Cons Of Vaccinating Children

“Why should I get vaccinated? It is just a waste of time and money. I never got vaccinated before and never will.” That’s what one of my colleagues said when he was asked to get vaccinated during the outbreak of SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, few years ago in Mongolia. Then, I had reasoned him that disease comes all of a sudden and it is more serious than he thinks. As reported on CDC, Centers for Disease Control, 40 percent of all American parents were refusing one or more vaccines for their children (Willrich 3). So it is clearly one of the most significant public health issues today. There are lots of people who hold the belief against vaccination because of several reasons. Even though there is a public notion that vaccine

Death by diseases that can be prevented with the use of childhood vaccinations is becoming more prominent in our society today. With infant and toddler vaccinations being around for centuries this should not be so prominent in today’s society. Childhood vaccinations should be a necessity for all children because they not only protect the child that receives the vaccination but also the children that can’t receive the vaccination for heath and age restrictions. Throughout my research I have found these five articles to be the most helpful to prove my argument in my research paper, “Vaccination greatly reduces disease, disability, death and inequity worldwide”, “Should Any Vaccines Be Required for Children?”, “Immunization in the United States: Recommendations, Barriers, and Measures to Improve Compliance”, “Vaccination: The Best Return on Investment”, and “Vaccinations and childhood type 1 diabetes mellitus: a meta-analysis of observational studies”. With two of the sources being popular articles and three of them being scholarly academic journals the credibility of each source differs. The article titled “Immunization in the United States: Recommendations, Barriers, and Measures to Improve Compliance” is proven to be more credible because it’s use of evidence and logos.

Eighty to ninety percent of the population needs to be vaccinated to prevent the potential spread of a disease (percent depends on the infectiousness of the disease). Another valid reason to vaccinate oneself is to create a secure blanket of immune people to protect the unfortunate individuals without the choice of becoming vaccinated. The strategy of protecting others who have not received vaccinations is called herd immunity, which is a more essential reason to become vaccinated compared to only protecting oneself. Those who cannot receive vaccinations are people that have severe allergic reactions to the preservatives in vaccines and younger children. In a Ted Talk, Romina Libster explains the importance of herd immunity, “People who are

According to nfid.org, in the twentieth century diphtheria, measles, mumps, rubella and Hib killed hundreds of thousands of people. Over the past century there has been a rapid decrease in diseases. Clearly, some diseases have been eradicated because of vaccines. Parents should still vaccinate children for diseases, but first do some research about questionable vaccines, for example, the HPV shot. Undoubtedly, vaccinations should not be eliminated, yet certain ones need to be investigated by parents to confirm that the shot is safe for their child. It should not be highly recommended for children to get all vaccinations open to

Vaccines prevent dangerous and contagious diseases and sickness from wiping out an entire population. For those who don't believe in vaccines, they see vaccines as an unnecessary pain. Schools in the U.S. already require certain vaccinations completed before starting school; For those who refuse the shots, they often opt for home school. We as a “Free Country” can’t force citizens to go out of their ways to pay shots a couple times a year. In addition to the fact that we are a free country, we cannot force someone to receive something that you would necessarily die without. A vaccine would only prevent a particular disease, but if you didn’t have the vaccine and you were to contract that disease, treatment would still be able to save you; Meaning without vaccines, technically, you’ll survive. In essence, the mandation of vaccinations by law can cause plenty of problems that could

Vaccinations first surfaced during the turn of the 19th century. It is currently a law that all school aged children receive a specific list of vaccinations in order to attend a school system of any kind. While the requirements in America are general consistent from state to state, they do vary slightly across one another. Although it is required, there is a list of exemptions that would allow parents to send their children to school without receiving the required immunizations. An example of the exceptions are, medical reasons that would mean the child is not stable enough to receive these vaccinations, or a family that has specific religious beliefs and cannot vaccinate. Those children that are not protected rely on us with able children

has worked on building throughout the years. Herd immunity is the resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results when a high proportion of individuals are immune to a disease. This is important with diseases like Measles, one of the most contagious and lethal of all human diseases which can spread to the brain. One infected person could infect a dozen others as it was seen in, “A measles outbreak that began at Disneyland in California that heightened awareness about the risks of not vaccinating” (“Centers for Disease Control and Prevention” 1). This outbreak could have prevented if everyone or at least ninety five percent of people were vaccinated with two doses to protect those that are unvaccinated. A Measles outbreak had no longer been seen in the U.S. until this incident in 2014, because it circulates primarily in Europe and Southeast Asia. Thanks to the high percentage of those who are vaccinated, the U.S. could only experience such outbreaks if Measles were imported. Not every country has such a high percentage like the U.S. which leads to, “Worldwide, measles still killing around 100,000 children each year” (Hotez 1). Those deaths could be prevented, but this may not be done in the absence of a herd

In 2003 there were two million deaths in children that were prevented because of immunization. This is a huge number; these lives were saved by vaccines. Children who are young and whose immune systems are not fully developed can die of illnesses that we as adults think are routine or not life threatening. What we do know is that if children are not immunized, illnesses like polio, measles, rubella, meningitis, and tetanus to name a few, will indeed return, with the cost being lives. There are also many social and economic risks associated with not immunizing children. It’s not only for their safety but for the safety of those around them. Recently parents have stopped immunizing children because of study

People get vaccinated in order to keep themselves from getting severally sick and to protect others from getting sick. If they get vaccinated it will not spread disease and we would have a better environment to live in. People would then protect themselves and others by getting vaccinated.

The world today is far different from how it used to be 2000 years ago, and 2000 more years from now it will continue to change. Changes come from what we currently have, so we have to decide what we are going to keep and what we want to change. One of the changes that we are going to have to decide is to keep or get rid of vaccines. A vaccination is when a person (normally a nurse) injects you with a small amount of weakened/dead microbes which helps your immune system get used to the disease and help prevent it. There are many benefits to have vaccines available to us, and like everything else in the world; there is a downside to having vaccines. Everyone has different opinions and depending on your perspective of how you see things, and what has happened to you. All of these factors can affect what and how you think of things.

Have you ever wondered why you or anyone else should be vaccinated? In fact, “90% of kids in the United States are fully immunized against ailments that once killed thousands of children each year” (Heusel). In this research paper, you will learn about the most common vaccines that children and/or adults can receive to protect them against harmful diseases. The most common vaccines include influenza, DPT, MMR, and varicella, also known as chickenpox. Vaccinating your kids and yourself is very important to remaining healthy and prevent many serious diseases (Heusel).

Vaccinations occurs when a health provider purposefully administer a virus or a bacteria into the body through injections. Vaccines only contain a small amount of weakened virus. This procedure gets done in order to prepare the bodies immune system for future infections. The immune system can recognize the virus and determine the right tactic to destroy it, before it takes a toll on the body. Exposing the body to a virus can potentially save it from getting harmed from diseases like the whooping cough, chickenpox, influenza, polio, and many more life threatening illnesses. Even with the minor and infrequent side effects from vaccinations, several parents refrain from vaccinating their children. They do not want to put their children’s lives at risk and would rather take the chance with the diseases that may occur without the proper vaccinations. The negative effects of vaccinations are simply too risky for

A number of issues arise from non-vaccinated children; one very important issue is herd immunity or what some may call community immunity. This type of immunity protects those people, children and adults, who can not be vaccinated due to age, poor health conditions or those whom are immune compromised. These are the individuals that rely on the “herd” to be vaccinated to prevent contraction of vaccine-preventable diseases. This means the more individuals who are vaccinate the less likely the disease will spread. Another risk is the protection of future generations. An example of this is the chicken pox vaccination: if a child is vaccinated against the chicken pox virus when young, the chances of the child acquiring Shingle’s Zoster as an adult is dramatically decreased. Vaccinations helps protect an unborn child if the mother is vaccinated prior pregnancy; it prevents the disease from being transferred to the baby while in the womb or during the delivery. Unfortunately due to a decrease in vaccinated children, there has been an increase in measles and pertussis (whopping cough) which were once thought to be eradicated. A reason for the increase in measles and whopping cough is because some parents are choosing to not have their child vaccinated, which allows these diseases to creep back into our society. A Jan. 2008 outbreak of measles in San Diego, CA resulted

Vaccines need to be mandatory to lessen the probabilities of outbreaks and most importantly protect those who are vulnerable to highly contagious diseases. The measles outbreak in Minnesota and many other states were due to unvaccinated people. According to Jacqueline Howard, “There were 70 confirmed cases of measles across the country in 2016, and the majority of people who got measles were unvaccinated, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention” (2017). This clearly shows that unvaccinated people are causing outbreaks and putting themselves in a position that could’ve been prevented if they had gotten vaccinated. Another consequence of non-vaccinating is babies and people with a weak immune system that can’t be vaccinate are at risk of contracting a serious disease. According to Dani-Elle Dubé, “In a Facebook post that has now gone viral, registered nurse Camille Echols document her daughter’s trip to the emergency department after her daughter Ashley —whose immune system is compromised from having a kidney transplant at the age of two — came into contact with another who had chicken pox.” (2017) More people like Ashley, whose immune systems are compromised can be protected by a phenomenon called herd immunity when a certain percent of a community is immunized.

Parent’s of modern America, do any of you remember rubella? The mumps? The whooping cough? Maybe the measles? This short lists of diseases have been long gone thanks to a certain modern medicine called vaccines. However recent studies has shown, there has been a rise of unvaccinated children all over America causing many outbreaks that look similar to ones about a hundred years ago, albeit it being not as big, it can still be very dangerous. The outbreaks are alarming; leaving newborns and toddlers that are not old enough to be vaccinated to be exposed and defenseless to the incurable diseases. The reason why many parents decide not to vaccinate their kids