion in the news recently over whether or not to vaccinate children. One argument is that vaccines are not safe and contribute to autism. The vast majority of people continue to believe childhood vaccines are safe and choose to have their children vaccinated. If deadly diseases are going to continue to be prevented, it is necessary to have children vaccinated.

Although the topic of vaccines and completing all recommended vaccine series can sometimes be difficult for some parents to comprehend, proper education and evidence based research can facilitate the goal of vaccinating children as adequately as possible. In recent years, the number of vaccines has increased. Children who are not immunized can readily transmit vaccine-preventable diseases throughout

It has been a hot topic lately in the radio, television, and news about parents not getting their kids measle vaccination even though it is mandatory, causing other problems to parents that took their kids to get vaccination shot. Measle is highly contagious respiratory disease that is caused by a virus, it was eliminated in the 19th century but it came back and is widely spreading again, affecting children that are vaccinated and children who did not took the shot at school, which is causing worries to the parents. It is mandatory to get a measle vaccination, it is crucial for everyone to participate in order for the virus to be fully eliminated, and parents who are working will be rest assured to leave their son and daughter to the school’s care.

Vaccinations are very important to help keep our bodies safe. They prevent diseases like chickenpox, the measles, and influenza. Doctors highly encourage to get properly vaccinated to prevent getting sick and keeping yourself and others around you healthy. By getting vaccinated you are helping yourself stay healthy so that you can stay active and have a long healthy

The consequences of not vaccinating a child can have serious effects on them as well as the people around them. The virus will continue to grow and spread if vaccination is reducing in children. People who decide to stop vaccinating their child can easily cause an impact on society. Not only do parents jeopardize their own child health but they are also putting other children at risk, especially children that cannot be vaccinated. Children that cannot receive vaccination is because of allergies in the medication, so they rely on others who are vaccinated. Because of the lack of vaccination there were multiple outbreaks, “In 2014 there was a massive measles outbreak in the United States, 668 cases reported by 27 states” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1). Measles is an easily contagious disease and can be passed on from one person to another. The death percentage it has on people is provided by Public Medical Heath: “Each year measles causes more than half a million deaths and is

Measles is a highly communicable disease that has been eliminated from the United States since 2000. In 2015, the first death in 12 years associated with measles occurred. The recent trend of refusing vaccines jeopardizes public health in the United States. A literature review was performed to examine elements of this topic; to include modeling of risks for reemergence of this endemic, examination of the vaccine manufacture process and the reasons why parents are choosing to decline immunizations for their children. Strategies for intervention are proposed, such as elimination of philosophical/belief-based exemptions and fines, as well as addressing and tracking rising diseases as bioterrorism is tracked. The Center for Disease

Measles is an airborne disease that is spread through respiration (contact with fluids from an infected person's nose and mouth, either directly or through aerosol transmission (coughing or sneezing)), and is highly contagious—90% of people without immunity sharing living space with an infected person will catch it.[4] An asymptomatic incubation period occurs nine to twelve days from initial exposure. The period of infectivity has not been definitively established, some saying it lasts from two to four days prior, until two to five days following the onset of the rash (i.e., four to nine days infectivity in total), whereas others say it lasts from two to four days prior until the complete disappearance of the rash. The rash usually appears

In 1963 the first measles vaccine was licensed, but as it only contained killed rubeola virus, it was largely ineffective. Later on, in 1968, a vaccine with live, attenuated rubeola virus was licensed, and is still used for routine immunization of infants and children. Usually the vaccine is in combination with either mumps and rubella (MMR) or mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV). The recommended administration of this vaccine is in two doses; the first, between 12-15 months, and the second, between 4-6 years of age. If the first dose is administered before 12 months, the vaccine could fail due to the presence of maternal antibodies which can interfere with the infant immune response. While measles is a global issue, immunization has significantly decreased incidence in the U.S. and as a result the most cases come from either failure to immunize infants/children due to religion conflicts or other objections, or cases brought into the U.S. from other

Prior to the modern era of childhood immunizations, parents would have been surprised at the thought that future generations would be able to protect their children from many of the most serious childhood infectious diseases. The development of immunizations is fairly recent, but one of the greatest successes in medical history. Most parents in the United States understand how imperative childhood immunizations are, but there are some parents that still chose to not have their children immunized against these lethal diseases. For some, the justification for denying these immunizations come from a religious perspective, but for most the decision is more commonly made out of ignorance or misinformation such as myths of side effects and long term effects of these vaccines. Many parents to not know the history of these fatal diseases and what parents had to fear when they did not have the option to vaccinate their children. After all, there was a time when diphtheria was one of the most feared childhood diseases, claiming more than 10,000 lives a year in the United States during the 1920s (CDC, Diptheria, 2016). In the 1940s through the 1950s, polio paralyzed and even took the lives of children by the thousands. At one point in time, the measles affected nearly a half-million US children every year. Almost everyone in the United States got it at some point during childhood—and it sometimes caused complications such as pneumonia and encephalitis (CDC, Measles (Rubeola), 2016).