A tremendous controversial topic at this point in time would be whether or not vaccinations should be mandatory. Many parents are conflicted on whether or not giving their child vaccinations is truly protecting them or if it could possibly cause harm. Another side would be the parents urging others to get vaccinations for their children who depend on the herd immunity. As children go throughout public school where students have certain vaccinations required to attend, parents are outraged at the fact of a vaccination being mandatory. I will argue that vaccinations should stay mandatory to those under the age of 18 years old (unless medical reasons are present) to protect the herd immunity and keep certain diseases in the past. The following quote from The New England Journal of Medicine really brings some incredible points to the table. “Young children are often at increased risk for illness and death related to infectious diseases, and vaccine delays may leave them vulnerable at …show more content…
Diseases that we have heard about in history could be coming back to haunt us. Huge news magazines such as TIME Magazine has addressed the issue.
Measles has made a comeback, at least in New York City, where as many as 19 cases have been confirmed. New York City isn’t an anomaly, though. Diseases that are and have been avoidable in the U.S. thanks to vaccines, are resurfacing all across the country. Measles, for instance, was considered wiped out in 2000, but there have been several outbreaks in the past few years. The emergence of these diseases — especially measles — is alarming, and mostly due to parents in the U.S. not vaccinating their kids. (Sifferlin)
People are truly concerned with these diseases coming back and I fully agree. If we don’t take action soon and protecting children who can’t make the decision for themselves, we are at risk of not only endangering their lives but anyone of whom they are
This becomes a social problem because if one child isn’t vaccinated and comes in contact with a person with a contagious disease, it will spread to other children who aren’t vaccinated. That will lead it to becoming an epidemic. The cause of this social problem is the time we are living, we live in an age where we can find anything, about anyone at a tap of a finger. The Internet has caused us look for other options versus the generation before us. The media content on vaccines is very large. There is always someone who will support your views – even half way around the world. The social problem is not resolved because people always will have a different method of thinking from the next person. It’s ingrained in us to have our own opinions.
Almost no one on Earth has any immunity at all to this virus, which makes ordinary vaccines useless against it. The sudden spread of the virus into Europe foreshadows an epidemic development that could be worldwide. Ultimately, there is no way to protect ourselves against epidemics. They will keep disappearing and coming back in new forms.
Polio eventually phased out from the development of an effective vaccine the late ‘60s and was officially eradicated from the United States in 1994. By the time it was pushed out of the Americas, Polio had swelled to over 350,000 recorded cases. Europe and America had always been on the developmental forefront, but prior to the Polio vaccination’s discovery, vaccines had only been created for mortality driven epidemics such as cholera, tuberculosis, bubonic plague, and diphtheria. All of the outbreaks had devastated large masses, and vaccines were created out of fear of further destruction. This way of thinking was challenged after Polio. Soon there was planning for the future, and there was work being done to halt deadly diseases. Protection against less harmful but just as significant viral infections were developing. These viral infections include the various strains of influenza we still see today. We started out with a significant advantage over other people and have only grown on it. Our superior technology, research, and access to information have helped us land to where we are to...
The use of vaccinations has been a major topic in the news lately. The decision to or not to vaccinate your child is a decision that parents face each day. For some the decision is an easy one, a no-brainer. For others, it’s a very difficult one to make. People that are pro-vaccine believe that they are protecting their children and the future generations by vaccinating them against diseases that they could potentially get. People that are ant-vaccine believe that by choosing not to vaccinate, they are protecting their children and future generations from the serious side effects that they could potentially get from the vaccination.
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... you wait, the more likely your child’s immune system will be able to handle the onslaught with minimal damage” (Sarah). I am not suggesting that we return to the days without vaccines. But we must seriously address what appears to be an obvious link between the epidemic of developmental delays, autoimmune diseases, and the increasing number of mandatory vaccines. Every parent should know the advantages as well as the dangers associated with each and every vaccine, each and every time it is given. They should know the positive and negative consequences of refusing that their children be vaccinated, and be made aware of how they can go about getting exemptions. Also-- the government, industry, health-care professionals, and parents must band together to get the research needed to determine the safety of these vaccines. The stakes are too high for us to do otherwise.
Vaccinations help build your child a stronger immune system, when vaccinated when they are young. Protecting your child from diseases should be your top priority when it comes down to their health, because of all the diseases in the country can cause major consequences, or even death. It states in the article, “Importance of Vaccines” that vaccination protects children from serious illness and complications of vaccine-preventable diseases which can include amputation of an arm or leg, paralysis of limbs, hearing loss, convulsions, brain damage, and death. (Importance n. pag.) The article makes me come to conclusions, there are many risk to take when not getting
The subject over whether or not children should get vaccinated has been an on-going topic for years. It is starting to cause many arguments concerning the benefits and/or disadvantages of vaccinations. Some parents believe that vaccines can cause complications to children’s health while others believe that it benefits the child. This has been a huge, controversial debate for parents and researchers.
This is extremely inaccurate with the recent outbreaks of measles being an example of this. Measles has been almost eradicated in the US but is still common in places outside of the country. If a traveler with the disease flies into the US then comes into contact with someone that is unvaccinated they could contract the disease. This is even more dangerous because it leads to the disease getting spread to more unvaccinated people, leading to more becoming infected. This is one reason why vaccines are so important, they provide herd
Some believe that because these diseases, such as polio, have not occurred for years, it is harmful to still be vaccinating for them. It is true vaccines have eliminated many diseases in the US, but not in all of the countries around the world. In fact, many deadly diseases like polio haven’t been eradicated in some countries including, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. In 2017 there were twenty-two reported cases of polio around the world (Ochmann). Travel to a few of these countries is still legal, meaning that there is still a possibility of diseases coming back to the US. “It takes only one traveler with polio to bring the disease into the United States. The best way to keep the United States polio-free is to maintain high immunity (protection) in the population against polio through vaccination” (Centers for Disease Control). By requiring the polio vaccine, the United States has gone from thousands of cases per year down to
...y that is considered to be at an “at risk” condition when there are families that are not being vaccinated. Almost every parent has heard these concerning and alarming side effects that accompany vaccinations and some wonder are vaccinations even 100% effective? The obvious truth is, without vaccines, epidemics of vaccine-preventable diseases would return like measles and rubella. Although they may not be 100% effective, they still offer outstanding protection and without them, we can expect society to be like it was years ago and we would suffer from the diseases of our grandparents as we have slowly seen recently through the media. Our days now are the beginning of these epidemics and diseases “showing their face” so as a society we need to make the best decisions for not only our families but for our communities and environments that we put ourselves in.
In the 1960s, doctors in the United States predicted that infectious diseases were in decline. US surgeon Dr. William H. Stewart told the nation that it had already seen most of the frontiers in the field of contagious disease. Epidemiology seemed destined to become a scientific backwater (Karlen 1995, 3). Although people thought that this particular field was gradually dying, it wasn’t. A lot more of it was destined to come. By the late 1980s, it became clear that people’s initial belief of infectious diseases declining needed to be qualified, as a host of new diseases emerged to infect human beings (Smallman & Brown, 2011).With the current trends, the epidemics and pandemics we have faced have created a very chaotic and unreliable future for mankind. As of today, it has really been difficult to prevent global epidemics and pandemics. Although the cases may be different from one state to another, the challenges we all face are all interconnected in this globalized world.
“Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.” (Ezekiel J. Emanuel, 1). Vaccines helped humanity for many years in eliminating illnesses that disfigured, disabled and a lot of times took lives away. Children who do not get vaccinated not only risk themselves by being an easy target for diseases they also, harm everyone around them. In the end, today's children are the fuel of the future. Every parent should think carefully before taking any chance that may harm the coming generation.
Those who choose not to vaccinate their children are endangering the health of those unable to be vaccinated themselves, such as infants, pregnant people, and the immunocompromised, by jeopardizing community immunity. According to vaccine.gov, a federal government website managed by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, community immunity or “herd immunity” occurs when “a critical portion of the community is immunized against a contagious disease, most members of the community are protected against that disease because there is little opportunity for an outbreak” (Community Immunity). An infographic featured in an NPR article entitled “How Vaccine Fears Fueled the Resurgence of Preventable Diseases” illustrated the rise in measles cases in Western Europe and of pertussis (whooping cough) cases in the U.S (Doucleff). In the first eight months of 2014, there were eighteen measles outbreaks, and six hundred cases of measles.
By delaying vaccinations it can increase the risk of vaccine-preventable diseases. Getting a vaccine-preventable disease could be fatal. Vaccines should be received as a general caution, so that vaccine-preventable diseases do not become fatal, just to be safe. The vaccinations that are most commonly given prevent humans from disease that are not as common now, but not getting the vaccination could still be dangerous because an outbreak can happen at any time. Doctors do recommend that getting vaccines is the smart idea. If a person gets a vaccine-preventable disease, and did not receive the vaccine earlier in life, it could be too late to use the vaccine to make the patient