...Jennifer Krahenbuhl English 102 Patricia McKeown September 1st 2014 Pros and Cons to Vaccinations in Children Almost everyone has heard of the benefits and dangers of childhood vaccines. Parents are especially eager to do what is best for their child to protect him or her. Some people have different opinions on what the best specifically entails when it comes to childhood vaccines. Vaccinations are a controversial discussion as parents question whether it should be mandatory or optional when they feel the cons outweigh the pros. The government says it is the right thing to do for parents and their families to remain safe from illnesses and diseases. However, there have been opinions of opposition voiced by parents and health advocates about whether or not it is worth the risk of being sick once vaccinated and whether these vaccinations actually work. The argument on both sides range from First Amendment right issues all the way to disabling health concerns. This essay will serve to examine and elaborate both the positive and negative perspectives on vaccinations in infants and children and why certain parents hesitate in vaccinating their children. The center of disease and control prevention(CDCP) claim there are five important vaccinations every child should receive. The chicken pox vaccine, measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) Vaccine, the Hepatitis vaccine, the haemophilus influenza type B(HIB) Vaccine, and pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. The chicken pox vaccine is probably...
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...Vaccination coverage has been expanding for some decades, and the experiment for creating new vaccines have been conducted yet. There are approximately more than 60 kinds of vaccinations, and they can prevent 25 infectious diseases. The vaccination is advertised an effective way to develop immune system, so the people who are not over 18 years old are recommended to inoculate 15 kinds of vaccines to enhance own immunity. On the other hand, serious side effects caused by vaccinations became a social issue a couple years ago. Some people who are vaccinated reported side effects such as body convulsion, joint pain, and fever, it results that people have a question for the necessity of vaccination. This issue has been discussed on a global scale, and there are three main sides debating this issue: one side promotes to inoculate vaccine, another side opposes to vaccinating, and the final side supports to inoculate vaccines only for certain diseases....
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...I do not believe getting vaccines are the best option. Parents who do not vaccinate their children are often stereotyped or blamed for putting their children at risk of getting infections. Spread of infection is not just through contact with other people. You can become infected without ever coming in contact with another person. Herd Immunity states that the more people who get vaccinations the less likely a person who did not get vaccinated is to get infected. Herd immunity is just an excuse used to scare parents into vaccinating their children. Vaccination does not mean immunization. Vaccines only boost the body’s immune system temporally. Our immune systems is used to recognize and attack infections that enter the body through the nose,...
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...Marcus Stubbs ENF 002 Mrs. Richardson 1 April 2014 Vaccination Obligations As Americans we are obligated to adhere to certain customs and courtesies. Some are clear cut and defined, like abiding by laws. Others may lie in the moral or ethical category. I believe the vaccine Influenza virus falls into that grey area. With all this attention being brought forward about the pending Influenza epidemic, it makes me wonder what the driving force behind developing a viable vaccine is. Is it for monetary gain, or is it for global immunization? The process of using embrocated chicken eggs in which we cultivate most, to all viral vaccinations is slow and cumbersome, and has been in practice since 1936. There are other processes, but they all...
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...Today we talk about a debated topic long since argued over, vaccinations. We as people have the right both of our own will and constitutional to decide what we as people want. Over these next few paragraphs I’ll be talking about the pros and cons of vaccinations that are used in most debates. In the end I will right a final paragraph stating my standing point on this topic. The second paragraph is pro-vaccination the third is against vaccination the fourth is my own thoughts on the subject. Throughout the years vaccinations have proved to be extremely useful to us protecting our children, millions of lives and lowering our risk of infection. The effectiveness of these vaccines provide little to no chance of any problem occuring due to extensive...
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...Vaccinations: Should We or Shouldn’t We Advances in science and how vaccines are developed have greatly reduced many diseases that at one time spread like wildfire throughout the United States. “Because of the success of vaccines, most young people have never seen the devastating effects that diseases such as polio, measles, or whooping cough (pertussis) can have on a family or community” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). However, diseases such as polio and measles, which were once thought to be extinguished here in the United States, are now making a comeback due to parents refusing to vaccinate their children. Parents are able to choose whether or not to vaccinate their children, and many are beginning to question...
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...Anti-Vaccination: An Opposition Melanie Say Kaplan University Professor Chad Walls CM220 March 13, 2015 Opposition: Anti-vaccination Despite extended benefits demonstrated through immunization programs, parents and vocal groups alike are challenging the administration of inoculations. A history of fraudulent studies introduced the concept of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism, adding fuel to the controversial fire of adverse reactions associated with immunizations. Furthermore, organizations in Maine defend philosophical exemptions in schools as their "personal freedom and parental right", disregarding the "imminent danger to others who can't take the vaccine" (Boston Globe, 2015, para. 4). Within the past two decades, opposition...
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...be ready to fight the pathogen if it ever reappears. Vaccines have become apart of our everyday fight against pathogens. Now even though a vaccination shot stings/hurts there are many pros or benefits for getting a vaccine. For example vaccines can eradicate disease while preventing serious illness or death. Vaccinated children have been proven to have lesser symptoms than those of unvaccinated children. Vaccines have caused a decrease in epidemics like the bubonic plague and pandemics like the swine flu. The costs of vaccinations are inexpensive compared to treating diseases after you get them. The best thing about vaccinations is that you don’t have to experience the full symptoms of the disease to gain immunity. While there are many pros to getting a vaccination there are also a few cons. For example before 1999 the vaccines had mercury in them which has been proved to be a neurotoxin to infants. Vaccine immunity might not be as effective as natural immunity. Maybe all of the vaccines that we inject overload the immune systems and prevent them from fighting other diseases. Anetocodal evidence suggests that MMR vaccines have led to the onset of autism. Then all the allergies of today have probably been caused by all of the vaccines injected in infants. While child vaccinations aren’t always good, I think the pros outweigh the cons in this particular...
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...Are You Safe? The most important question everyone is asking is, are you safe? Many people have different beliefs, but here are the true facts about vaccinations. The proof comes form three reliable sources, that have evidence from scientists today and back then. Vaccinations should be and obligation. Not a choice by St. Louis Post-Dispatch states the obvious. In the US a disease broke out called the measles, which killed 500 people, and hospitalized 48,000 in 1963. Many scientists didn’t know how to get ride of the contagious disease:nevertheless they didn’t find a solution until,”...in 2000 that measles had been eliminated from the U.S. because of the successful vaccination program”(p-6). In depth, this shows the effect on vaccinations...
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...Should Vaccines Be Required for Children? Terry J. Vervenne DeVry University Should Vaccines Be Required for Children? Shots, inoculations, vaccines, do children need them? This is the issue that needs to be discussed. Why are vaccines a necessity of current times? Even though vaccines may have some side effects, they have saved many lives as everyone already knows. They prevent many types of diseases and stop the spread of others. Just image having to send your children to school that’s filled with other children carrying diseases and viruses. Viruses such as small pox, measles, and mumps that could invade your child’s body which in most circumstances will then be brought home and spread to other family members. Therefore, every child in America needs to be vaccinated before beginning school because vaccines can prevent disease, save lives, and alleviate sick days at school. Firstly, many of these contagious diseases in children are preventable. Many of the viruses that cause diseases such as measles, mumps, or small pox are very dangerous. Sometimes the symptoms are very mild or not even noticed. While other times the symptoms can be severe, possibly even leaving a residual effect. For example, as everyone knows, if an adult male contracts mumps, this may cause sterility. Another example is polio, although preventable, once this disease is contracted it can lead to permanent muscle weakness. Once someone contracts one of these types of disease, it can possibly be fatal...
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...First and foremost, where exactly did the vaccine concept form and originated? As I summarize a brief history of vaccinations from an article written by author Zielinski which begins emphasizing on how it was two long millennia ago when it was recognized by China or India. Then realized people who are infected and suffered from disease expected nothing but death but instead recover. Along with that logic, It wasn't too long until science took notice the only method is to infect oneself with a limited amount of the infectious disease and let's just say hoping the body can become immune to it. As the year's progress, it wasn't until an English physician of the name Edward Jenner who discovers a vaccine based from a particular infection called...
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...The recent United States measles epidemic has sparked another contentious national discussion about childhood vaccination. A growing number of parents are expressing concerns about the safety of vaccines, often fueled by misinformation from the internet, books, and other nonmedical sources. Many of these concerned parents are choosing to refuse or delay childhood vaccines, placing their children and surrounding communities at risk for serious diseases that are nearly 100% preventable with vaccination. Between 10% and 15% of parents are asking physicians to space out the timing of vaccines, which often poses an ethical dilemma for physicians. This trend reflects a tension between personal liberty and public health, as parents fight to control...
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...Vaccination is defined as any preparation used as a preventative 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. Pharmaceutical companies tout these vaccinations as safe and effective, but like prescription drugs, these products carry risks of not working and a risk to cause harmful side effects. The harmful side effects are one of the many reasons that some families all across America choose to delay vaccinations or refuse them all together. Whether it is due to the gaps in knowledge about the risks or the lack of studies conducted in medical literature, families are more and more reluctant to vaccinate....
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...simple in that bacteria will continue to live freely and happily while the host will have to suffer the effects of it. Some diseases are caused by viruses. A virus is basically a non-living infection that attacks the immune system and tries infecting other living cells. Children are much more vulnerable to diseases compared to adults because of the fact that their immune systems is still developing. Children are weak because they haven’t lived life long enough to gain immunity to diseases. So how could children protect themselves from diseases one may ask? Taking vaccination early will not only protect you from diseases, but greatly improve your immune system to counter all the other diseases. The invention of medical immunizations has not only been used to heal from the disease, but also to keep the spread of disease low. Having immunizations available have greatly lowered the amount of deaths in the world. Vaccination should continue to stay mandatory because it keeps diseases from spreading and eventually killing everyone. Bacteria and viruses infect humans in many different ways. Breathing in bacteria and viruses is one way. This can cause chest pain and coughing which is a symptom of Meningitis, one of most popular diseases in children. Meningitis is an infection in the cerebro-spinal fluid which surrounds the brain and spinal cord. During the infection, people...
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...Preventive care in the department of most pediatric care is a vital cornerstone, and vaccinations represent one of the most important strategies in the prevention of disease in children and infants. Due to the results of routine childhood immunizations, the reduction in mortality in the past century. Public concerns regarding the effects of vaccines has risen since the time of the first vaccination given by Dr. Edward Jenner in 1796. Many parents believe that their children were receiving too many vaccines and that these inoculations were weakening their immune systems. For years, the controversy stands, are immunizations hurting or helping our youth? In one single survey, nearly 25% of parents reported their impression that their children...
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