Category: Vaccination

Every year, the World Health Organization lists their top ten threats to world health. In 2019, the WHO yearly list included air pollution and climate change, noncommunicable diseases, influenza, antimicrobial resistance, and vaccine hesitancy (Ten health issues WHO will tackle this year).Vaccine hesitancy is defined as a delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite…

Introduction Anti vaccine movement is a social movement where anti vaccine activists dissent over the use of vaccine and vaccine activists protest and create awareness about why its a threat to the society. The problems arising from the anti-vaccine movement, where people protest against the use of vaccines and how this movement can result in…

Every year millions die from vaccine-preventable diseases, the majority of which are children. Vaccinations have been around for centuries and as society ages, vaccines improve. There have been increases in the development of new vaccinations and the number of modifications being made on older vaccines. There are seventeen highly recommended vaccines from the CDC, who…

In 2019, the WHO declared vaccine hesitancy as one of the world`s top ten global health threats (WHO, 2019). It was reported that vaccination rates, in Scotland that year, dropped in fourteen of the seventeen immunizations for children under six (Health Scotland, 2019). The reasons behind parental refusal are inherently complex, but many factors (such…

Introduction: Throughout history many outbreaks of diseases occurred to leave behind them millions of dead bodies, some even went so far to taint the health of most of the population. Fear and agony were spreading alongside it, stealing children and loved ones and forcing people to immigrate out of this thought-to-be-cursed land &. I will…

Chickenpox, measles, mumps, hepatitis A/B, polio, shingles, influenza, smallpox, whooping cough, etc. Vaccines are given to help strengthen the bodys immune system which helps fight off diseases or sicknesses that were fatal in the past. Vaccines have recently been said to cause autism, however, without the help of vaccines, fatal diseases would quickly spread and…

Introduction 1. Hook  A. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are about 100,000 children under 2 years old that are not protected against potentially serious vaccine-preventable diseases. (Zimlich) B. Vaccines prevent more than 8,500 child hospitalizations in Colorado, 33,000 deaths in the U.S, and between 2 and 3 million…

Vaccinations: do they really have health benefits? Mandatory childhood vaccinations have been one of the controversial issues in the United States of America and worldwide. The dramatic controversy was even staged by the republicans during the 2016 presidential campaigns, with the republicans questioning the efficacy of mandatory childhood vaccinations. The campaign against vaccinations is not…

Yellow fever is a staggering malady spread by the mosquitos bites (and primates!) is as yet pervasive in Africa, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The yellow fever infection has most likely existed in some form for a large number of years and is believed to have begun in Africa from other similar infections.…

Animal-assisted therapy is a type of therapy that employs animals for motivational and educational purposes, to facilitate treatment and improve social, emotional, or cognitive state of patients. However, there is also a number of scientific works pointing out the gaps in research concerning animal-assisted literature, which are made worse with their methodological weaknesses and the…