Vaccines And Its Effects On Society

Sufficient data shows that vaccines has made a major improvement in decreasing suffering and death of infectious diseases and syndrome. And yet, despite the mounting evidence that reassure the safety and value of vaccination, public health continuous faces the dilemma over individual choice, autonomy and protection of the entire population at risk. Children in developing countries now have more access to vaccines, yet, the debate continue over the requirement, including mandates immunization during public health emergency and school-aged. This paper addresses the framework for policy and laws that are associated with immunization that protect our children from infectious diseases.

The means of dealing with infectious diseases that endanger individual and public health have evolved over the years. In 1789, however, the most protective technology used to prevent epidemics was introduced by physician Edward Jenner; vaccination. Vaccine efficiency continues to develop and become more advanced, producing immunity to infectious diseases from 90 to 100 percent of the time today. Because of inoculation, millions of people worldwide are immunized from fatal epidemics. However, because of unsubstantiated fears, many parents have been withholding vaccines from their children. Despite this, parents should not have the right to withhold vaccines from their children for philosophical reasons. Vaccines are the best way to prevent disease, vaccine exemptions endanger individual and public health, and without widespread inoculation, controlled diseases will rebound.

In the late 1700’s, Edward Jenner published his work on the development of a smallpox vaccination. Nearly a century later, Louis Pasteur goes on to formulate the Germ Theory of Disease. Two years later, Pasteur goes on to create the first live attenuated bacterial vaccine for chicken cholera. Six years later, the rabies vaccination is developed by the same man.

Vaccines are the most successful strategies in medicine to prevent and even eliminate the most gruesome and contagious diseases. For centuries, smallpox traumatized the human race. Today, smallpox is not something we automatically think of when somebody gets a rash or have the chills, thanks to Edward Jenner. The first successful smallpox vaccine was introduced by Jenner in 1796. Although, Jenner’s portrayed the first scientific attempt to control this deadly disease, later in the 19th century it was perceived that the vaccination did not grant immunity for the rest a victim 's life. As the 19th century came to an end, the smallpox vaccine became more advanced and more depended on. Scientist Louis Pasteur amazed the French Academy of Medicine when he prevented two boys from contracting rabies. Once a person was to get rabies, the symptom was death. A 15-year-old, Jean-Baptiste, was bitten several times while conflicting with a rabid dog. Three days following to the dog attack, Pasteur and his colleagues injected Jean 13 times over 10 days with rabid rabbits’ nerve tissue that had

What’s America’s greatest fear in today’s society? Today, a person’s greatest fear is viruses because viruses are what cause infectious diseases, like HIV, Influenza, and a ton of other diseases. So that is why we use vaccinations. Many ask the questions do Vaccines work? In fact they do! Vaccines are good for a lot of different things, they promote economic growth, extend life expectancy, and they even protect people from spreading or acquiring the disease.

In the 1880’s, Louis Pasteur conducted one of the most unpleasant series of animal experiments in the history of the fight against infectious disease. Unable to see the organism that causes rabies with the microscopes available, he convinced a skeptical medical community of the microorganism’s existence and also the possibility of vaccinating against it. He did this by doing work on rabbits and dogs. In 1885, after much heart searching, he tried out his rabies vaccine on a nine-year old boy, Joseph Meister, who had been bitten 14 times by a rabid dog. Thanks to Pasteur’s vaccine, the boy lived. (Hampson 1) The life of Joseph Meister and many others like him have been saved by animal experimentation. No matter

The term ‘vaccine’ has not been around forever, but many versions have arisen in the history books. The first evidence of

This paper examines the controversy surrounding the public health issue of vaccinations in children. Following a careful review of the literature surrounding this issue, the possible reasons for and implications of having a large percentage of the population who remains unvaccinated are discussed. Possible interventions and purposed interventions for resolution of this problem are discussed and conclusions are drawn based on what it learned from the literature.

Jenner and Pasteur are known as the pioneers of vaccinations. By the 1950’s many more

As a little kid I always feared going to the doctors. I dreaded the long, scary needles and being poked by them. Every time my mom told me I had to go to the doctors, I would immediately ask her if I had to get any shots. If she said yes, I would start crying, begging her not to take me and saying why are you doing this to me. Her response was always the same, saying I had to do this to stay healthy and it would only hurt for a little bit. At the time I never really understood what she meant, because I had been sick tons of times, so what good are these shots really doing for me. I thought if I missed some of the vaccines I would be fine and nothing bad would happen to me, but what would have really happened if my mom let me skip these vaccination

The history of vaccination is something that both medical and public health students study as the basic foundational building blocks of modern western biomedicine. In the late 1700s, a man by the name of Edward Jenner, an English physician and scientist, inoculated an 8-year old boy with the pus drawn from the cowpox lesions of a dairy milkmaid (Green, 2015). The hypothesis at the time was that since milkmaids had a lower incidence of small pox while still having lessor cases of cowpox that the two were related. Researchers in Germany and England , through extensive testing, had supported this hypothesis. Jenner though was the first to make widespread use of the variolation.

Throughout the history of medicine doctors have encounter many diseases. Unfortunately not all are restorable. Many scientists along with physicians have put in hard work and dedication to medicine study to find cures for each and every illness or diseases that exist today. Studies have proven that medicine alone cannot keep us all healthy; other mediums must take place in order for us to maintain a good immune system to fight off any pathogens trying to break us down. We have seen medicine teams evolving, for the purpose of others well being. Vaccines were created to help populations stay alive. Vaccines have been a part of our life for a while now; A vaccine is a product that produces immunity from a disease and can be administered

It is extremely important that people get their vaccines and to get them properly. In order to prevent a disease outbreak around the world, people need to have their vaccines. The three main reasons you need to have the proper vaccines are because vaccines prevent diseases that haven’t went away, they keep your body healthy, and the vaccines are made to prevent a disease that it is designed to prevent. Therefore, it is important that people get the proper vaccines that they need.

In the 16th century, an Italian physician Girolamo Fracastoro discovered that rabies was a fatal disease affecting humans as well as animals, calling it "an incurable wound”. However, it was Louis Pasteur a French biologist that created the first vaccine in 1885 (Wnek, 2009). Rabies is transmitted through the saliva or through the tissue within the central nervous system that is transmitted by an infected mammal to another mammal. Once the mammal is infected either through a bite, scratch or by licking an open infected wound, the virus will begin to attack and destroy the neurological system. In addition other forms of transmission are when infected saliva comes in contact with the eyes, nose and mouth. Dogs are the cause of over 90 percent of human rabies infections. On another note raccoons, bats, skunks and foxes

Louis Pasteur was a French 19th century scientist, chemist, physicist, philosopher, microbiologist, father of pasteurization, and towards the latter part of his career became an immunologist. Though the immune system had barely even been discovered towards the end of the 19th century, Pasteur was able to develop vaccines for chicken cholera, anthrax, and rabies. Though he started out trying to discover what the culprit was to making livestock and dogs sick, he applied this knowledge and new discoveries to infected humans, which resulted in saving many people’s lives towards the turn of the century and even today.