Vaccines Are Promising Methods For Disease Prevention

The Disease of Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa Malaria has become a common name throughout the world. While significant efforts have been made since antimalarial treatments in the 1940’s, the disease still continues as an endemic around the globe. Malaria is a global public health issue, with epidemiological methods of tracking patterns, causes, and effects of health outcomes to continuously work toward protecting and saving lives. While current interventions have impacted the rates of malaria, advances

Unfortunately, HPV is considered to be the most common type of sexually transmitted infection. Like all STIs, HPV spread through sexual contact with an infected person, whether it be vaginal, anal, or oral sex. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are about 79 million Americans infected with HPV at a time and about 14 million new cases arise every year (“Human Papillomavirus (HPV)”). This means that about one in four people are infected with some type

Although there is a number of therapeutic vaccines which successfully aids in inducing immune responses particular to HCV, there is no complete vaccine that prevents HCV infection or lowers the viral concentration. Hence, the research for HCV infection focuses on developing various vaccines for HCV. The ideal HCV vaccine should extract and contain several features such as a high titer and long lasting, and widespread anti-envelope antibodies that can acknowledge and neutralize epitopes. Additionally

Introduction Vaccine development is an old and complicated process, often requires more than a decade to complete. The modern system of vaccine development, regulation and testing was developed during the 20th century. To engender a vaccine mediated immunization or protection has been a major challenge. Presently available vaccines work primarily through the induction of the antigen specific antibodies. The effectiveness of any vaccine is determined by the quality of the antibodies, as their work

attempted to immunize individuals against smallpox by inserting powdered smallpox scabs, or fluid from the pustules, into superficial scratches made in the skin. The patients would experience a mild version of the illness, and then immunity. This method is known as variolation or inoculation. It was introduced to Europe and North America in the 1720’s and around 1738 it started to gain widespread recognition. Although it was a momentous medical breakthrough, inoculation was still widely criticized

unborn children. Is there enough being done to eradicate this disease in Africa, and will the cost of these treatments limit those who do not have the available income to afford these drugs? Scientist and researchers have worked over the years to find a cure or vaccine for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, but it remains the most incurable infection in the world. “There are several promising drug therapies now becoming available which are far too expensive

KALU AGBAEZE Nov 4th , 2010 Dr. WADE JENNIFER Biosec 134-3735 MALARIA; VACCINES AND ITS DEVELOPMENT Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite called Plasmodium according to researches done by Center for Disease and Control. It is transmitted by mosquito bites and it is of major public health challenge in developing countries. It disproportionately affects poor people. Majority of malaria cases occur in the poorest countries of the world. (1). The journal, “The Great Killers; Malaria” compared

Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection disease caused by the organism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Mtb is an airborne transmission disease, which is spread by the inhalation of small droplet from the infected individual with pulmonary (lung) TB to a non-infected individual. TB has different stages of infections but the major one are active and latent stage. Normally tuberculosis stays dormant inside the granuloma in the host without causing any illness but in 10% in cases

Everyone listen up, it is now time to take caution. A virus has re-emerged and is spreading fast. We first saw a case like this in 1994 where well-known horse trainer, Vic Rail died after 6 days and experienced severe lung inflammation, interstitial pneumonia and respiratory failure (Grant,2013). 14 of his horses also died when it broke out not far from here, in fact Hendra and now it has come back to haunt us with its lethality (Betterhealth.vic.gov.au, 2015).The emergence in humans was unprecedented

social effects of the counterculture, there were also several notable effects of the movement on the medical field. While some of these new medical developments, such as the growth of recreational drug use and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, proved to be a setback for society, others would end up paving the way for further developments in modern medicine. The 1960s advancements in transplants, vaccinations, cancer treatments, and emergency procedure have proven to be timeless to the