Do you or anyone you know have children? If so, are they vaccinated? When you have a child your first big decision about your child’s health is whether you should vaccinate them or not. Educate yourself. Do not make a decision regarding your child’s health not knowing what you are doing. When you get a vaccination, you are getting the disease that you are getting vaccinated for injected into your body, it is just dead. This way if you ever contract the virus your body has been exposed to it and knows how to fight it off. “Through vaccination, children can develop immunity without suffering from the actual diseases that vaccines prevent (Vaccines and Immunizations).” There are several reasons why getting your child vaccinated is the best choice. The number one reason being, a simple set of vaccinations could save your child’s life. People will argue and say that getting your children vaccinated is the worst thing you could do for them. Some vaccines can cause side effects, but so can taking an aspirin. These side effects are very minor and can be anything from a headache to dizziness. Some children do not feel the side effects at all. It varies from person to person. Do not take the risk of your child getting sick and get your child vaccinated. Now that you know what vaccinations are, let’s see what types of vaccines are available. There are many types of vaccinations but these are just a few examples. There is the MMR vaccine which is for chickenpox and
The various diseases for the cure for vaccinations are vastly differentiated. Many of the diseases have proven to be mild and in most cases deemed harmless, except in situational cases. It is difficult to substantiate taking the risk with any vaccinations when the risks are minimized. Alternatively some of these diseases today are just about extinct or declared rare by researchers. If your children are at a risk to being exposed to any of these diseases the chances are possibly 0%, that a vaccine can offer any additional protections. (Belkin 1999)
Vaccinations; it’s an intimidating word. Imagine your child being stabbed with needles containing diseases just because your pediatrician said it helps. While a good portion of the audience here today can understand this issue, my question is why are vaccinations such a problem? More specifically, what are the altercations of religious exemptions to vaccines? While it seems to be a personal issue, the choice to or not to vaccinate affects the lives of everyone in your community. All I ask is that you keep an open mind and listen to the information I will present today in hopes that you will better understand vaccinations and the necessity for mandatory vaccination.
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Imagine traveling to the “Happiest Place on Earth”, Disneyland, with your family. While you are there a person that has not been vaccinated is walking around with the measles virus in their system. While that person shows no signs or symptoms of the measles, they are infecting others that haven’t been vaccinated, due to young age or other purposes. Now what turned out to be many people’s family vacations is now a life-threatening situation for some. This type of outbreak actually occurred during December of 2014, where 40 Californians were exposed to the measles at Disneyland and 91 additional cases of the outbreak strain also occurred from the people exposed affecting others (Blumberg et al, 2015). Outbreaks likes this can potentially be
A wise Welsh man once said, “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.” But, can that also be said about immunizations? According to the Medilexicon medical dictionary, “an immunization is the action of making a person or animal immune to infection, typically by inoculation.” The Merriam-Webster Dictionary provides a more technical definition of immunizations by defining them as “the creation of immunity usually against a particular disease, treatment (as by vaccination) of an organism for the purpose of making it immune to a particular pathogen.” Most people feel that immunizations are a very important part of a health care regimen and should be mandatory for the majority of individuals. But over the past several years, questions have
Smallpox and measles and mumps, oh my. These diseases we thought we had terminated when vaccines were invented are making a comeback due to parents not vaccinating their young children. Vaccination started as early as the 1800s with smallpox, and as the disease began to decline, the government’s vaccination policies declined as well. As that series of events occurred, parents have decided vaccinating their children is not necessary, leading to the deadly return of these diseases. The government mandating childhood vaccinations is vital to the Nation’s well-being to ensure proper health and safety from diseases such as smallpox, influenza, and human papilloma virus.
Once said,”Don’t let your fear of what cou happen make nothing happen.”Is clearly What is occurring on thought of getting vaccinated. The fear is caused because what it could do to humans. People Afraid they're putting themselves or loved one at risk when they get vaccinated. The truth is, it is the other way around. Vaccines go through years of testing to justify their safety before going into the human body. Vaccines save lives and only have minor side effects that cause no real harm. The cheaper to pay to get vaccinated then to treat a disease. Although there are many stories or myths out on the internet that can prove this wrong, But if you do your research with trusted websites vaccinations are harmless and everyone should be vaccinated. vaccines will protect people and
The Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the virus responsible for cervical cancer. It is one the most common viral sexually transmitted infections. A vaccine was approved in 2006 that is effective in preventing the types of HPV responsible for 70% of cervical cancers and 90% of genital warts. Proposals for routine and mandatory HPV vaccination of girls have become sources of controversy for parents of school-aged youth, legislators, members of the medical community, and the public at large (Cooper et al. 2010).
“If your child is vaccinated, why are you worried about them catching anything from my child?” (“Why Worry” 1) The answer to this is simple, vaccines are never 100% effective. Even vaccinated children are at risk, not just the unvaccinated. When more people opt out of vaccines they make that risk so much larger. Children should be vaccinated because the unvaccinated children could bring back deadly disease, risk exposing others, including those who are vaccinated, and the potentially fatal complications that could easily be avoided.
Millions of lives have been saved thanks to a global effort to vaccinate for deadly diseases. Peter Yeo reports “Immunizations have saved more children than any other medical intervention in the last 50 years” (Reforming the U.N. 118). Yet, a new trend for parents is opting out of vaccinating their children for personal beliefs or religious exemptions. Although, the majority of Americans believe vaccines protect children, and conclusive evidence has proven vaccines can prevent the spread of deadly diseases. Still, a few parents believe vaccinating children is not essential for their health, additionally, they believe an increase in mandatory vaccines has insufficient scientific research to prevent serious medical side effects.
One of the risks of choosing to not vaccinate your child is that it doesn’t just affect their health; it potentially affects the health of those around them. For example, say your child does contract a disease such as measles and is in daycare or at the hospital being treated for it. In that time your child could potentially spread the disease to other children that are either unprotected because they aren’t old enough to receive the vaccine yet, or have compromised immune systems due to something such as cancer or someone suffering from kidney failure and they are unable to receive any live vaccines, or children who have received the vaccine and still have a low immunity against the disease. Choosing to vaccinate your child will protect people around your child, and that’s the ultimate goal with vaccines is to protect the health of the general public.
By vaccinating your children, it will cause a decline in disease all over the world. People that aren’t vaccinated are not allowed to see cancer patients because of the possible chance of them carrying a disease. In 2010, the U.S. shows 21,000 causes of whooping cough (pertussis), most cases involving children that are under 6 months of age. These children most likely developed this disease because of a friend or family member that weren’t immunized. People need to understand that young children aren’t able to be as vaccinated at a young age, so since they are not vaccinated and immune to the disease it will affect them to a great extent.
Vaccination has been a very polarizing topic for many, there are groups who believe that vaccines are harmful and people who believe that they are beneficial. My research has found that vaccines are more beneficial than harmful and that the risk of vaccines is very low. In the beginning of this paper I will focus on how vaccines are beneficial and some of the research that is being done to discover new vaccines. Later in the paper I will discuss the risks that people perceive and provide evidence against them. Researchers have found many different benefits to vaccines and scientific evidence to support their findings but there are people who don’t believe them and think that vaccines are harmful.
Immunization is very important to the safety and health of everyone, especially children. Whether on not to vaccinate is the big question here. The only reasonable choice to make is to vaccinate. Immunization is not bad; moreover, the choice to not receive shots is dangerous. The choice to vaccinate your child could be a choice of either life or death. Vaccines are safer and easier than many people think. Immunization can protect from loss of time and money due to hospitalization, and can save future generations. Becoming educated on vaccinations and how they work will save lives one day.
Vaccines have always been a controversial topic, to whether they are required all the way down to what they are composed of. It has been an ongoing battle since the 1970s and continues to make headlines even in this year of 2015 with the measles outbreak from Disneyland. Even now, many still believe that vaccinations can cause autism and choose not to vaccinate their children for that reason or another. Vaccinations are critical and need to be required for children before entering public schools.