Vaccines and Immunization
Vaccines work by reducing the risks of getting a disease by collaborating with the bodys immune system to build a natural defense system against infections. The practice dates back to the 17th century and vaccination in China. Buddhist monks would drink snake venom to build immunity to variolation (Gupta et al., 2016). To immunize against smallpox, a skin tear infected with cowpox would be rubbed against the skin to develop immunity. By the 18th and 19th centuries, systematic mass immunization against smallpox resulted in its eradication in 1979. Advances in medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries led to the development of viral tissue methods and the advent of inactivated polio vaccines and live attenuated oral polio vaccines that are still in use to eradicate...
Today, numerous vaccines are used to prevent more than 20 life-threatening diseases. Vaccines are also used to prevent the spread of infection whenever there is an infection outbreak, such as the
CoviD-19.
Immunization is now a key component of primary healthcare and is acknowledged as an indisputable human right. However, more than 20 million children have limited access to vaccines (Gupta et al., 2016). Despite the strides in global health...
…by reducing the risks of getting a disease by collaborating with the bodys immune system.
By the 18th and 19th centuries, systematic mass immunization against smallpox resulted in its eradication in 1979.
Vaccines are used to prevent the spread of infection whenever there is an infection outbreak, such as the CoviD-19.
Immunization is a key component of primary healthcare and is acknowledged as an indisputable human right.
Concerns about the safety of vaccines have been the core area of resistance and the commercialization of the vaccine manufacture.
The lack of confidence in either the government sources of information on vaccination or…
