Vaccination Research Paper

Vaccinations that act through different mechanisms provide methods of best containing viral spread. The significance that comes with vaccinations is understanding the herd mentality that medicine follows. In order to best protect a large population, it is not necessary, and is nearly impossible, to vaccinate all members of that community. However, vaccinations still prove to be effective methods of preventing diseases. This occurs by ensuring that an infected person is most likely to come into contact with a person protected from infection by a vaccination. This is referred to as breaking the chain of infection, as the infection will end with that one infected person without being able to spread through other hosts. In order to determine what
Even with current treatments and vaccinations, an estimated 36,000 people die, and more than 200,000 are hospitalized, each year by the seasonal flu, in just the United States alone (http://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/10-flu-myths). The continued battle against HIV has seen an estimated 36 million deaths worldwide since its discovery in 1981 (http://www.who.int/gho/hiv/epidemic_status/deaths_text/en/). These are just two incidences of the effects viruses have had on human population. The global effect that every strain of virus has had on the population is innumerable. But, how have viruses continued to cause worldwide destruction, despite the attempts at their
The objective of this paper has been to outline the importance and bring attention to the uniqueness of each virus, and the difficulties presented with treating them. The viruses that are prevalent today, may not be tomorrow, only to be replaced by something more threatening. The exploration of the interworking’s of viruses, their genomic makeup, spreading techniques, communicative and hiding capabilities, are essential areas of research that must be explored in order to prevent new global pandemics from occurring, while containing the current global