Vaccines, antibiotics, and hormones can all be produced using DNA technology.  Vaccines can be made from human cells, animal cells, or from viruses replicated in chicken egg cells.  Antibiotics can be made from fungi, molds, soil bacteria, as well as synthetically.  Hormones can be made from animals, plants, as well as synthetically.

Over the past 50 years the use of vaccines has saved more lives than any other medical advancement.  Vaccines have either eradicated or greatly reduced measles, mumps, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, rubella, chicken pox, and shingles in North America.  Antibiotics when used appropriately have saved millions of lives by treating infections caused by bacteria.  Hormones are widely used in medicine in treatments such as diabetes, women’s menopausal symptoms, infertility and prostate disorders.

 Pertussis (Whooping cough)     Varicella (Chickenpox)

Rubella (German measles)

Since Vaccines successfully prevent many diseases, it is easy for people to forget the devastation a disease can cause.  Because of this people forget about the importance of vaccinations.  For this reason it is important to keep stressing the importance of vaccinations to the public.  Antibiotics save many lives but their effectiveness is in jeopardy due to resistance.  In the future the public will need to become even more aware of when an antibiotic needs to be used.  (Not all bugs need drugs).  Hormones have helped control many conditions and with more research in this area of science there use is  sure to expand.

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