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    Pros And Cons Of Vaccines

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    Natalie Cardenas Nicholas Morris English 121 10/03/2017 Should vaccines be mandated? 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. The word “vaccines” comes from a disease that occurred ages ago named cowpox that affected cows. The word vaccine is derived from the latin word “vacca” meaning cow.  Vaccines cause immunization, a process by which a person becomes protected

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    Vaccines, one of the most powerful weapons’ humankind has for preventing infectious diseases from spreading. Vaccines help people gain immunity against these diseases. Outbreaks that have occurred in the past could be prevented in the future by using vaccines. There are a number of vaccines available to the public. However, only a select few are ever taken. Vaccines can only fulfill its purpose when people take it. Some adults take only one or two of the vaccines available to the public if any at

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    Pros And Cons Of Vaccines

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    Before 1796 the human population did not know about vaccines and had suffered losses from an illness that are irrelevant today. Illness had whip out civilizations because of how contagious it was. Since the inventions of vaccines, it has caused less death and allowed humanity to evolve. It has also opened the door for science to understand how virus and how the human immune system works. The vaccine is a method to force the immune system to work, by exposing the virus to the body. When a community

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    of thimerosal. In their informational article “Thimerosal in Vaccines”, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) analyzes

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    Vaccine Vs Vaccination

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    Vaccines and vaccinations are two different things. A product that produces immunity from a disease and can be administered through needle injections, by mouth, or by aerosol is called a vaccine (Basics). The injection of a killed or weakened organism that produces immunity in the body against that organism is a vaccination (Basics). A vaccine can help prevent many different and serious diseases. When you get a vaccine it will work with your body to try and protect it. When a vaccine enters your

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    Pros And Cons Of Vaccines

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    Vaccines 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

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    Vaccines Pros Cons

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    lives of children, however some of those diseases are vaccine preventable. So in other terms vaccines can save the lives of children. • Some of the ingredients in vaccines can be harmful if injected in large amounts, but vaccines contain safe amounts of all of its ingredients. • Health related reactions to vaccines are extremely rare, the most common reaction is an allergic reaction and even that is one per several hundred thousand. • Vaccines do not only protect the individual, but also people

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    Vaccines Research Paper

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    (Edward Jenner). Vaccines have transformed the way that we live in today’s society because there are many different types of vaccines that can prevent you from catching diseases. Diseases that were once so easy to get are now so easy to prevent just by the use of vaccines. Before vaccines were invented, people had no hope for saving themselves from the suffering and even death from a contagious disease. Fortunately, they found something that could give people hope. The creation of vaccines, dates back

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    common in any vaccine. Others believe that vaccinations are very important to get because they could save someone’s life. There is not any proven fact that vaccinations could be a factor of autism, there are only assumptions being made to this. Parents either want their kids to get vaccinated or want absolutely nothing to do with vaccinations. Even though vaccines have minor side effects and have controversial issues such as autism, there is no evidence for the issue; therefore vaccines are very important

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    being miserable. If you get this vaccine you wouldn’t have to watch your child suffer and constantly clean them because of this disease for up to nine days. Also, you could develop symptoms of rotavirus which could seriously affect your health and daily life. Getting this immunization that is completely safe could keep you, and most importantly, your child’s health at a good state and save you from a few miserable weeks of cleaning up diarrhea. Another reason vaccines are extremely important is that

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