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1) Vaccination
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Give your readers a comprehensive resource that will allow them to form intelligent opinions on a perennial, hot-button topic. Since the smallpox vaccine was invented in 1796, vaccination has played an essential role in eradicating a number of diseases, including polio, measles, tetanus, and smallpox. Despite its effectiveness at preventing disease outbreaks, vaccination has been met with resistance. It has on rare occasions caused patients to become...
2) Vaccination
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Contemporary vaccination is rooted in centuries of scientific discovery. Some scholars believe that as far back as 1000 CE, Chinese Taoists used variolation (or inoculation) to control the spread of disease. In 1796, Edward Jenner developed a smallpox vaccine that ranks as one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of all time. This book explains how Jenner made his discovery based on the achievements of those who came before him, how vaccination...
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The Vaccination Debate covers the history of vaccine controversies, the 2014 measles outbreak, and the balance between public safety and personal freedoms, studying how an accepted medical treatment has become a contentious issue in US society.
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Vaccination Trepidation is a book discussion segment of the My Style Live Podcast, highlighting a feature with Dr. Kevin Dennis, MD PharmD, by host Char Knight Dennis. Dennis started the podcast in 2020, selecting a new episode, usually a current trending topic, for viewers to listen, watch and discuss each month.
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The once-dreaded scourge of smallpox has been eradicated through barrier immunization. The eminent scientist Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was a pioneer in demonstrating that vaccination was an effective means of preventing smallpox. In the three groundbreaking treatises contained in this volume, originally published between 1798 and 1800, Jenner summarizes his evidence in favor of vaccination and describes individual cases.
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What if they heard every word you said? What if they knew every thought inside your head? What if they put them there? What if they gave everyone a Bio Organic Nano Euphenics Radio Receiver? Did you get yours? How do you know? Brain Chatter, Final Vaccination based on one woman's true life struggle against elitist agendas. Brain Chatter, Final Vaccination by Jeanine London is a menagerie of metaphor, replete with enough twists, turns, and right angles...
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Public Health Reports volume 16
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1901.
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This article reports the institution of a compulsory smallpox vaccination ordinance for the city of Halifax in the spring of 1901, when a small outbreak outside the city prompted city officials to take preparedness action.
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If you think you know how vaccination began - think again - because its dawn is clouded in myth and misrepresentation. Not a 'discovery or an 'invention', vaccination was a development of what had gone before. Man's battle against infectious disease had started in the Far East long ago with strange but effective practices to prevent smallpox. The true process of vaccination was first conceived and performed during 1774 by a yeoman farmer named Benjamin...
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Edward Jenner is a giant of modern medicine. Throughout history, smallpox had plagued humanity with disfigurement, blindness, and death. It was an incurable blight, the suffering of which Jenner helped bring to an end.
Surmising from the immunity of milkmaids that cowpox might be some defence against the ravages of smallpox, in 1793 he took some of the matter from a human case of cowpox and inserted it into the arms of a young boy. To test this,...
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Felix's sister Maya was afraid to go to the doctor for a vaccine. Fortunately, Felix, assisted by Booboo and his magical doctor's bag, helped her get over her fears. Lucky Maya. She got a beautiful princess sticker for her collection.Read this story to find out all the secrets of a medical visit and vaccination.There are eight books in the "Felix and Booboo" series.
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The Great Courses
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2020.
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Focus now on myths surrounding the safety of vaccines, including the mumps-measles-rubella (MMR) vaccine and its false link to autism in children. Because of the unwarranted fear and confusion among parents, this particular myth has led to decreased vaccination rates and the reemergence of serious infectious diseases.
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Antivaxxers are crazy. That is the perception we all gain from the media, the internet, celebrities, and beyond, writes Bernice Hausman in Anti/Vax, but we need to open our eyes and ears so that we can all have a better conversation about vaccine skepticism and its implications.
Hausman argues that the heated debate about vaccinations and whether to get them or not is most often fueled by accusations and vilifications rather than careful attention...
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The Great Courses
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Vaccines are perhaps the single safest and most effective preventive health measure ever devised. In the first of two episodes on this subject, learn the history of vaccination, what types of vaccines doctors use to stave off specific diseases, and why some people still question whether this technique works.
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La vérité sur les pratiques mondiales en matière de santé et de vaccination.
La poule aux œufs d'or.
En matière de santé, il existe un irréductible conflit entre le pasteurisme, qui vise à détruire les microbes, et la médecine traditionnelle de Béchamp et Claude Bernard qui vise à résorber les déséquilibres physiologiques et immunitaires à l'origine de ces mêmes microbes.
L'allégorie du marécage résume bien la situation. Un...
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"Defeating Poliomyelitis: Insights into Epidemiology, Vaccination, and Global Policy" delves into the intricate tapestry of Poliomyelitis, offering a comprehensive exploration of this debilitating disease. Through a lens that merges scientific inquiry with global health imperatives, this treatise embarks on a journey encompassing epidemiological insights, vaccination strategies, and the intricate web of global policies shaping the battle against Polio.Unveiling...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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"In 1994, Peter J. Hotez's nineteen-month-old daughter, Rachel, was diagnosed with autism. Dr. Hotez, a pediatrician-scientist who develops vaccines for neglected tropical diseases affecting the world's poorest people, became troubled by the decades-long rise of the influential anti-vaccine community and their inescapable narrative around childhood vaccines and autism. The alleged link between the two was first espoused in a fraudulent scientific...
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Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear: fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in children's food, mattresses, medicines, and vaccines. Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding the conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss researches what they mean for her own child, her immediate...
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