A vaccine is a substance that is usually injected into a person or animal to protect against disease (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Vaccines help to protect children from multiple diseases; these diseases range from the chicken pox to polio. Vaccines are essential to the control of disease and death. Vaccines help to prevent the diseases from becoming an epidemic throughout the world, by diminishing the amount of contagious diseases.
In the year 1900, the number one disease that cause death was Influenza also known as the Flu. In 1918, Influenza accounted for 5 percent of the deaths in the World(Kliff). Throughout the world Influenza took somewhere between thirty and one hundred fifty thousand lives, in the year of 1918. Now Influenza causes about .0162 percent of the deaths in the World (Kliff). Between 1900 and present day the vaccine against Influenza was created. The vaccine was invented in the 1930’s but was perfected in the 1940’s (Suddath). Ever since the 1930’s Influenza has decreased until now when Influenza causes only 16 deaths out of 100,000 (Kliff). This is a perfect example of how with the use of vaccines has slowly decreased the of a certain disease.
Another example of this life saving tactic is the the invention of the Smallpox vaccine. The Smallpox disease has always played a part throughout history. Smallpox may have been the one of the deadliest diseases throughout history. There has been many cases of Smallpox seeming to have been decimated many times, but has came back and took the lives of many. From the 1500 to even President Lincoln in the year of 1863 Smallpox was a feared disease. Vaccines were created and did help out immensely, but once the disease seemed to be under control, it would pop up again, ...
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...eeds and constraints. Research and development is underway to provide non-syringe delivery mechanisms and thermostable vaccines that will make the vaccines less expensive, more effective and much easier for the manufacturer to deliver. Research will help in achieving the understanding of the adverse effects from vaccines and the ways to avoid them without compromising the product. Safety concerns have shown to cause hesitancy in the use of vaccination. It is important to ensure that everyone receives the safest vaccines. In view of this the Global Vaccine Safety Blueprint “represents an attempt to leverage international commitment and to set out a framework for coordinated action that will raise the level and accuracy of vaccine safety monitoring globally” (Global Vaccine Safety Blueprint, 2012). This blueprint will help monitor and assure the safe use of vaccines.
Illness has been a major part of humankind’s lives almost since the beginning of time. Throughout history, illnesses caused fatal epidemics that caused deaths between young and old, and brought fear upon all for the absence of a cure. Having an illness throughout most of history was considered an inevitable death sentence, as the majority of causes of death (Offit). Vaccinations have been experimented in China and Turkey in the 15th century, with methods such as inhaling or rubbing grounded up smallpox scabs against open cuts (Clem). Then in 1700s, the first form of modern vaccination was invented by Edward Jenner with the cowpox virus acting against smallpox, giving immunity against it (Offit).
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For innumerable centuries, unrelenting strains of disease have ravaged society. From the polio epidemic in the twentieth century to the measles cases in the latter half of the century, such an adverse component of nature has taken the lives of many. In 1796, Edward Jenner discovered that exposure to cowpox could foster immunity against smallpox; through injecting the cowpox into another person’s arm, he founded the revolutionary concept known as a vaccination. While many attribute the eradication of various diseases to vaccines, many United States citizens are progressively beginning to oppose them. Many deludedly thought that Measles had been completely terminated throughout the United States; however, many children have been patronized by
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