Guinea and Merck’s Gift to World: A Vaccine for Ebola Christmas may have come early to the West African nation of Guinea; a vaccine developed by Merck and tested on 4‚000 people in Guinea proved 100% effective. Sakoba Keita‚ Ebola response coordinator in Guinea called it Guinea’s gift to the world and it very well might be. Conditions of Testing There are certain medical concerns on the testing methodology. Due to the epidemic nature of the disease and the urgent need for a solution‚ no placebos
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numerous vaccines are primarily envisioned to prevent disease they do not necessarily protect against infection‚ vaccinations has proved to be an efficient way of improving health‚ and it has saved millions of lives. In the United States of America‚ there has been a 99% decline in occurrence for the nine diseases for which vaccines have been suggested for decades. Vaccine safety has gotten more attention than vaccination effectiveness‚ today vaccines have been proven effective and greatest vaccine worries
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challenge doctors and medical advice with home remedies. The argument continues into the 21st century whether or not it should be the parents’ choice to vaccinate their children‚ or if it should be left up to the states or even the federal government (Vaccine Development). In the United States‚ forty seven out of fifty states allow children entering school to be exempt from their vaccinations if they have religious reason. Eighteen out of those forty seven states also allow an exemption for personal or
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The issue of the effectiveness of vaccines has been a long standing debate. Whether vaccines have indeed saved humanity countless times or has been the medium through which companies such as AstraZeneca can instill disease and thus fear unto humans for profit is a controversial topic. The one contributor of society that one would find astonishing to find opposing vaccines is doctors. One such doctor that found‚ in his experience‚ vaccines to be ineffective and arguably harmful is Dr. Harold Moskowitz
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progressed to the development of live attenuated vaccines derived from Salmonella typhimurium (ST) that would offer cross protection to other Salmonella species‚ most notably Salmonella enteritidis (SE)(2‚7). The first live vaccine of this type licensed in the United States was MeganVac 1– a double gene modified ST organism that was designed for protection of broilers through slaughter to reduce Salmonella contamination of carcasses (2). Another vaccine against SE infection has recently received USDA
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Health care has always been a growing industry from discovering new illnesses and new vaccines. I will create a Health Care Hall of Fame Museum. In this museum I will have five exhibits that have changed health care‚ which include: the discovery of germs‚ vaccines‚ surgery‚ childbirth‚ and Medicare. I will give a brief description of each exhibit and their role in health care. Germs Louis Pasteur‚ born in Dole‚ a small town in eastern France had an interest in scientific subjects. In 1847‚ he received
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seven deaths (ProCon.org‚ Children Vaccinations‚ Pro). Children infected with mumps can become permanently deaf. Although a very small number of deaths from the MMR (measles‚ mumps‚ and rubella) vaccine have been reported‚ the most common adverse reactions are minor soreness and or fever. Vaccines can eradicate disease and prevent serious illness and death. Mandatory vaccination has eliminated disease that once killed thousands of children‚ such as polio and smallpox. According to the researchers
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mentioned that the “vaccine was safe and effective for children aged 6 months through 18 years and that evidence suggested that vaccination school-age children would provide benefits to both the vaccinated children and their unvaccinated household and
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prevent it. I didn’t even know that measles can cause brain damage‚ which was an interesting fact I learned from one of the articles I read. What really surprised me was that measles is so contagious‚ and even more‚ that it can be stopped with a single vaccine. I think that scientists have found all the facts we need about measles‚ but there is always more. Instead of researching it further‚ we should enforce vaccination laws in all 50 states and focus on different viruses and diseases. Hopefully‚ the U
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