Medical Terminology: Immunity And Vaccines

Although the negative claims behind anti-immunization stances are deceptive and discredited, some parents find it difficult to accept that vaccines are necessary and safe. Many of these reasons are due to personal or religious beliefs that have persuaded parents to bypass immunizations for their children. Consequently, health officials are seeing disquieting rises of diseases that are easily preventable. The CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) has reported hundreds of measles cases in the United States in 2011, the largest number in 15 years (Ben-Joseph, Elana). Essentially, almost all of these cases were in individuals who had not received a vaccine shot. Also found in the article was that a great amount of the quarrel over the shots comes from a 1998 study that tried to connect autism to a type of vaccine that defends against measles. However, there has been no scientific evidence that a vaccine or a combination of any of the shots induces autism. Undoubtedly, the doctor that wrote the article, calling vaccines a “deliberate fraud” ,lost his license for not submitting any evidence of his claim and causing people to neglect shots for that year. Sadly, due to that article, 1 in 4 parents still believe that vaccines are

Diseases and illnesses are studied constantly by doctors and scientists trying to find a cure for them. Plague and disease once ravaged our world killing thousands, with no hope or cure to prevent them from occurring. Today, however, is different. Technology is more advanced than ever, and people are living longer than ever before. Life expectancy in the United States has gone up by more than 30 years in the last decades. It isn’t by luck that many diseases now cease to exist, but through extensive studies, and research. The medical field is at the height of its studies with more people being cured of diseases than ever before. Most of this is to the credit of doctors and scientists developing vaccinations that help the body create antibodies, which help fight away diseases, and give the body immunity. I believe that forced vaccinations in children should be mandatory as they have the potential to prevent life threatening diseases, and save countless lives. Though many are against forced vaccinations and say they can cause mental illnesses or brain damage, this has not been proven. The rewards far out way the slight risk, if risk at all of the vaccination having side effects. The individuals who are not vaccinated are left vulnerable to illness, and can potentially infect those around them as well. Leaving scare of an epidemic, and wide spread of a virus. Forced vaccinations in the United States have been beneficial by preventing young children from contracting certain

Finally, most diseases which prevented by vaccines are no longer common. If vaccines were not used, few cases could rapidly turn into tens of thousands. My recommendation is to stop spreading diseases and save millions of children by having them

Many people who are a part of the mandated vaccine debate are wondering, what would happen if more and more people stopped vaccinating their children. This actually happened in Japan in the late 1900s. The CDC report “What Would Happen If We Stopped Vaccinations?” states that “[in] 1974, about 80% of Japanese children were getting pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine” (“What Would Happen”). There were 393 cases of whooping-cough reported and zero deaths. Ten years later, the amount of children vaccinated dropped to 10%. That year 13,000 cases of whooping-cough were reported and 41 deaths. Soon people started to vaccinate their children and the number of deaths dropped (“What Would Happen”). These deaths could have been prevented if their

Vaccines are important for the wellness of America. Without these vaccinations people will fall ill very quickly. Getting vaccinated is safe, not only help you but people around you! Without being vaccinated deadly diseases will appear once again from the past that we tried so hard to cure.

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

According to the Centers for Disease Control, “732,000 American children were saved from death and 322 million cases of childhood illnesses were prevented between 1994 and 2014 due to vaccination” (“Should Vaccines Be Required”). If vaccines were never invented, then people would die from many diseases because of the serious symptoms that each disease presents. Every disease is different and presents its own set of symptoms and levels of seriousness. Doctors and medical researchers have not yet discovered cures for these diseases, so being vaccinated as a preventative measure is the safest and smartest thing that a person could do. It is better to be protected from getting a disease than getting it and dealing with it until it either goes away on its own or kills

Vaccines are part of preventive health and protect us from disease. If we get vaccinated, we can help protect those who can't. One study found that a child has a 35 times more chance of getting measles, if they don't vaccinate (Lemmons 185). In the U.S., vaccines have decreased or terminated many infectious diseases that once killed or hurt many people (Vaccination). If we do not vaccinate, it will leave people unprotected and susceptible to disease.

Huge outbreaks like polio,measles, and the chicken pox diseases that have killed millions of children and adults no longer occur due to breakthroughs with vaccines. Children start to be vaccinated by the age of two until they are an adult, preventing theses diseases and many other vaccine preventable diseases.There are some who choose not to vaccinate their children or themselves, risking the health of the public.Refusing to vaccinate can cause many problems and risk for a child or an adult they take the risk of getting sick and possibly getting another person sick.Vaccinations should be mandated to prevent children and adults from getting vaccine preventable diseases and sickness.

A major benefit of vaccinating children is that the whole population exploits from this. If children are vaccinated, they become immune to whatever disease the vaccine protects against for example, measles. Thus, if someone were to have measles, whoever is immune would not contract it. If the population was not immune to easily preventable illnesses such as smallpox and diphtheria, then epidemics could erupt, killing most of the population. This has been proven to be true in the history of America. Once the Europeans came over the America, they had already formed a resistance to smallpox. However, the Native Americans had never been exposed to those diseases found in civilizations. Once the Europeans came in contact with the Native Americans, entire tribes would become extinct due to their immune systems not forming antibodies that could fight against diseases from Europe. This still happens to somewhat the case today. This can be demonstrated “in 2011,” when “49 US states did not meet the 92-94% herd immunity threshold for pertussis (whooping cough), resulting in a 2012 outbreak that sickened 42,000 people and was the biggest outbreak since 1955” (Too Many Children Go Unvaccinated). Even though entire populations are not being eradicated

There are mountains of evidence that suggest vaccinations are much needed and well worth the risk in order to protect oneself. Thus, there should be some sort of intervention that mandates vaccines for everyone. It in fact is more dangerous to not get vaccinated. According to David M. Perry, an associate professor at dominican university, an information database currently aimed to track the effects of the anti-vaccine movement has cited over 100,000 cases of preventable illnesses and 1,000 cases of preventable deaths in the past fifty years. (“The Anti-Vaccine”). 100,00 cases of preventable illness is not a number to be scoffed at. According to this research had the anti-vaccine movement not existed this number would be zero. Due to people believing that vaccines cause more harm than good we are seeing these astronomical numbers of diseases that should not exist in the first place. The fact is that vaccines are well worth the risks they pose especially since the alternative to the possible side effects is preventable and possibly previously eradicated disease. Some of these preventable diseases include deadly ones as seen in the 1,000 people who have died because of this dangerous movement. If the options are between getting a vaccine and potentially dying the obvious right answer is facing the needle. In addition to being great at preventing preventable

If parents were to stop vaccinating their children then outbreaks of diseases would start happening again. For example, Japan’s citizens stopped giving their children the whooping cough vaccines because false rumors that the vaccine causes illness spread across the country. In 1975, only ten percent of Japan’s infants received the vaccine; because of this over thirteen-thousand cases of pertussis ( whooping cough) appeared and over forty-one deaths occurred (CDC). if Japan would have made the pertussis vaccine mandatory then the amount of whooping cough cases would have decreased because the parents would have continued to give their children the vaccine and then the forty-one children most likely would not have died. America should make vaccines mandatory before the parents of the U.S stop vaccinating their kids and outbreaks start to occur. If everyone were properly vaccinated than medical officials could eradicate detrimental diseases. It is estimated that because smallpox was eradicated that five million lives are saved a year. (UNICEF) Polio is on its way to being eradicated with eighty-percent of the world being vaccinated. (CDC) If vaccines are mandatory then everybody will be vaccinated which will lead to complete elimination of the disease. If the vaccines are administered properly to everyone on earth, than sixteen million lives would be saved in this year alone. By expunging theses diseases, we are

Vaccinations are an incredible innovation, and without them, our world would be quite different. These lifesaving inventions have always been quite controversial, and without knowing what they are fully capable of, some people and governments won't take any further actions to get vaccinations to people who are in need. For example, in India, the government is very detached from the issue, and hasn't invested in the heavily needed vaccines for its people. Especially the children, as one third of the children unvaccinated in the entire world reside in India. Also, Recent events in countries have drastically impacted how many people receive vaccines. As in the Central African Republic, the country has been in a fuming ongoing civil war that has killed over 6,000 people from its upbringing in 2012. People in the Central African Republic have been displaced, and are in desperate need other things, such as food or water. The longer a person goes without a vaccine, the higher the chance is of contracting a disease or virus. In Nigeria alone, “the national data showed less than 30% coverage for all antigens, and this decreased to 12.9% [in] 2003” (NCBI). Vaccines are a significant problem today because people are very uneducated about them.

If more people are vaccinated, less people are capable of carrying and transferring a virus to the unvaccinated. Extremely young children cannot receive immunity until a certain age. Herd immunity can eventually lead to the eradication of a disease. Smallpox, rinderpest, and polio have been eliminated from the United States! If everyone didn’t get vaccinated, we would still be fighting these diseases today (PLOTKIN).