Straight Talk about Vaccination

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A vaccine is a substance that is usually injected into a person or animal to protect against disease (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). Vaccines help to protect children from multiple diseases; these diseases range from the chicken pox to polio. Vaccines are essential to the control of disease and death. Vaccines help to prevent the diseases from becoming an epidemic throughout the world, by diminishing the amount of contagious diseases.
In the year 1900, the number one disease that cause death was Influenza also known as the Flu. In 1918, Influenza accounted for 5 percent of the deaths in the World(Kliff). Throughout the world Influenza took somewhere between thirty and one hundred fifty thousand lives, in the year of 1918. Now Influenza causes about .0162 percent of the deaths in the World (Kliff). Between 1900 and present day the vaccine against Influenza was created. The vaccine was invented in the 1930’s but was perfected in the 1940’s (Suddath). Ever since the 1930’s Influenza has decreased until now when Influenza causes only 16 deaths out of 100,000 (Kliff). This is a perfect example of how with the use of vaccines has slowly decreased the of a certain disease.
Another example of this life saving tactic is the the invention of the Smallpox vaccine. The Smallpox disease has always played a part throughout history. Smallpox may have been the one of the deadliest diseases throughout history. There has been many cases of Smallpox seeming to have been decimated many times, but has came back and took the lives of many. From the 1500 to even President Lincoln in the year of 1863 Smallpox was a feared disease. Vaccines were created and did help out immensely, but once the disease seemed to be under control, it would pop up again, ...

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