PSY 446 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Edward Jenner, Herd Immunity, Smallpox
5 Feb 2018
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Provides active acquired immunity to a specific disease. Most effective way to fight and eradicate infectious diseases. Teaches body to recognize and destroy infectious diseases. Personal immunity: train body to recognize disease causing organism and destroy it. Herd immunity: higher population that has been vaccinated helps protect those vulnerable; decreases the amount a disease can spread. I(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t for (cid:271)a(cid:271)ies a(cid:374)d the elderly; a(cid:374)yo(cid:374)e (cid:449)ho (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t or is(cid:374)"t (cid:448)a(cid:272)(cid:272)i(cid:374)ated. Smallpox is a highly contagious infectious disease: characterized by disfiguring pustules filled with fluid all over your body. Mortality rate: 3/10 who contracted the disease died. Rates of vaccinations you need to reach in the population. Medical exemption: allowed in all 50 states; if it were harmful to child if vaccinated: e. g. compromised immune system of patient w/ cancee. Religious: allowed in 47 states; requirements differ by states; prove affiliation w/ religious group that is against vaccination. Philosophical belief: allowed in ~18 states; personal belief against vaccination.
