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    vaccines for more than two centuries.(Basics) A vaccine is a product that produces immunity from a disease and can be administered through needle, injections, mouth, or aerosol. (Basics) Due to vaccinations, illnesses such as rubella, diphtheria, smallpox, polio, and whooping cough are now prevented. (Vaccines) Vaccines are effective to stop epidemics. Vaccines should be required for children. The 2012 outbreak sickened 42,000 people in the United States, which was the worst outbreak since 1955.

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    Vaccinations are extremely important to the safety of society. These vaccinations protect not only the vaccinated, but, also, other people around the person who was vaccinated. Three important reasons why you should be vaccinated are it lowers your risk of contracting a communicable disease, protects the people around you, and vaccines can be life-saving. The communicable diseases vaccines prevent can be life-threatening. Vaccines lower your risk of contracting communicable diseases by working with

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    Vaccination Letter

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    I am writing this letter, hopefully to be printed in your paper, expressing my strong feelings about the issue of vaccinations given to prevent disease. There are many reasons to make sure that all of the population is properly vaccinated. Vaccines are very safe and effective, they can save a child’s life, and they protect future generations. These are just three reasons supporting vaccinations. I will explain why I think these reasons are so important. Vaccines are safe and effective. They

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    Vaccines are extremely important to public health because if it was not for vaccines we would still be dying from a terrible disease like smallpox. Vaccines are important to not only your health but everyone around you. Prevention is key! So many diseases can be prevented just by a vaccine, such as chicken pox, Mumps, Whooping cough, HPV, Measles, and Polio. According to Vaccines Pros and Cons, Vaccines can protect future generations. In order to decrease or prevent diseases, we must vaccinate our

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    The connection between the dropping vaccination rates and the death rates of vaccine-preventable disease is evident and confirmed by statistical analysis (Ruderfer and Krilov e76-e81.). As science advances some vaccines have become obsolete; smallpox, polio, and diphtheria have been defeated by modern medicine. "Five Important

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    The Columbian Exchange refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. It was a dramatically widespread exchange of plants, animals, culture (including slaves), infectious diseases, technology and ideas between the New and Old worlds. Increased mortality rates and education, advancements in agricultural production, and evolution of warfare are a few examples of the effect of the Columbian Exchange on the two hemispheres. This exchange transformed

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    Half of the states in the United States recognize and observe Columbus Day as a federal holiday (“officeholidays”). There has always been a controversy involving the celebration and glorification of European settlers from the Age of Exploration. This controversial subject has led to a divide between the country, and different ethnic groups. European settlers from the Age of Exploration should be celebrated in modern times because of the many societal concepts they introduced to the Native American

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    State laws mandating vaccinations for children are very common. Every state has a law requiring children to be vaccinated before they enroll in a public or private school. Early statutes required vaccination against smallpox and were amended as new vaccines were introduced. Many modern school vaccination laws are the result of measles outbreaks in the 1960’s and 1970’s. Generally, states use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s schedule of immunizations as a guide, and require children

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    High Vaccination

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    sharply reduced by 90% or more and polio eliminated completely . Ragan & Duffy (2012, p.23) have also shown high immunization rates have resulted in a substantial decline in vaccine preventable diseases, particularly vaccination have eliminated smallpox worldwide. In addition, in a study of Bawah, Phillips, Adjuik & smith etc. al (2010, p.95) found that vaccine exhibit large and statistically significant effect on child mortality. The risk of dying for children younger than five is reduced by more

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    For their entire history, the use of vaccines has been disputed repeatedly. Specifically, whether or not vaccines should be necessary for children. Many parents nowadays have rejected vaccinations for their children, either from religious objection or they question the actual safety of vaccinations. Scientists argue, however, that vaccines have been known to save thousands of lives, protect entire communities, and even eradicate diseases. Ever since their boom in the 20th Century, vaccines have

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