For many couples, one of the best moments of their lives is discovering that they are soon to become parents. The type of joy and excitement children bring to their parents, especially the brand new ones, are sometimes inexplicable. But what if some type of phenomenon were to occur and induce great danger to the unborn child? Imagine the type of pain the parents will feel. For one father-to-be from Arkansas, he never expected on what was about to come. According to a news article from CNN news, Chris Creekmore and Leslie were a couple from Arkansas who were soon to become parents. However, a very unfortunate event occurred; Leslie contracted the flu virus and had a miscarriage (Payne and Landau). Along with their unborn child, Leslie and …show more content…
If schools mandate seasonal flu vaccinations, many people would be protected from getting sick with the flu, missed school days due to the flu would be reduced, community flu outbreaks would be prevented, and mortality and hospitalization rates related to flu would be decreased.
Influenza or the flu is a highly contagious disease that affects millions of people world-wide. It has been a public health issue for many decades. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes flu as an illness of the respiratory tract that can manifest symptoms like cough, runny nose, and fever. Symptoms can range from being mild to being extremely severe, and can sometimes lead to fatality. Certain parts of the population, such as the elderly, children younger than five years of age, pregnant women, and individuals with a certain illness like asthma and diabetes, are at a higher risk for complications from the flu. These complications consist of exacerbation of chronic diseases, pneumonia, and ear and sinus infections. A person infected with the flu virus can easily contaminate others simply by talking, sneezing, or touching an object with the virus and then using the hand to touch one’s own orifices. Although there are other measures like good hand hygiene that can be done to prevent illness from the flu, the best method is still through vaccination. Some individuals may be hesitant to receive vaccines due of fear of needles. However, they do have another option of
To get the flu vaccine or not to get the flu vaccine? This is a huge controversial question millions of Americans today ask themselves every year. There are many myths that come along with the topic of the flu vaccine that lead to people questioning the effectiveness of the medication. Safety for our families and loved ones is what we aim to achieve, but what are the pros and cons of this vaccine? What are the consequences and what are myths, but most importantly: what are the reasons we should get it in the first place? In this paper you will learn the many reasons for the flu vaccination and how it affects different populations beginning with children all the way to the elderly population. First of all, what is the flu
Influenza is an infectious illness that can be spread from one individual to the next. It can be transmitted by means of saliva, nasal secretions, feces and blood. It can also be spread by coming in contact with the virus on contaminated surfaces. Influenza is responsible for an average of 36,000 deaths and for more than 226,000 hospitalizations each year in the United States. (Davidson, 2007-2009, Davis, 2007).
Over 3 million US cases have occurred per year. The flu is a viral infection that can be deadly if not treated. The flu is extremely contagious, it can spread about six feet away from another person. It may be spread by coughing or sneezing, skin-to-skin contact, saliva, or touching a contaminated surface. Children, elderly people, pregnant women, and people who have chronic disease are at higher risk of becoming ill with this virus. The areas mainly affected are lungs, nose, and chest. Symptoms include fever, chills, sore throat, muscle fatigue, cough, runny nose, and headaches. Some symptoms may appear abruptly. A recommended treatment may primarily deal with the patient getting some rest. Other treatment includes drinking plenty of water; throat Lozenge would be advised for throat pain, decongestant such as Pseudoephedrine for stuffy nose, Dextromethorphan for cough, anti-inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen for mild pain, and antiviral drug like Zanamivir to help treat type B influenza. The best way to be protected is vaccination. The vaccine is offered from September to mid-November. Getting vaccinated before the flu season helps the body develops a strong immunity from the virus. It is safe for a Pregnant woman to receive vaccination. Annual vaccination is recommended. Do not get
According to the Oxford dictionary, "abortion is the expulsion of a fetus from the uterus by natural causes before it is able to survive independently." Abortion has perhaps been a highly politicized over the past several decades. The major political parties in the United States have adopted distinct positions on this issue. When the death a fetus occurs naturally, it is called a miscarriage. When the loss of a fetus is caused intentionally, it is regarded as a significant moral and societal issue that needs to be dealt with. An article on washingtonpost.com stated that, "studies show that there is an imbalance between the number of firearms-related deaths 30,000 a year and abortions performed each year in the United States more than 750,000 a year." This shows that more death occur from abortions that firearms. To better picture what an abortion is, the mental image of a baby covered in blood placed in a basin and chopped into about fifty pieces. This will help understand how cruel and wicked abortion is. I intend to argue that abortion is morally, logically, and religiously wrong. Unless murder becomes legal, abortion should remain illegal.
Influenza is a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages that causes severe body aches, high fever, and can sometimes lead to death. To be protected, you must be immunized every year. “A new study found that the influenza vaccine prevents type A and type B in only 1.5 out of every 100 vaccinated adults, but the media portrays these statistics as this meaning the vaccination is 60 percent effective” (Medline Plus). Unfortunately, this does not mean 60 out of 100 people who receive the flu shot leads to protection against influenza. Researchers can confirm that most strains of influenza are harmless against healthy individuals; however, the virus has an ability to mutate into different strains which can cause an extensive
Summary: This article discusses reasons that children over six months should receive annual flu vaccinations (Komaroff). Dr. Anthony Komaroff talks about four reasons to get protected from the flu; the flu can be hazardous to chilren, the flu vaccine does not give a person the flu, “the flu shot is safe” and the vaccine protects more than the recipient (Komaroff). The flu can be hazardous to chilren, especially for children who suffer from asthma or have “chronic health problems” like diabetes (Komaroff). There are strains of the flu that are “particulary danferous for” children, some can even result in death (Komaroff). The flu vaccine does not give a person the flu because the vaccine is made of “virus that had been killed” (Komaroff). There
Influenza is a serious but common respiratory illness. The flu "usually occurs in 15-25% of the world's human population each year. This illness typically has a low death rate, with average overall mortality rates of 0.1%" (Pierce & Black 2008: 1). However, the elderly are one of the more susceptible populations to contracting influenza and suffer more severe consequences than healthy adults as a result of being exposed to the flu.
According to Healthy People 2020 a goal of theirs is to “increase immunization rates and reduce preventable infections.” The influenza virus is one of these preventable infections, which can cause serious harm to patients. The influenza virus is known as the “flu.” Everyone in his or her life has had some experience with the flu, whether that is himself or herself or a family member. What if there was a way to ensure people from contracting a strain of the influenza virus? Well, thanks to technology and medical research there is.
P. Encourage S. T. to get the influenza vaccine yearly to reduce the likelihood of him contracting the flu virus. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (2017), the influenza vaccine is the best defense against the influenza virus and to reduce influenza illnesses missed work and school. Also, education S. T. on proper hand hygiene can control the spreading of the virus to others. Hand hygiene and education was the most protective factor against influenza virus because it prevents the transmission of the virus (Smith et al.,
The majority of people who catch influenza will only experience mild illness, and not require any antiviral drugs. However, there are a few people who will be at a greater risk of contracting the virus and to have problems related, which can result in death. The people who are more susceptible to influenza are adults over 65, infants under the age of 5, people in long-term care facilities (e.g. nursing homes), pregnant women, people who have medical conditions, people on long-term medication, people who are extremely obese. The individuals listed are more vulnerable to complications as a consequence of a compromised immune system and other factors. Long term care facility residents make an increased amount of contact with communal objects,
Flu sort B likewise has antigenic fluctuation, in spite of the fact that to a lesser degree than flu A infections. Flu sort C causes a less extreme ailment than either A or B, and is more like the normal chilly. At the point when a man is contaminated, the influenza infections they convey can be spread by hacking or sniffling, with the goal that the infection is discharged into the air and may contact someone else. Individual to-individual spread may likewise occur by means of polluted surfaces, for example, entryway handles or taps, and from shaking hands. Contamination with infections or microbes triggers the resistant framework to discharge proteins called antibodies. The particular piece of the infection or bacterium that triggers the immune response reaction is called an antigen. Once created by the body, antibodies flow in the circulation system until the point that they come into contact with an antigen. The antibodies can either trigger different components of the body's invulnerable framework to follow up on the antigen, or they can follow up on the antigen straightforwardly to render it innocuous. The way to the capability of flu infections to spread so effortlessly lies in their capacity to avoid the human safe framework.
Influenza is one of the most contagious illnesses caused by airborne viruses. I can lead to mild or severe illness and even death. Influenza can come suddenly and is marginally different to a ‘Cold”. The virus can cause infections of the lower respiratory tract (lungs) and the upper respiratory tract (throat, nasal). Influenza is disease that may cause symptom such as the following; fever (high body temperature), sore throat, muscle or body aches, cough, Headaches, runny or stuffy nose, fatigue/tiredness (CDC, 2016). it belongs to “Orthomyxoviridae” family of infections, “myxa” meaning ‘mucus’ in Greek. There are three major types of influenza that may also be addressed as different terminologies, such as flu
Ethics can be defined as a set of principles which dictate what is considered as morally ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Abortion is defined as the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy through a medical procedure which results in the death of a fetus. Within ethics, there are many arguments as to whether abortion should be permitted in society as many regard it as an act of murder and others simply see it as a decision that should be given to the mother only. The issue of abortion remains to be one of the most controversial topics in society, which causes an inevitable clash of opinion. Through the exploration of philosophical principles, we are able to evaluate the origins of such opinions. In the same way, utilitarianism equates wrongness or blameworthiness of an action with its resultant pain or unhappiness. The central principle of utilitarianism expresses the belief that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. Since utilitarianism differentiates ethical and unethical actions on the basis of the outcomes of those actions, it falls into the consequentialist class. With this belief, utilitarianism challenged traditional views that abortion was an 'evil ' act, arguing instead that the end justifies the means. In contrast, the deontologist would consider the intent of the person seeking an abortion in evaluating its ethical standing. In addition to this, postmodernism argues that, since there is
Flu is a type of disease that caused by the virus from the oesophagus, including the nose, throat, bronchi and the lungs. The disease can happens to everybody, but with young children, and elderly, the ill person’s chronic and reduces the possibility of having a particular immune. The virus spreads from one person to another person through sneezing. Sometimes through the ill person has the virus from their hand, and then put their hand on their mouth, nose. The virus can last from 2 to 8 hours after attached to the human surface. Today, we haven’t discovered a special treatment for this disease; the treatment is mainly to reduce the sickness, relaxation, and to increase the physical fitness. Therefore, for the disease prevention is a very hard
According to London et al. (2014), stillbirth is defined as the “death of a fetus or infant from the time of conception through the end of the newborn period 28 days after birth” (p. 481). In 2011, in the country of Taiwan, there were a total of 2,321 stillborn births and it was reported that 60% of the women who experienced this loss suffered from severe postpartum depression within 4 years (Tseng, Chen, & Wang, 2014, p. 219). Although it is known that the mothers of these infants suffer with traumatic stress, follow-ups after stillbirths are rare and there is no community support groups available. There is not much information available on the experience of Taiwanese women who experience a stillbirth nor is there information about the steps taken by these women to recover from their loss. Thus, this study seeks to understand the experiences of these Taiwanese women who have experienced the loss of an infant and how they cope within their society (Tseng et al., 2014, p. 219).