Why a Vaccine Would Be the Best Way to Stop Further Spread

National Research Council mentioned that vaccines are more effective than quarantines during an outbreak of pandemics. Using them is the best way to stop the further spread of any infectious diseases in epidemics.

We can see how immunisation programs in several parts of the world have wiped out fatal diseases like polio, seasonal flu, smallpox, Spanish-flu, and many others. Some of the vaccines are given only once in a lifetime, but some of them are given more than once, like for seasonal flu. In fact, few of them are given only when needed, such as for pneumonia and shingles.

Researchers said that vaccines work as weapons used against epidemic outbreaks to prevent people from catching the virus.

What are vaccines?

It is a biological combination prepared to improve the immunity to protect a person from a particular disease. It contains an agent that looks like a disease-causing microorganism but works to weaken or kill those microbes or the toxins it contains. The agent works as a stimulator of the body's immune system that helps in recognising the foreign microorganism. The immune system can then easily destroy and remember it so that the microorganism can be killed again when found later.

Vaccinated bodies produce antibodies that compensate a disease-causing bacteria or virus on its own. They're now then not prone to infected diseases and transmission won't affect them. Moreover, there's another process known as "Herd Immunity," for those who don't get the vaccines for themselves. It is noticed, the higher the rate of vaccinated people found in the community, the lower the rate of infected persons. Lesser people who haven't been vaccinated yet can still be exposed to an infectious individual, which leads to either cure or death.

Why we're talking about vaccines?

In 2019, the new virus named “Coronavirus” infected the air we are still breathing in. It's spreading through the infected people. For instance, if an infected person is sneezing without covering their mouth, the virus will stay there in the air or at any surfaces like the buttons of an elevator, doorknobs, spoons, and wherever it has dropped. The spread's continuation of this virus prompts governments to take steps officially and to announce a quarantine schedule as a preventative measure to stop the further spread.

There's no vaccination made to control the spread of this disease to date. World Health Organisation has announced, it takes a year or more to develop a vaccine for it, as it's new to us and for researchers. More than thousands of people have died globally due to coronavirus, and we still don't know how many of us will get infected by it. This condition has now declared as a pandemic outbreak worldwide.

What is coronavirus and what are its effects?

Coronavirus belongs to a family of seven viruses, out of which it's the third one. The other four members are still unknown to medical records and scientists. These viruses are usually found in wild animals, but now it has made a jump to humans. It's a respiratory illness, which has symptoms like the common cold.

The past two families are named as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). The SARS swept around the world in 2002, this virus was found in bats and then in humans. It aroused in China due to raw flesh eating. That virus also infected thousands of people but it soon ended, because most of the infected people were had serious symptoms, which made easier for doctors to detect it and control the further spread. On the other hand coronavirus is different and it even has asymptomatic patients where doctors wouldn't know if the person is infected until they get the symptoms.

How We Can Control This Coronavirus Pandemic?

We can only control this through the vaccine, which is not made to this date. WHO and CDC have confirmed this that they're giving their best to develop a vaccine soon, but it takes minimum a year. Another way to control this pandemic outbreak is to stay at home and take care of yourself by using precautionary measures. Some of the measures are enlisted below, take a sneak peek:

• Wear masks
• Wash your hands often
• Don't use plastic bags
• Cover your hands with gloves
• Stop touching surfaces unnecessarily
• Sanitize your hands quickly
• Take baths with warm water
• Take steams
• Do proper medication (if you're having symptoms of the common cold)
• Strengthen your immunity system in-taking Vitamin C
• Drink lemon or orange juices or eat citrus fruits

How did this outbreak started?

According to the researchers, the common source of this virus is believed to be a "wet market" located in Wuhan. This market is a huge one, which sells both dead and live animals, birds, and fishes. Such markets are the reason for not only spreading the coronavirus but also the spread of other viruses, like Ebola, HIV, and rabies. These markets should maintain the high standards of hygiene, which is not that difficult if live animals are butchered somewhere else. Typically, they're also quite congested that makes it even easier to spread a virus from person to person.

The first suspect of coronavirus was a 60 years old man living in Wuhan, who even infected his wife. The source of coronavirus is still unknown but it's expected that the source of this virus could be bats or raw meat of any other animal. People of China are eating bats since a very long time and not only bats, they're consume monkeys, and other wild animals. These are causing them harm and diseases like coronavirus, which are further spreading to worldwide, which needs to stop.

How we can compare this epidemic outbreak to other past respiratory illnesses?

The other breaks are quite different from this COVID-19 because the basic reason is that coronavirus is also asymptomatic. Other respiratory illnesses had critical symptoms which is why doctors had no issues in controlling them. There are some past outbreaks are enlisted below to encounter the differences:

1918 Spanish Influenza

This one is still known as one of the worst pandemic ever, the most devastating flu in modern history. This influenza caused by the H1N1 virus, which destroyed the respiratory tract of an infected person. It was also an airborne disease, which swept around the globe and caused millions of deaths.

2009 Swine Flu

It's known as a family of that same influenza outbreak. It killed millions of people as well. It affected the respiratory tract and caused severe chest congestion.
Other influenza outbreaks include Asian flu and Hong Kong flu, occurred in 1957, caused roughly two million deaths.

Final words

The answer to why the vaccines would be the best way to stop the further spread is quite logical, it's not only the best way but might also be the only way to stop further spread. Human to human contact can be stopped due to quarantine but it won't stop the spread of the disease is airborne, which means we do need a vaccine to end this fatal virus.

Quarantine might lower down the number of infected people and the ratio of deaths, but it won't end the pandemic so soon. WHO and CDC said, to control the further spread, it's good to stay at your homes and be safe. They also acknowledged us that it won't end the virus but prevent its rapid spread.

Make sure that you're not going out unnecessarily. If you're stepping out for any important reason, ensure wearing a mask as it's mandatory to cover your nose and mouth. Also, avoid touching public used surfaces without wearing gloves. COVID-19 is not alike other influenza but have shared symptoms. Until the vaccine is in making, the best way to control its spread is to be safe at home and taking care of yourself.

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