HLTC25H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Smallpox, Poxviridae, Enterovirus
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The image displays pre-vaccine eras morbidity in the us, verus data from 2015, evidently vaccines has vastly reduced the morbidity percentage from these diseases. Vaccines are extremely important and often times because we keep up with vaccines it is hard to see how much they really do until you look at data from before and compare it to the present. Vaccine success is taken for granted because many are unaware of the horrible things we do not experience because of existing vaccines. Classification: enterovirus - this means it enters through small intestines, meaning you can have entrance/exits in and out of the cells lining the intestinal tract. This is how fecal oral transmission occurs. Children would go swimming at pools with friends and sometimes someone from the friends would become paralyzed. This made polio scary because no one would know who would get it. While another level was only leg paralysis.
