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
Keeping yourself healthy can be done in a number of ways, but the most important few would be: eating healthy, check-ups, exercising, and vaccines. A vaccination is considered to be the most beneficial and protected precaution you can take. Less than 50 percent of all Americans got vaccinated in the 2017 flu season. The reasons to actually get vaccinated could include the money you waste on missing work/ medical bills, to getting friends and family sick, but a main concern is not what the vaccine is preventing, but what it is doing harmful to your brain and body. In studies starting in the 1990’s, people started to believe vaccines could be causing Autism in young kids.
What is a vaccine? Vaccines have been defined as the development of depleted or killed microscopic organisms and once given that energizes antibody formulations. ("Vaccine," 2010) 23 various types of immunizations exist today. Vaccines have been reported to cause reactions that have gone under-reported and certain public health officials have been tracked
“Opting out of vaccinations puts public health at risk and could lead to a resurgence of dangerous diseases” (USA Today 1). If parents decide to not vaccinate their children it may pose a risk to the public as well as their child. It is still debated that a parent should or should not have the right to decide whether their child is vaccinated. Parents should not have the decision to vaccinate their child or not because by not being vaccinated death is likely, the disease is easily transmitted to a child who is not of age to be vaccinated, and it is necessary to keep the public healthy.
Are you doing something wrong as a legal guardian to a child? Is there something that you could do to ensure the health and well being of your child? Well, the answer is simply get them vaccinated. One of the greatest health developments of the 20th century are vaccinations, they point out the illness that your child could potentially encounter. If you are a legal guardian to a child, you need to get your child vaccinated ASAP. By getting your child vaccinated, your not only protecting them from getting a serious life threatening illness, but you are protecting those around your child. Major medical organizations recommend that your child gets vaccinated as soon as they are eligible for certain vaccinations. By getting just a simple shot into your child's arm, you could help save your child's life.
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
Although some people believe that vaccinations are not the best choice for them or their children, many negative effects can be seen when people choose against vaccines. Paul A. Offit in Deadly Choices: How the Anti-vaccine Movement Threatens Us All, saying “We’ve reached a tipping point. Children are suffering and dying because some parents are more frightened by vaccines than by the disease they prevent” (191). Since the anti-vaccination movement began people have been believing that vaccines are unhealthy, when in reality vaccines are protecting people from the unhealthy diseases. This movement has lead to an increase in outbreaks of preventable diseases throughout the United States. Figure 3 is a list of the “notifiable diseases”, which are diseases that must be reported to the government authorities. This figure shows how diseases such as measles and tuberculosis had a high number of cases before the introduction of vaccinations. Although it is good that the number of
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
The first important reason to get your child vaccinated is preventing diseases. Granted, a needle may not be fun, the vaccines prevent things such as cancer, polio, measles, and much more. Why is this important? Well, if these things are left untreated or prolonged exposure to an illness is left go, it can lead to serious damage to the bodies of adolescents and babies. The body is very complex. By fighting off infections, blood cells can mutate, cells can mutate. Fevers are generally the way a body tries boiling out the infection or virus. However, in cases such as cancer, it can spread. In babies, the risk of fever can lead to effects such as organ failure or brain damage. A simple needle won’t stop that from happening, but it lowers the chances of it happening.
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.
Today, views about healthcare, specifically about vaccines, have taken a 180 degree turn since the mid-1900s. A vaccine is a medical preparation given to people to provide immunity from a disease (“Vaccine”). Around sixty years ago, scientists discovered the Polio vaccine causing the serum to be rushed and distributed across the United States. Parents would stand in line for hours to get their children the vaccine. Back then, vaccines were extremely popular. Now the number of kids being exempt from vaccines has only increased, especially in Oklahoma. In the past ten years, the percentage of all kindergartners in Oklahoma that have not received any vaccines rose from .3% to 1.1%. That means that roughly around 550 kindergarten students remain unvaccinated
Vaccinations are a type of treatment using non active forms of a virus to create immunity to a disease. They were created in 1796 by Edward Jenner when he gave a 13-year-old boy a tiny dose of dead cowpox. Shortly after the boy was immune to the disease of smallpox.Vaccines are beneficial to society in that they save money in medical costs, save people’s lives, are effective in stopping diseases from spreading and in some instances even eradicating the disease entirely.
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.
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.
Vaccinations are one of the modern era’s most notable medical advances. They have shaped our society in ways that are easily forgotten, eradicating diseases that once posed a threat to the United States and protect the world against ruthless diseases that kill mass amounts of people. Vaccinations not only protect individuals, but also society as a whole and should be required for everyone attending school, regardless of philosophical or religious beliefs. The only exception for not receiving vaccinations should be given to those who would suffer more harm than good as a result, such as cancer patients, those with weakened immune systems, or those with allergies to the ingredients.