Vaccinations : There Is No Cure For Stupid

When one is given a vaccine, he or she is being injected with a killed microbe to train his or her immune system to be able to fight it off, in hopes to prevent a future disease. Whether or not to vaccinate one’s child has been a controversy through the years, because some vaccines have had unplanned side effects. These unplanned side effects have caused parents to be skeptical on whether or not to vaccinate their child, despite getting vaccines can possibly prevent a fatal disease. Many questions have risen from this practice of vaccination, in which Dr. William C. Douglass attempts to answer in his article, “How To Win the Vaccine Argument Every Single Time”. Although William C. Douglass provides decent arguments

The means of dealing with infectious diseases that endanger individual and public health have evolved over the years. In 1789, however, the most protective technology used to prevent epidemics was introduced by physician Edward Jenner; vaccination. Vaccine efficiency continues to develop and become more advanced, producing immunity to infectious diseases from 90 to 100 percent of the time today. Because of inoculation, millions of people worldwide are immunized from fatal epidemics. However, because of unsubstantiated fears, many parents have been withholding vaccines from their children. Despite this, parents should not have the right to withhold vaccines from their children for philosophical reasons. Vaccines are the best way to prevent disease, vaccine exemptions endanger individual and public health, and without widespread inoculation, controlled diseases will rebound.

The idea of preventing diseases by injecting a little bit of the disease itself has been around for over 1,000 years, saving humanity from being wiped out by a simple, common cold. The idea of a vaccination seems perfect, but over the years, some parents believe in the idea of “anti-vaccines”, opting out the only potential protection among their children. The comfort and needs of a child is always on the mind of a parent, but when it comes to sticking a needle into the child that could potentially make them “sick” or “uncomfortable”, red lights start flashing and unethical health decisions are made.

Since their first introduction in the late 1700s, vaccinations have been a controversial topic of discussion. Vaccines are a safe and effective way to prevent the spread of disease. Although we can attribute the eradication and control of many diseases to vaccinations, there are still many Americans who are refusing to vaccinate their children based on their belief in a few unfounded fears. Most of these fears that the anti vaccine community believes are centered around the health risks involved with the practice of vaccinating. The majority of these fears have been disproven through extensive research. With the continued research and innovations of the

For many years, there has been a controversy about whether or not vaccinations should be mandated for everyone. In the United States, many diseases such as polio, diphtheria, measles, and whooping cough used to be extremely common, until vaccinations came around and started preventing these diseases. The main point for vaccines is to prepare a person’s immune system for any possible attack of a disease that comes in the future; a person’s body will be prepared to fight off the disease with the vaccine (“Basics”). Vaccines have the ability to prevent many cases of these diseases in advanced, but there are people who think vaccines are unnatural and should not be required for their children. It is said that immunity in child vaccines are about 90%-100%, which is an increase over the past few years (“Childhood”). Although many Americans believe that vaccines are unsafe and cause autism in children, vaccinations for children should be mandatory because they can save a child’s life, create herd immunity in a community, and they have been proven safe/cost-effective.

Vaccinations are considered to be the greatest health development of the 20th century. Because of advancements in medicine, vaccinations are becoming a widespread medium in the prevention of disease. They have provided the eradication and immunity to many deadly diseases such as smallpox, polio and rubella. Although there is no law that mandates the vaccination of children, they are necessary to prevent the infliction of disease and harm. By making the decision to vaccinate their children, a parent has the potential to save their lives.

Vaccinations have been proven to reduce the population from being affected by deadly diseases; however people are fearful of it and believe that it should not given. How can we possibly condone this? I’m here to explain why vaccinations are an ethical need, how they benefit the future of the world and their importance in decreasing serious illnesses and death.

In support of compulsory vaccinations, to date, vaccinations have eradicated many deadly diseases such as smallpox where the last case was found in 1977 (Should Any Vaccines Be Required for Children?, 2018), and vaccinations are on track to eradicate many more including the deadly polio virus. The other major advantage of vaccinations is to prevent child deaths. Vaccinating children over the years has saved tens of millions of lives worldwide, and in doing so have also contributed to the eradication of many deadly diseases. Vaccinations are both safe and effective because as mentioned above, they cause the body to create an immunity against the specific disease, meaning in the future there is no risk of contracting the disease (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 2016). Not only are vaccines effective but they are also extremely safe with only extremely minimal chances of side-effects, so it is argued that it seems logical to be vaccinated against potentially deadly diseases. Through the development of vaccines not only has it saved many lives but also improved the health of future generations through eradicating diseases (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2018). Additionally, vaccines have freed up many hospital beds, as well as allow more funding for diseases without vaccines or cures (Research Australia,

Coughs, headaches, aches and pains, fever, or runny noses are all common symptoms. They are symptoms that can lead to anything from the common cold to a deadly viral infection. It is because of this that vaccinations are a fundamental part of society and why doctors and parents alike advocate for hand washing, hydrating, and staying home when you are ill. Disease prevention is a corner stone in today’s society and has been one for around 200 years since; Edward Jenner created and administered the first smallpox inoculation. However, while always controversial the last few centuries have proved to lend unfounded credence to the anti-vaccination movement. Due to the publication of faulty studies along with spiritual and even political beliefs vaccinations have gone from being viewed as a well-respected and endorsed medical procedure to a breeding ground for further infections and possible physical and mental impairments.

Vaccination is often considered one of the paramount successes in medicine to date. The basis of vaccination is the administration of a vaccine to stimulate an individual's immune system in development of an adaptive immunity to a pathogen. As a result of its invention, vaccination has seen diseases once commonplace in the population have become exceedingly rare and in some cases, entirely eliminated thanks to vaccination (smallpox). However, in order to effectively eradicate those typically transmittable diseases which vaccinations seek to prevent against, a certain percentage of a community must receive the vaccine—this idea is known as herd immunity. Therefore, to maximize the efficiency of vaccination, public health officials made the practice

In human history, people had a long history in conquered the deadly virus. The minute a new baby is born, an injection is shot at his/hers arm, and it is the symbol of vaccination. The progress of vaccination could trace back to 1979. Edward Jenner, a scientist, who firstly infected people by cowpox (a viral disease that used to inoculate humans against smallpox) and successfully saved 530 millions of lives from the smallpox. Today vaccinations are available for variety forms of life threatening diseases such as: smallpox, polio, yellow fever, influenza, measles and so on. The research and development of vaccine makes a significant contribution to public health, however, recently big waves of anti-vaccination parades and comments sweep across

One of the most heavily debated medical topics in modern society is Vaccinations, the modern protection against the perils of disease. Vaccines are defined as, according to dictionary.com, “any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.”( The American Heritage). Vaccinations over time and history have proven to keep peoples’ immune systems’ healthy of diseases with histories of bringing fatal epidemics. The issues that have arisen occurred from misinformation on the vaccines, the concerns of how much vaccines are needed for the youth, and whether the

Over the last hundred years, medical knowledge has increased at an exponential rate. Understanding the cause of infections and the patterns of how they spread has given doctors the edge in prevention. New technologies allow for quicker diagnosis and definitive treatment plans. This has resulted in the near eradication of many infectious diseases as well as a substantial decrease in the mortality rate within the United Sates. As we have distanced ourselves from the horrors of smallpox, polio, measles and whooping cough, we have become complacent in their prevention. A growing subset of our population, commonly known as Anti-Vaxxers,

Vaccination, also known as immunisation, involves the process in which an individual is made immune or resistant to an infectious disease through the administration of a vaccine. Vaccines do this by stimulating the body’s own immune system to protect that individual against a particular disease. The discussion of vaccinations is a subject that awakens very strong opinions, stirring up heated debate on their reliability, efficacy, and safety.

The Center for Disease Control describes vaccines as the greatest development in public health since clean drinking water. For several decades, vaccines have saved countless lives and helped eradicate some fatal diseases. The push to do away with vaccines will not only endanger our youth, but our society as a whole. Vaccination is needed to maintain a healthy balance within our country. Vaccines provide the immunity that comes from a natural infection without the consequences of a natural infection. Vaccinations save an ever-growing amount of lives every year. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimated that 732,000 American children were saved from death and 322 million cases of childhood illnesses were prevented between 1994 and 2014 due to vaccination (“Vaccine ProCon”).