 
Vinita Rotary Club Bulletin March 17, 2010 |
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1919 Vinita,
Oklahoma District
6110 Club
#2502 www.VinitaRotary.org |
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Rotarian of the Day . . . Dr Ed Allensworth Ed Allensworth was born in Bristow, OK where he
graduated from Bristow High School.
He is a graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma in
Edmond and the University of Oklahoma Medical School
completing his residency and internship at Charity Hospital
in Louisiana. Reba
and Ed married in 1957 and moved to Vinita in 1963 where he
began his medical practice.
They have two sons, Eddy and Roy, and six grandchildren.
He enjoys reading, fishing, travel and hunting and serves as
Medical Director at Craig General Hospital.
He joined Rotary in 2004 and was sponsored by Dan Janis. Ed says that what he enjoys most about Rotary is
the fellowship. |
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Eddy Allensworth Ben Allison |
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Welcome Senior Rotarians Cory Hext Mattie Callahan |
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Public Health officials strongly promote the early and continuing education of the importance of timely childhood immunizations as a strong relevance to the prevention of vaccine-preventable diseases. Polio eradication is a worldwide goal of Rotary International. Locally, we participate in the KICK (Keeping Immunizations Current for Kids) Program, a cost-efficient yet effective way to promote childhood immunizations right here in our own community.
This program is a joint effort among Vinita Rotary Club, Craig County Health Department, and Craig General Hospital to provide immunization information packets to parents of ALL newborns born at our local hospital. The immunization information is provided by the Health Department and vaccine manufacturers, and the Rotary Club provides the plastic folders.
The project is a win-win for all involved. The parents receive vital information related to childhood immunizations, immunization schedules, clinic contact information, and other available community services. Hospital nurses have access to an official immunization record (included in the packet) to document the baby's birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine. This record is retained by the parent and can be used as a permanent record for documentation of all of the child's future immunizations. The plastic folder is a great location to keep all important documents for the hospital staff to send home with the parents and for the parents to retain for future use.
A bright, fun cover sheet is placed in the front of each packet, indicating that the information inside was provided by the local County Health Department as well as the Rotary Club.  |
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"Facts Of the Matter -
Vaccines" In 1796, Edward Jenner, a doctor from Berkley, England, performed the world's first vaccination. A milkmaid claimed she was immune to smallpox because she already had contracted cowpox. Jenner tested her assertions by using fluid from the milkmaid's cowpox lesion to inoculate eight-year-old James Phipps over a series of days. It worked. Today, there are 120 vaccines available to prevent deadly diseases. Before Jenner's vaccination work, smallpox killed an estimated 500 million people. Because of a World Health Organization (WHO) vaccination campaign that began during the 1960's, the last naturally occurring case was in Somalia in 1977. A century ago, 2 out of every 10 children born in the United States died before the age of five, in large part because of infectious diseases such as the measles, diphtheria, whooping cough and polio. The most prolific vaccine developer of the past century was Maurice Hilleman, a microbiologist who was behind 8 of the 14 vaccines used regularly today, including those for measles, mumps, hepatitis A and B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia and influenza. Although he never gained the recognition of Jenner or polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk, Hilleman's measles vaccine alone prevents an estimated one million deaths worldwide every year. Just 60 years ago, polio paralyzed 16,000 Americans annually. In 1952, Salk, head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh, developed the polio vaccine, which led to an 80 percent drop in the number of polio cases in the United States between 1955 and 1957. Since 1985, Rotary's PolioPlus program has engaged more than a million volunteers to help protect more than two billion children from polio in 122 countries. There are now fewer than 2,000 polio cases a year. The immunization rate for all diseases around the world is at a record level, with 106 million infants vaccinated in 2008. ***** Researchers estimate that vaccines prevent 2.5 million child deaths annually. But a funding gap of US$1 billion leaves 24 million impoverished children at risk for preventable diseases. WHO estimated that if 90 percent of the world's children under age five received the vaccines that are common in wealthy nations, another two million deaths a year could be prevented by 2015.
--by Jason Grotto The Rotarian/February/2010 |
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Email: info@vinitarotary.org