“Vaccines are the most cost-effective healthcare interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life‚ but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare” (Ezekiel Emanuel). Immunizations have revolutionized the world of science ever since they were first discovered. They now are fundamental to people’s survival. The first hope to a vaccine was created by Edward Jenner in 1796. Edward Jenner was the first to give a chance to those living with viral infectious
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Vaccines – A Modern Safety Net (second draft) Seeing that milkmaids‚ who dealt with cows on a daily basis‚ did not contract the rampant‚ and fatal smallpox disease‚ Edward Jenner set out to understand how this could be. Out of scientific curiosity‚ he took some fluid from a cowpox blister and inserted it into an eight-year-old little boy. He then exposed the little boy to the small pox disease a few days later. By exposing the little boy to a less fatal strain of the virus‚ the boy did not contract
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Medical biotechnology is the use of Livni cells and cell materials to produce pharmaceuticals to prevent diseases. Vaccines are the best defense we as humans have agains diseases. Like any other medical products theyvhavebtheir side effects. Vaccines occur when a less harmful ‚inactive form of that pathogen is injected into th human body so that the body may be able to gain acquired immunity. So thatbwhwn the body is attacked with the same virus it is able to fight t off. Onfections are then most
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Vaccinations: Option or Obligation? The concept of vaccination was first invented in 1796 by Edward Jenner‚ the father of immunology‚ who realized that certain people were immune to certain diseases. Further research led scientists to discover that people who were exposed to a strain of cowpox were immune because they already had antibodies that could fend off the strain. This was the genesis of over four hundred years of extensive and successful research. Since their beginning‚ vaccinations have
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| Childhood Inoculations| Is it a decision for government or parents?| | Linda Trostle| 602.4.17-10| | There is much debate regarding the necessity and safety of childhood vaccinations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends a series of vaccinations that include 26 doses of various vaccinations before age 6. Each state regulates and enforces the requirements for childhood vaccinations in the United State. Some parents believe that vaccinations can be harmful
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The first time Edward Jenner heard about smallpox was when he was a young practitioner. He heard a woman that said she was not going to get smallpox because she already had cowpox. At that time it did not make sense‚ but later on did. After he became a physician‚ he founded that smallpox and cowpox were similar because they were diseases derivatives from the same “family.” Time passed and in one of his consultations‚ he went out on the field and during this transition Mr. Jenner observed that some
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What was the impact of smallpox on economics‚ medicine and people in England? Planning: Paragraph 1- Thesis and Introduction What is smallpox? What its biggest impacts? The fall of smallpox. Paragraph 2-4- Points‚ Evidence‚ Explanation Economics Medicine Human Paragraph 5- Conclusion (sum up what I have already said) How big the smallpox was? Smallpox is a serious and contagious disease due to a virus that got thousand millions people killed. It is believed that
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Rabies is a deadly virus that spreads to people via bite from an infected animal. The first vaccine for rabies was invented in 1885 by Louis Pasteur and was first used on Joseph Meister‚ a nine year old boy‚ on July 6th of 1885. -The vaccination for Rabies was made in 1885. -It was discovered and made by a french biologist‚ Louis Pasteur in Marnes-la-Coquette‚ France. -This vaccine came about after biologists created the smallpox vaccine through artificially generating a weaker version of the disease
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Ever since the first known use‚ vaccinations have been used to treat disease and viruses from as early as 1000 AD when the ancient Chinese‚ African and Turkish first started using inoculated technique. Edward Jenner‚ an English physician and scientist‚ created the first smallpox vaccine using a similar disease‚ cowpox‚ which infects cows‚ and is credited for being the influence for the practice of vaccination in the present. For over 200 years Jenner’s innovation was used and updated; as a result
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Vaccine’s A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. “A vaccine is a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases‚ prepared from the causative agent of a disease‚ its products‚ or a synthetic substitute‚ treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.” (Google’s definition) Vaccines contain a little bit of a disease pathogen that is weak or dead. This little bit of the pathogen
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