In the United States, 1.6 million people die every year from disease. Many diseases are contagious and some arise in weak immune systems. Diseases are the leading cause of death in the United States. There were numerous diseases spreading in the 1900’s and people was dying instantly. Influenza and pneumonia was the main cause of death in the 1900’s which is still present today. Many diseases spread fast and shocked the United States. Scientists and doctors came together to form vaccination shots. Many vaccination shots were introduced to prevent horrifying and transmitting diseases that started being identified in the 1990’s.
Vaccination shots were created to help prevent diseases with babies and future diseases with adults. When babies are born their immune systems are weak and vulnerable to catch disease. Children who are vaccinated are less common to die from an infectious illness. During the 1940, a bad case of tuberculosis was discovered in the U.S and U.K (Brooks). Albert Calmette, a famous French bacteriologist, found the vaccination for tuberculosis. Thirty years later, the death from tuberculosis drop down 75 percent in the U.S. and U.K together (Brooks). Albert Calmette vaccine shot was a huge success in saving people life. Scientists and doctors did not vaccinated babies at this time because the shot may have been too powerful for babies. Two years, later babies started catching tuberculosis because adults were spreading the disease (Brooks) .Due to babies catching multiple diseases, vaccination shots are introduced to babies after birth. Doctors have tested vaccine shots over the years. The test result validated that vaccine shot is very effective with preventing diseases. Over 50 years ago, a case of the diseases measles was found(Sachs). There were 500,000 cases of the dangerous measles diseases(Sachs). A year after discovering the disease, vaccine shots were made to prevent measles (Sachs). Eight years later, the measles disease case drop down to 32,000 cases(Sachs). The number of measles disease drops every single year due to the founding of the measles vaccine shot. The number shocked humans and made a big increase of the number of people who started vaccinating. If babies are vaccinated for measles, it is very rare to catch the case of measles. Vaccine shots are proven to strengthen the immune
The effectiveness of vaccinations continues to be proven (Malone and Hinaman n.d.). For example, after development of the measles vaccine and the implementation of the vaccination program, the number of reported measles cases declined from 57,345 in 1977 to 2587 in 1984( CDC 2010 ). However, even though vaccinations have been proven safe and effective; there are still risks as well as the implication that not every person who is vaccinated will obtain immunity. That being said, serious damage from vaccination is a rare occurrence (Malone and Hinaman). A Glanz study (2013) from the Vaccin...
The influenza or flu pandemic of 1918 to 1919, the deadliest in modern history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide–about one-third of the planet’s population at the time–and estimates place the number of victims anywhere from 25 to 100 million. More than 25 percent of the U.S. population became sick, and some 675,000 Americans died during the pandemic. The 1918 flu was first observed in Europe, the U.S. and parts of Asia before swiftly spreading around the world. Surprisingly, many flu victims were young, otherwise healthy adults. At the time, there were no effective drugs or vaccines to treat this killer flu strain or prevent its spread. In the U.S., citizens were ordered to wear masks, and schools, theaters and other public
The rail market continued to grow and by the 1860’s all major cities within the United States were connected by rail. The main diseases that showed the most virulence during the time were cholera, yellow fever and consumption, now known as tuberculosis. The 9th census mortality data showed that 1 out 7 deaths from disease were caused by tuberculosis and 1 out of 24 disease deaths were resulting from cholera. . Until the 1870s the general consensus of the spread of disease through population was still the primitive idea that it came from the individual and not specifically the pathogen.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Vaccines have been used to prevent diseases for centuries, and have saved countless lives of children and adults. The smallpox vaccine was invented as early as 1796, and since then the use of vaccines has continued to protect us from countless life threatening diseases such as polio, measles, and pertussis. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2010) assures that vaccines are extensively tested by scientist to make sure they are effective and safe, and must receive the approval of the Food and Drug Administration before being used. “Perhaps the greatest success story in public health is the reduction of infectious diseases due to the use of vaccines” (CDC, 2010). Routine immunization has eliminated smallpox from the globe and led to the near removal of wild polio virus. Vaccines have reduced some preventable infectious diseases to an all-time low, and now few people experience the devastating effects of measles, pertussis, and other illnesses.
The idea behind vaccines is to provide the body with just enough of the disease-causing substance to trick the body into producing antibodies against it. By injecting weak or dead infectious agents through the skin, it’s believed that the body will create the appropriate immune defense. Infants come into the world with antibodies they have gotten from their mother through the placenta. Infants who are breastfed continue to receive many important antibodies in the colostrum (the thick, yellowish premilk that is secreted during the first few days after a woman gives birth) and breast milk. During the first year of life, the immunity an infant gets from its mother at birth wears off. To help boost the fading ability to fight certain diseases, vaccines are given. Once the antibodies are produced, they stay around, protecting the child against the disease they were designed to fight.
Just as breast cancer is killing our African American women, heart disease is also one of the major diseases killing our women. Heart disease is one of the nation’s leading causes of death in both woman and men. About 600,000 people die of heart disease in the United States (Americas heart disease burden, 2013). Some facts about heart disease are every year about 935,000 Americans have a heart attack. Of these, 610,000 are a first heart attack victim. 325,000 happen in people who have already had a heart attack. Also coronary heart disease alone costs the United States $108.9 billion each year. This total includes the cost of health care services, medications, and loss of productivity. Deaths of heart disease in the United States back in 2008 killed about 24.5% of African Americans.
is published to prove this theory. Vaccinations are important to stop the spread of childhood disease
There were other factors that indicate the way they die, it came from factories that they were working, and from those companies, the chemicals and pollution, the higher population density, in fact, because of this, you will have more contagious diseases. Furthermore, cold weather. Also, the discriminatory from there masters, produces a stress environment that can lead to a sickness for any human being.
By being vaccinated, the person is not only helping themselves but others around them too. Vaccines are an important tool for preventing disease and should be mandatory for all people. Childhood vaccines protect children from a variety of serious or possibly fatal diseases, including diphtheria, measles, meningitis, polio, tetanus, and whooping cough (Clinic Staff). By vaccinating children against diseases, it helps children grow into strong, healthy adults. Today, children in the United States continuously get vaccines that protect them from more than a dozen diseases (Childhood Immunization).
Children are no longer vaccinated against smallpox because it no longer exists due to vaccinations. The last cases of smallpox in the United States were in 1984, and in the world was 1977 in Somalia. (Vaccines 5). Each year numbers of cases and deaths decrease, because of vaccinations. In the United States by 2012 most diseases were decreased by 99% because of vaccinations. (Vaccines 5). Getting children vaccinated helps protect them from diseases and helps elimate the disease from harming other people. The more people get vaccinated the more of a chance the diseases will no longer be a problem. For example smallpox was eradicated and children no longer have to be vaccinated for it, if people get their children vaccinated there is more of a chance that anothor disease will be eradicated.
The contributions of several doctors, researchers, and scientists helped improve the health of the growing population. In 1850 the average life expectancy was 42 years. By 1910 the average life expectancy had risen to nearly 55 years. Between 1850 and 1910 there were several advances in the medical field. The introduction of genes, white blood cells, blood groups, insulin, rubber gloves, aspirin, and vitamins and the discoveries of Pasteur, Charcot, Halsted, Zirm, Lister, and Koch were the starting point of an international fight against disease.
In 1978, the U.S. Public Health Service started vaccinating for measles. All school age children were vaccinated. Two years later the measles virus occurring went down 99 percent. Now days, measles is very rare and all children are vaccinated for it. Measles Measles is a highly contagious disease.
Vaccinations are not as dangerous as people make them seem, but not getting vaccinated is. Frances Childs states that “as the number of children who have not been immunized increases, so, too, does the likelihood of measles spreading”. Immunizations work by injecting a small amount of the virus into the patient (both children and adults). The patient’s immune system then builds up antibodies to fight against the virus, thus building immunity against the disease much more effectively. Vaccinations have a 90-100 percent chance of success.
While vaccines will help each individual, it will also contribute to the future health of the generations to come. In the US, vaccines have reduced or eliminated many infectious diseases that once routinely killed or harmed many infants, children, and adults. That effect is greatly caused by the fact that more and more people are choosing to get vaccinated. Vaccines have eradicated Polio and smallpox along with other diseases. The last case of smallpox in the United States was in 1948; the last case in the world was 1977 in Somalia. Due to these eradicated diseases, there is no need to vaccinate against them. However, keeping up with the latest vaccinations, decreases the risks of those diseases to ever reappear. The CDC notes that many vaccine-preventable diseases are still in the United States or "only a plane ride away." Although the paralytic form of polio has largely disappeared thanks to vaccination, the virus still exists in countries like Pakistan(“ProCon.org".) Those who choose not to vaccinate are not only risking their lives but the lives of their young children and the elderly. There are some people who are not able to get vaccinated, due to specific medical conditions or age. These people rely heavily on “herd immunity”. Herd immunity means that when a "critical portion" of a population is vaccinated against a contagious disease, it
mostly children, and in the first half of the 20th century the epidemics of polio