The Pros And Cons Of The Spanish Flu Vaccine

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

One major reason they believe that you can get the flu because of the shot, is because the flu shot contains a the dead flu virus. People hear this, and they think that this can give them the flu, when it is actually impossible for you to get the flu from the dead virus. People tend to start to feel lesser flu like symptoms, or just don't feel that good, after getting a flu shot, and think that the shot gave them the flu. This is wrong, the actual reason that people feel sick after receiving the flu shot, is that they’re bodies are making antibodies. Antibodies are proteins that your body produces to help fight illnesses and bacteria. the dead flu virus in flu shots, expose your body to what the flu is like, so you can build antibodies against the flu. This greatly decreases the chance of receiving the flu, or makes the symptoms significantly less worse if you still get the flu. The most controversial reason that people choose to not receive the flu shot, or have their children get the flu shot, is that they believe that vaccines can cause autism. This belief does not come out of nowhere, and in fact stems from a research done by a prominent british medical journalist. The study was published in “The Lancet” and caused vaccine

The most dangerous diseases of our nation have been streaked out by widespread protection or immunity. This widespread protection has been the effect of an immense vaccination which is also called an immunization that introduces vaccines into the body. In this textbook, it mentions that a vaccine is “a preparation of killed, inactivated, or attenuated microorganisms or toxoids to induce artificially acquired active immunity.” (Tortora 487). Like anything else, there are many individuals who disagree with the common immunity or vaccination in general. These people base themselves off weak and false studies, which they then take and go further to spread their bias misled beliefs. These individuals do all of this without looking at the history,

Every fall season we hear the question; did you get your flu shot yet? It is supposed to protect you from that nasty flu virus that circulates our communities during the fall and winter months. But, did you know that in 2011 the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Adverse Event Reporting Systems Website (AERS) reported 51 deaths caused by the flu vaccine in the United States (U.S.) (CDC,2012). According to National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), as of July 2012 there have been more than 84,000 reports of adverse reactions, 1000 vaccine related deaths and over 1600 cases of Guillain- Barre syndrome, a acute form of paralysis, triggered by the vaccine (NVIC.ORG).

     Influenza has been around almost as long as people have walked the earth. Its roots draw back as far as 412 B.C., when a man named Hippocrates wrote of an uncontrollable outbreak of a disease that closely resembles influenza. This pandemic devastated an entire

No matter the technical, or medical advances that evolved over the years, nevertheless if an outbreak as powerful as the Influenza was to occur again in the United States it would still be just as bad as the first epidemic. With the first epidemic being massive enough to take out an estimate of fifty to an hundred thousand people in the matter of months, compared to the other epidemics that were just as harmful, but fatalities were not as high as the Influenza. Being aware of this

To answer my research question I will first review literature on flu vaccines from conventional sources such as the Center for Disease Control and National Institute for Health. I will then review other material available on the Internet written by doctors that do not agree with the conventional

One of the few cures to the disease was a vaccine created by teams of doctors at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. In partnership with those at Mercy hospitals in Mason City the vaccines developed weakened the germs in the disease at the base. The only problem facing this vaccine is that it was not a preventable vaccine, but rather you had to catch the flu before being treated. This often caused many problems because at the time of infection it was nearly too late for survival. By the 1920’s the largest influenza epidemic in United States history had come to an end. Not real cure was ever found, and the cause of the diseases spreading still remains a mystery in

The flu shot has been debated upon for years. Is it dangerous or beneficial to one’s health? The shot supposedly has mercury and many other harmful items that most people are not aware of, but other people argue the shot is necessary.

There is a division in the medical community about the benefits of getting vaccinated against the flu. Some medical professionals insist that vaccination against the flu can decrease death by fifty percent, while others provide evidence against such a claim. It is difficult to determine how many people die from the flu, who has the flu, and which strain of the flu someone has. There are over 200 viruses that cause flu like systems. In reality, researchers believe that only 7 or 8 percent of cases of people actually contract the flu that report systems associated with the flu such as, headache, fever, coughing, etc. The flu can mutate very quickly causing the virus to differ every flu season if only slightly. Thus, members of the World Health

By not getting the flu shot or any shot you need can lead to serious endangerment to yourself. Not having shots can lead to a contagion because all the germs a person has can be distributed to other people when they contact anyone or go out into the world. Vaccines help everyone and its one less thing to worry about in your

Influenza over the years has mutated so many different times that it is hard for scientists to keep up with new and updated versions of vaccines to keep people protected. The Flu for some people can cause major complications such as pneumonia and bronchitis because the Flu attacks the respiratory area, but most people who get the Flu will recover in a few days or up to a few weeks. The 1918 Spanish Flu was the worst epidemic that ever hit the world and the contributing factors of the millions of death were that there was no such thing as vaccines or antibiotics to fight off infections. The side effects were so severe that doctors misdiagnosed Influenza as a different infectious disease, and this specific Flu killed more people than the plague.

The first influenza pandemic was recorded as early as 1580. The orthomyxoviridae however, which is the etiological cause of influenza, was discovered by the Medical Research Council of the United Kingdom in 1933. Prior to that Haemophilus bacterium was thought to cause the flu. Influenza is an acute respiratory illness, which is caused by influenza A or B (and rarely C). It occurs every year, mostly during the winter season. The flu season in the United States can begin as early as October 4 and end as late as May. In 1938, Jonas Salk and Thomas Francis developed the first vaccine against flu. Currently it is recommended that all individuals 6 months and older should get vaccinated, unless there is a contraindication. Once an individual is

At no time was a search for the cure for influenza more frantic than after the devastating effects of the pandemic of 1918. The pandemic killed somewhere between twenty and a hundred million people, making it twenty five times more deadly than the ordinary cough and sneeze flu. The symptoms of this flu

Millions of people receive the flu vaccine annually. In contrast, there are millions of people who go without receiving the flu vaccine each year. Those who do not receive the vaccine do so because of what they think could happen to them if they were to receive it. There are many misconceptions the public has concerning the flu vaccine. Many believe if they receive the flu vaccine they will get the influenza virus. There are some who believe they do not need to receive the flu vaccine each year. Others think getting sick with the actual flu is better than getting the flu vaccine. The experts say getting the flu virus is worse than receiving the flu vaccine because the virus can be very serious or even deadly, so they advise everyone