In recent years, the vaccine and anti-vaccine issue has hit major headlines. As of July 2016, California law states “Public elementary schools and secondary schools cannot admit children unless they are immunized against 10 diseases: diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae type b (bacterial meningitis), measles, mumps, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, rubella, tetanus, hepatitis B and chicken pox.” Children with medical conditions such as immune-system deficiencies and allergies, confirmed by a physician, can be excused from immunization. (Perkins) California does not stand alone, all 50 states have some variation of this law. Despite the law, should these vaccines be a requirement to enroll in public school? Vaccines build your body's immune system so that, in the future, it's able to fight against a specific disease. Having children vaccinated early on in their academic careers is beneficial to all of society. The required immunizations are proven safe and effective. Vaccines are only given to children after a long and careful review by scientists, doctors, and healthcare professionals. Vaccines are tested by scientists around the world for ten to fifteen years before they are ever made available to the public. In this time, they have made certain they have found the antigen that can prevent the disease. After rigorous testing, it is then cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in three phases: thorough clinical trials are conducted on human volunteers to test
Vaccines have been around for many years and I am sure they have saved many lives, but there are many precautions that come along with getting vaccinated some being life threatening. Vaccines have also been proven to cause long term seizures,comas, and brain damage. Not only can there be many risks in getting vaccinated, but vaccines contain harmful ingredients. For example some vaccines contain Aluminum and an excess amount of Aluminum in the human body can cause neurological problems. Formaldehyde is also found in vaccines, studies have shown that Formaldehyde may be a leading cause to cancer. Children who attend a public
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
Vaccines have become an important innovation to health throughout the years. A vaccine is a product that produces immunity from a disease and can be given by the nose or the mouth.
It is crucial for children to get vaccinated, the reason being is because their immune system is still developing because it hasn’t had the chance to develop various antibodies needed to fight against disease. Vaccines are like a training course for the immune system. They prepare the body to fight disease without exposing the patient to disease symptoms. Immunizations for them will give them a chance to better fight off disease because when they get vaccinated they are receiving dead or weakened antigens so that the body recognizes the foreign invaders and starts developing antibodies. During this process the vaccine will not cause infection because of how weakened the antigens are. The antibodies that are developed during initial contact with the antigen will eventually breakdown, but during this process the body is making immune cells called memory cells that will be stored in the body for later use to fight off infection.
The topic whether Vaccines are harmful or beneficial has become a very controversial topic. Vaccines are some type of substance in which is made as antibiotics to provide immunity to the human body against harmful and even deathly diseases. In this controversial topic, we see two sides of the topic, one is those who believe that vaccines are beneficial and the other side which believe the opposite which is that vaccines are harmful and have side effects. Even though Vaccines have been proven to help from clearing diseases, people seem to believe that vaccines cause problems and risks to people that take them. I will be providing 3 articles which represent why vaccines are really no harmful and have been beneficial to us human. Also, other 3 articles which will be providing information in which why people believe vaccines are such a harmful substance to the human body.
Although there has been testing results to show the improvement vaccines have made parents has divided when it comes to vaccinating their children. Today having your children vaccinated seems to be the typical protocol from the beginning as an infant, up until the time of becoming young adults. Children should be required to be vaccinated because the science behind the tested vaccines show proof on paper the benefits it has implemented on our country. However, you have some parents who question if their child is being put at risk.
Throughout history, illnesses have plagued mankind. Things as simple as having the measles or as serious as polio could have been a death sentence 100 years ago (“Five Important Reasons” 2017). Vaccines are societies way of fighting back. The world now has and needs to use the capability to vaccinate children when they are young to protect them from these deadly diseases, as well as helping to prevent others that have not been cured.
Vaccines are safe, and one of the greatest developments in the 20th century that improves our health and longevity. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends 9 vaccines that are covered in 29 doses, but there is no federal law that mandates vaccinations. There is a large debate over the morality of forcing people to vaccinate. Many people do not fully understand what a vaccine is, and this may cause some confusion and evasion. A vaccine protects and prepares a body for exposure to a particular disease. This allows the body to develop an immunity to that disease and to build a resistance if contracted in its lifetime. This paper will provide sufficient evidence that shows the development and research spent creating vaccines as well as the impact they provide to society. First, explaining what vaccinations are as well as their benefits to the body. Then, the large impact that they can have when administered universally to improve the overall health of humans. Finally, explaining what the side effects are, in comparison to contracting a disease that can occur in humans. The government should step in and mandate vaccinations because they shouldn’t be optional. Vaccines offer protection and should be mandatory since they provide a significant impact for better health.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommends getting 29 doses of 9 vaccines plus a yearly flu shot after children reach the age of 6 months. No federal law require vaccination, but all 50 states require certain vaccinations for children entering public schools. Most states offer medical and religious exemptions. Supporters say that vaccination is safe and one of the greatest health developments as of late. They point out that illnesses, including rubella, flu, smallpox, polio, and whooping cough, are now preventable by vaccination and millions of children’s lives are saved. They say side effects to vaccines are extremely rare.
Imagine living in the year 1950. The public pool is closed; movie theatres are shut down; camps and schools deserted; water fountains are avoided. All of this done in an attempt to prevent the contraction of polio –a potentially deadly and debilitating disease. Fortunately, you live in the year 2018 where polio, and other diseases, are able to be prevented with the simplest of actions. Vaccinations. Vaccinations are key in preventing many illnesses such as polio, measles, and whooping cough. Additionally, widespread vaccination can help to prevent unvaccinated people from contracting life-threatening diseases. Unfortunately, according to statistics from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, nearly 1.5 million children under the age of 5 die of vaccine preventable diseases every year. Even though these illnesses are easily prevented, some parents still refuse to vaccinate their children because of fear of adverse effects. Parents should be required to have their children vaccinated unless a medical exemption applies because vaccines prevent harmful diseases and spread herd immunity.
For many parents, having their child start school or day care is a scary experience. There are so many schools to choose from, so many teachers to background check, and endless amounts of supplies to get. One important part of school, and one that is often overlooked, is the vaccinations required to enter most public and private schools. Many schools require that children have a certain number of doses for certain viruses and diseases before they can be enrolled (“School”). In the past, this was an easy decision to make. Kids are protected from viruses, and can go to the school of their choosing. In recent years, this has become a bit of an issue. Many parents are deciding to discontinue having the vaccines administered, or skipped it altogether. Some parents are all for the vaccines, while others are totally against them. It leads to an issue on whether schools should legally require students to be vaccinated to attend school. Some believe it should be mandatory before that child is put in close quarters with other children, while other believe it should be up to the parents whether the child is administered vaccines or not. As of now, most students are required to be vaccinated, with exception for religious reasons. The question to address is whether the vaccines should be mandatory for everyone, or if parents should be allowed to opt out of the vaccines, regardless of the reason.
Diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, yellow fever, small pox, and mumps are several diseases that have become unfamiliar to many nowadays. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, these illnesses struck and killed thousands of people worldwide, targeting mostly children. Today, these diseases remain forgotten due to vaccines. A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity against a type of disease. Vaccinations are beneficial because they train the immune system to resist a new pathogenic without exposing us to the disease by producing antibodies to fight it. Whereas before vaccinations, in order to be fully immune from an illness you had to catch the disease, and hopefully survive it. However, despite the positivity that comes out of being vaccinated, their are still certain individuals who do not believe vaccines are as beneficial as they are said to be. This indeed is a false accusation because vaccines can save a child’s life, the ingredients in the vaccine are proven to be safe in the amount used, vaccines saves time and money , and they are proven to protect future generations.
Unfortunately, many diseases kill millions of children every year. These pathogens, whether bacteria or viruses can invade the body, increase rapidly, and deny the body vital resources to function properly. Consequently, children are more susceptible to becoming ill because of their developing immune system. In what capacity would children be able to be protected by the repulsions of these pathogens? The answer is by vaccinations. After much research and findings, it has been proven that vaccines help to prevent diseases, saves lives, and kept the spread of diseases at an all-time low. However, in recent years, there has been a rise in parents against vaccines and vaccine hesitancy. Thus, the term vaccine hesitancy is gaining recognition. According to Professor Elizabeth Miller (2015), there is an interrelationship between those who are accepting of vaccines and the ones who refuse them and it is not beneficial to characterize either as “anti-vaxxers” (p. 2). If the risks of a child receiving vaccines do not outweigh the benefits of being vaccinated and therefore vaccines should be made mandatory.
Vaccines, do we as a society really think they're safe? Your child just got a vaccine at her 2-year-old appointment. You ask if she will have any reactions in which the doctor said she’ll be fine. She wakes up in the morning with a high fever, throwing up and just miserable. You then put the pieces together, she is having a reaction to yesterday’s vaccine.
We have all heard it. As we sit in the doctor’s office as a child or teen we hear the wailing of babies and toddlers who have just received a shot. These ‘shots’ are called vaccines and are given to children to prevent disease. These children have no idea what they are for until they have had almost all that they need. All young children know is that they feel pain and they don’t want to go back to the doctor if they must feel that pain again. From a child’s perspective the new and growing trend is great news many parents are now choosing not to vaccinate their children. Parents who do not want to vaccinate children, then face the problem of schools requiring them to let children in school. Schools stand on vaccinations are a very good policy for schools do to many children being placed in very close proximity to one another and preventable diseases could spread. Children should be vaccinated to prevent widespread virus outbreaks that could have been avoided.