Common Childhood Vaccines Vaccinations are the best weapon against disease, at one point in time devastated people around the world. Unfortunately, far too few people are getting them as needed. Immunizations vary in dosages and concentrations for adults and children. In the sake of this paper...

France's Effect on the United States' Flu Shortage In an average year, flu kills 36,000 people and hospitalizes another 114,000, mostly the elderly. The United States is experiencing the worst nationwide shortage of flu vaccine in history, putting young children, the elderly an...

Strangles Prevention Strangles is a highly contagious infection that plagues horses, and it needs to be controlled. The transmission of strangles is very easy, and its effects on horses are very serious. Vaccines should be required for all horses. Measures need to be taken to control the sprea...

Abstract Are we to let concern for the 'rights' of pests cost human lives? The answer is a simple one-no. Animal research, although often the subject of debate is a positive thing. Without it, where would the world be? Tests certainly cannot be done on humans, for what human will...

CURRENT EVENTS: HIV'S ROOTS TRACED TO 1930 Summary Scientists have concluded, based on mathematical research, that the virus that lead to the epidemic of AIDS can be traced all the way back to 1930, somewhere around Central Africa. Bette Korber, of the Los Alamos National Labo...

Scientists have concluded, based on mathematical research, that the virus that lead to the epidemic of AIDS can be traced all the way back to 1930, somewhere around Central Africa. Bette Korber, of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, presented this conclusion at the Conference of Re...

As society continues to benefit from the advances of medical science, people sometimes tend to downplay or forget the devastation that previously uncontrolled diseases visited on the world. One of the most devastating diseases the United States encountered in modern history was Polio. For years peop...

Smallpox Smallpox, which is also called variola, comes in two forms. Variola major is the more deadly form of smallpox killing 30% of victims. Variola minor kills only 1% of victims but leaves the victims very sick. Smallpox is primarily a disease of children or young adults, but older people c...

Smallpox Vaccination Should we or should we not vaccinate for smallpox? That is one of the many questions that have gone unanswered pertaining to the potential war situation with Iraq. I personally believe that the U.S. should be vaccinated for smallpox because it would be one less threat to our...

It seems like now a day there is tragedies, attacks, and new diseases that spring up constantly. Most recently, the American nation is plagued by a deadly epidemic –Anthrax. Anthrax is a topic that is all over the newspapers, magazines, and television, but common people know very little of ...

I am doing a report on the disease Diphtheria. The definition of the disease is a bacterial disease that affects the throat and can cause serious or fatal complications. It is a serious disease caused by the bacterium. There is a lot of history on this disease. In the late 1800's ...

Small Pox Remember having the Chicken Pox when we were little? If you never had Chicken Pox, it consists of having several small bumps that cover the entire body over and over, they itch, some would hurt, and all you would hope for would be for them to go away. Chicken Pox would last an avera...