Would you risk it? Preventive care is the biggest milestone of the medical world, and vaccination represents one of the most important strategies in the prevention of disease in adults but more importantly children. The choices parents make to immunizations is a questionable debate. For example small pox has been globally eradicated, while diseases such as, polio are virtually nonexistent. Other life-threatening conditions such as measles have been dramatically curtailed to the point where families no longer fear the drastic effects of it. But in the recent outbreak of the measles in Disneyland, one would question if parents are still getting their children vaccinated for the measles. Dr. Andrew Wakefield wrote a research paper in 1998 on how vaccinations specifically measles and MMR could give a child autism, since then the speculations have increased and parents are worrisome. This is where one is at a stance, to vaccinate or not. Measles and other what once were eradicated diseases should be a requirement since scientists have now shown there are no correlations with autism, prevent the disease from spreading to others, and humanity would benefit as a whole.
The recent outbreak in the US of the measles have taken parents are taking more towards social media and reading on some ‘news’ of how some vaccinations can cause diseases one of the most common autism. The news went around that the measles vaccination could give the risk of autism, and was even credited by some doctors who later lost their license for providing false medical information. A case study in the British medical journal Lancet in 1998, in that study it was shown that the data was shown to be flawed, and the journal and nearly all authors have retracted their initial interpretation of the findings (Horton). In the Institute of Medicine Vaccination safety as well as the American Academy of Pediatrics doing their own case study overall have given the statement that it, “refuting all casual relationships” involving vaccine and autism (Katz). The choice of not having a child vaccinated is a parent’s call no matter what medical opinion is given to them, but with that it comes with consequences for both the child and people around them. In 2014 an outbreak of measles came to the Disneyland in California, in that numerous children were exposed and some were drastically affected who weren’t even in Disneyland. One of the parents of the kids who were affected was pediatrician Doctor Tim Jack, a father of two kids who were among many infected by measles from a child that was not vaccinated, Jack’s two children could not get their own vaccination because one was too young (ten months), and the other child (three years old) was being treated for cancer. They are very dependent on other children to be vaccinated so they wouldn’t catch the deadly disease, Jack wrote in his CareBridge journal of sarcastically thanking the, “Unvaccinating parent, thanks for screwing up our three-week "vacation" from chemotherapy. Instead of a break, we get to watch for measles symptoms and pray for no fevers (or back to the hospital we go). Thanks for making us cancel our trip to the snow this year. Maggie really wanted to see snow, but we will not risk exposing anyone else” (Jack). A child such as one of Jack’s who is already suffering from cancer shouldn’t be put through more when a simple vaccination could prevent it. The outbreak of the measles has over one hundred cases and slowly increasing, humanity would benefit as a whole if vaccination was required, one of medical’s moral ethics is utilitarianism, the maximum of happiness with little suffering. In order for utilitarianism to come into play the vaccine be justified. Vaccination increases the general public health. By increasing the general public health, the vaccination increases the general happiness. This is the ultimate objective of utilitarian ethics, this increase in general public health may give harmful effects. However, the beneficial effects must be far greater than any harmful effects that may occur. In order for this to be true vaccinations should be given to save more lives than it harming or killing. The successes of vaccines quite clear, immunization against many infectious diseases has reduced mortality by ensuring that everyone is vaccinated, society as a whole will be protected from deadly diseases. If most of society remains protected from infectious diseases. This would increase public health, which is the goal of utilitarianism. Happiness is something everyone strives for, sometimes it might seems small as getting a dollar or something as big and have a long term effect as to getting vaccinated. People will always listen to small rumors but with big picture still stands. With unvaccinations in certain people it causes harm to others, with no scientific evidence that is credible anymore of vaccinations being harmful and the explanation of humanity as a whole would benefit of the implication of vaccines with a morally ethical stance.

Works Cited
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Jack, Tim. "To the Parent of the Unvaccinated Child Who Exposed My Family to Measles." 15th Jan 2015. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/02/open-letter-parent-unvaccinated-child-measles-exposure.
Katz, L.S. Duke University Medical Center, Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease. 2006.
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