...Over the last 50 years’ vaccinations have helped protect our most valuable investment, our children. The question is, are the vaccines saving or destroying our children? Some would argue that they are safe and protecting our children, others would say they are doing more harm than good. Is it possible the same serious side effects from vaccines are just as common as the ones you would read on the side of your medications like antibiotics, fever reducers and pain relievers. Today’s vaccines have helped reduce the number of infections from vaccine-preventable diseases by more than 90%! Yet many parents and adults still question their safety because of misinformation they’ve received. The need for vaccinations far outweighs the rare, unsupported side effects, to ensure the future of society from devastating diseases. The first step in understanding vaccines is to know how they work. Vaccinations work by imitating the infection, sometimes causing flu like symptoms. When people complain about feeling sick the day after their yearly flu vaccination what is actually going on in your body is its being trained to develop a defense response to the illness. This way if you do happen to catch an illness your body has a starting point in which to fight the illness....
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...Advancements in the medical field have successfully created endless opportunities of prevention against previous life-threatening diseases. Looking back, vaccines can be seen as early into the 18th century and have significantly reduced the outbreak of diseases to this day (Hernández). Illnesses that once resulted in the massacre of thousands of children worldwide have improved with the innovation of vaccines. Vaccinations not only provide an immunity towards fatal diseases, but can potentially eradicate them. With the miraculous wonders of immunizations, it should be an obligation to parents to vaccinate their children. Nonetheless, immunizations should be a requirement for every child in order to provide the best protection. Today parents refuse to immunize their children. Many believe that the use of aluminum is the cause of mental disabilities in children. However, the amounts of aluminum used in vaccines are not harmful. According to studies, “children are exposed to more aluminum in breast milk and infant formula than they are exposed to in vaccines”...
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...It’s your child’s next shot appointment since birth, you believe there won't be any harmful effects, but the many dreadful effects that may possibly occur from the one shot is life changing. Children vaccination effects is a huge reason why the percent of children getting vaccinations is decreasing. Families expect these vaccinations will make sure their child is healthy and safe from harmful diseases. Researchers have found out that vaccinations are useless and could injure your child for life. Vaccinations are unnecessary and unhealthy the chemicals, unsafe industry, and the vaccination injuries and effects, are not worth the risk. One of the many reasons these horrendous vaccinations are gruesome is the amount and untrustworthy chemicals in one vaccination. Parents think vaccinations will help prevent sickness. But would you want to inject monkey cells into your child? The monkey cells are found in popular vaccinations, like polio. Other life threatening chemicals are Gelatin, found in pigs. Also more common chemicals in these vaccinations are aborted fetus cells, aluminum, and...
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.... . . If the fear of infections from the unvaccinated justifies mandatory vaccine laws, then why shouldn't police offices fine or arrest people who don't wash their hands or cover their noses or mouths when they cough or sneeze in public? . . . These proposals may seem outlandish, but they are no different in principle from the proposal that government force children to be vaccinated.” What this is saying that if they would make people get vaccinations they should have to make people do a lot of other things but they don’t because it’s something they can’t control. Just like how it is outrageous to try to make us take the risk of vaccines it is also taking away our right of choice as an American “Giving the government the power to override parental decisions regarding vaccines will inevitably lead to further restrictions on liberties.” (Ron Paul) This situation could be seen just like the government taking away our other rights like our freedom of speech or if they were taking away the 2nd amendment. “Father who is suing the New York Department of Education to force...
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...Perhaps the most obvious reason for vaccination is the prevention it provides for numerous diseases and illnesses. Diseases that two centuries ago were incredibly fatal are now preventable by receiving one shot. In a study conducted by Joseph, Devarashetty, Reddy, and Sushma they state, “According to the WHO...current immunization programs saved more than 3.2 million lives each year and additional 1.7 million lives a year can be saved by full utilization of the existing vaccines” (Joseph et al para 1). In many aspects, these numbers may seem astounding. Because of vaccines, over 3.2 million lives are saved a year. This is good news, considering that the purpose of vaccines is to prevent disease and in some cases - death. This statistic could be used to support the argument for...
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...loss of lives and paralysis across the states, but currently, thanks to vaccinations, there are no reports of polio in the United States. Vaccinations is extremely important to society. vaccinations offer protection not only to the vaccinated person, but also for those who cannot be vaccinated due to genetic reasons, and for children who due to their age have not been vaccinated. Vaccinations are significant for the whole society, and the consequences of low vaccination rates are not limited...
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...United States as a common practice amongst doctors preforming modern medical practices. The number of children receiving vaccinations today is the highest it has ever been with approximately 74% of all two year olds on schedule for their immunizations as suggested by the Center for Disease Control (Kohrt). Immunizations are scientifically proven to prevent and protect children against disease, while others acknowledge this...
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...rid of that foreign substance. After the disease has been eradicated from the body, “The antibodies don't disappear. They remain in the bloodstream, always on the lookout for the return of the same invaders”(healthychildren). According to Healthychildren.org, “All live vaccines are made up of a weakened version of the bacteria or virus responsible for the disease”(healthychildren). In essence, the vaccine tricks the body into thinking it is under attack, and the immune system creates antibodies that will defend when a real infection comes along. So just in general having a vaccination done is the only thing to do and since it's the only option to do, it's the safest option. One of the main reasons as to why we are seeing a major increase in cases of certain diseases in the United States is because parents are refusing to get their child vaccinated or they continuously delay the appointments for vaccination. The parents of America are driven by the wrong reasons to be scared of vaccines. It is “human to be nervous about injecting foreign substances into a child's body (Fear, Siegel)”. But it is not okay when parents are saying that the reason why that they are not letting their children get vaccinated is from faulty research that has been debunked a long time ago. This research created by Andrew Wakefield, a British surgeon, “was published in The Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, suggesting that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine was increasing autism in British...
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...Throughout history, the human race has always fought against diseases and famine. But it seemed like they found a way to fight back by use of vaccinations when Edward Jenner created the first smallpox vaccine in 1796. As the years go on, vaccinations have become a major controversial topic since many believe they may be able to trigger disabilities and cause side effects, even though they save countless lives. The Centers for Disease Control recommends children get vaccinations from birth to age six but there happens to be no federal law that make vaccinations mandatory, though all 50 states require specific vaccines for children entering the public school system. Though there are many pros to vaccines, many people believe they can lead to health problems. In the following research paper, they will all be presented and discussed. Vaccines, the development of medicines, and hospitals have helped humans...
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...The requirement of vaccination of children in schools is a largely controversial topic. On one side there are the parents who believe vaccinations protect the vast majority of the population, presents no great risks, and does not infringe on constitutional rights; yet on the other side are the parents who believe vaccinations are harmful, present large risks, and infringe on legal rights. One reason that some parents are skeptical towards vaccines are the risks associated with getting them. The CDC claims that serious side-effects associated with vaccinations are rare, however mild side-effects such as headaches and soreness occur more often (CDC). For example, the DTaP shot can cause redness or swelling near the shot area for one out...
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...Vaccination, what is your opinion.Vaccination is a highly controversial topic in the US. Many people believe vaccination should be enforced, but vaccination should be by choice. Anybody above the age of 21 should choose whether or not they want to be vaccinated. If we are forced to be vaccinated, it is a direct violation of the constitution, and even if the government decides to imply that they will discard our free will makes many people unhappy, to say the least. Every man and woman has the freedom, and right to do as they wish here in ‘Murica. Our fair and just laws are the only thing able to override freedom. A “valid” arguement is how if everyone is sick nobody can work. That argument is invalidated by the simple fact that 90-95% of us get vaccines, the 5-10% of us that don't want a vaccine should have their right to stay unvaccinated. All in all, enforcing vaccines is unjust by our laws....
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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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...Paije Rush Professor Zeugin Workshop 100 December 8, 2011 “What Curves Our Thoughts?” How does Mooney intend to influence his audience /readers? People are conditioned by a lifetime of learning. Chris Mooney, author of “The Science of Why We Don’t Believe in Science”, explores how difficult it would be for people to accept new information. When a person is confronted with facts that challenge a long-held belief, the result is a strong defense to their position, a process called “motivated-reasoning” in which people may instead be ‘rationalizing’. Rationalizing can help explain how, as a society; we can remain bias over issues for which there are loads of evidence and information. This article is important based on the various perspectives of the learning process such as the president vaccine wars, science on climate changes, and global warming issues. Mooney uses these perspectives to his advantage to persuade his audience on the independence of beliefs and how it affects our thoughts. The theory behind “motivated reasoning” is that pre-existing beliefs, far more than any new facts brought to peoples’ attention tend to skew our thinking processes. These pre-existing thoughts color people’s most passionate and seemingly logical conclusions and beliefs. Mooney states, “‘Motivated-reasoning’ helps explain why we find groups so polarized over matters where the evidence is so unequivocal.”(pg.2) Mooney takes the time to not only cite organizations...
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...Thimerosal in vaccine also occurring at this time What Got Deer Started: Around the time the Lancet paper was published, a woman in Ireland was compensated for vaccine injury caused to her son. 2003 begins to take a closer look at Wakefield’s claims. Deer’s Findings: The research alleging link between MMR and Autism had been funded from the onset by a group of lawyers. Wakefield was on their payroll for two years prior to the paper being published and before the research began. Wakefield and his cohorts created “the problem” Children enrolled in the study were members of JAB as well as clients and contacts of the lawyers. 1996-97 these parents went to the Royal Free with onset of behavioral problems following MMR vaccination. Wakefield had arranged for specific named children to be brought to that hospital. Wakefield was not in clinical care, he was a lab doctor; made calls to the families of the children asking if the child had bowel issues. To file suite they...
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...Ever heard of Pasteurization? It was a method created by Louis Pasteur to stop milk and wine from carrying disease. Louis Pasteur is a French chemist and microbiologist from the 19th century. He had many influences in both the causing and prevention of many diseases. Now let’s take a look in detail at the many accomplishments of this biologist. Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, on December 27th 1822. Louis Pasteur comes from a poor family of tanners, not a likely place for such a person to sprout from. He was an average student early on in his life and was also very good at painting and drawing. In 1840 the young Louis acquired his Bachelor of Arts degree and two years later in 1842, his bachelor’s in science, at the École Normale Supérieure. In 1848 he shortly worked as a professor of physics, and a year later became a professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg. At this university he met and later married Marie Laurent, whom he had 5 children with. Sadly of his five children only two of them lived all the way to adulthood, the others killed by a disease called typhoid. This is actually the reason that Pasteur decided to try to find cures for the multiple diseases that had killed his children. Pasteur has had many impacts on biology, such as pasteurization and certain cures for diseases and vaccines. Focusing on pasteurization, he was faced with a problem nobody could seem to answer. Why did some wine go bad and why didn’t...
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