...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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...While the dangers of vaccinations are clear to some, other still continue to believe vaccinations are fundamental to our health. Jeffrey Kluger, editor at Time magazine, wrote an article “How a Vaccine Is Like a Banana — and Why That's Good”, where he argued that the same chemicals in a vaccine are also found in bananas and other foods. He states, “Want to see just a few of the chemicals that get pumped into the bodies of babies from the average vaccine? Try these: 2-methyl-butyraldehide, ethyl ethanoate, tocopherol, alpha-terpanine and a wicked slug of terpinyl-acetate…….Oh wait, my bad! Those aren’t the ingredients in a vaccine. Those are the ingredients in a blueberry. And the same is true for bananas and eggs too.” While he is correct, his concept is extremely flawed. He only named five of the ingredients found in some vaccinations, while failing to mention...
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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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...A Vaccination is something that most people face at least once in their lifetime. Many people are scared of shots, but get them because they know that it will prevent some gruesome disease. Jeffrey Kluger, author of Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio once stated, “Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It’s a simple message parents need to keep hearing.” If vaccines are so great, then why are people against it? B There is a debate in hospitals all over the world today over whether vaccination should be required by law. This law could be federal or state. A/B People are questioning whether vaccination is safe for their child. If there are harmful ingredients that could cause a life threatening disease. But do the disadvantages outweigh the benefits? C The choice of vaccination will reach everyone's life at some point. They will have to decided whether to vaccinated their child or themselves. They can not have their judgment clouded by outside forces that are not important to them. They have to decide whether the vaccine is worth it for them. Will the disease they are preventing be one they could possibly see in the future? However, leaving your child unvaccinated could lead to an epidemic of some sort. Most recently,...
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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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...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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...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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...cells will 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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...Immunization is a very controversial topic including the issue of mandatory flu vaccination for front-line health care workers. Health care workers are the front-line workers to whom patients are first exposed to during the initial encounter to medical system. Influenza is commonly referred to as the seasonal flu which strikes 5% to 15% of the world’s population with approximately 3 to 5 million severe cases of illness which leads to 250000 to 500000 deaths annually (World Health Organization [WHO], 2014). In addition, hospital acquired influenza has a 16% mortality rate which increases to 60% in high-risk population groups (Cortes-Penfield, 2014). Specifically in Canada, the average rate of influenza infection is 10% to 20% of the population...
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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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...This is New Zealand and we are all about the “small guy” we don’t need no governments telling us how best to keep our kids safe from polio and smallpox. Listen up, pro-plaguers it's called ‘herd immunity’. The more people who are vaccinated, the harder it is for a disease to spread. But if large parts of that population refuse to be vaccinated, viruses can still circulate. If YOU chose to not vaccinate YOU could be responsible for the death of others - including children under the age of 2 who are yet to be vaccinated. Ultimately, it is less about yourself and more about your younger siblings and cousins. Or the person undergoing chemo. Or for the elderly person whose immune system isn't as robust. Vaccinations helps protect the whole community, including those who can't be vaccinated either because they are too young or because their immune system is too weak. Putting your own health above that of babies and the sick, due to some misguided nonsense about Autism, is the absolute height of...
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