Question

Please help me with these questions. Thank you!

1. Summarize the key points the author is making in the book The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin.

2. Discuss how the key points of this book will affect clinical practice in the future. I.e. do the points of this book call for a change in how patients are treated for diseases?

3. Determine how the key points of this book help explain the rise or the continuation of a disease. I.e. do the points of this book help explain how a disease like cholera is still affecting millions of people worldwide?

Answer 1

1The key points in the book "The Panic Virus" is the authors disclosal of a medicine message on vaccination. Vaccinating with MMR (MMR Vaccines) can be a cause of autism in children.This has triggered the society i.e., parents against the government by understanding that the symptoms are similar to mercury poisoning

2.This may affect the future of clinical practice by creating a sense of disbelief on the treatment offered and always a fear when a child is to be vaccinated especially MMR.

Also describes how vaccine opponents have used the mass media and brought a decline of financial gains from the vaccine

3.The key points states that the vaccines prepared for profits either by pharmaceutical company or with the involvement of healthcare providers can rise the chance of many new diseases which further leads to spending money on research to find a medicine for new disease and again a vaccination revolution happens.