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Mayo Clinic Staff. (2016, February 12). Childhood vaccines: Tough questions, straight answers. Retrieved November 15, 2016, from Mayo Clinic, Childhood vaccines: Tough questions, straight answers. They say that childhood vaccines are to protect children from a variety of serious or potentially fatal diseases. If these diseases seem so rare that’s because the shots are working. Any shot that you are given can cause side effects. The side effects tend to have a low-grade fever, fussiness and soreness at the injection site. I’m going to use this website as one of my references, it has a lot of interesting information. In one of the topics it talks about if the shots cause autism. They say researchers haven’t found any connection between autism …show more content…

(2016, July 20). Possible Side-effects from Vaccines. Retrieved November 15, 2016, from Vaccines & Immunizations, http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm When giving an infant or a child a shot it is monitored their safety. However if the parent decides not to immunize a child also involves risk. By not giving them the shout you could put there life at risk along with any other child they come in contact with. The reason we don’t hear about. Yes there is side effects with me medication, but I would rather protect my child from a disease that could kill them. You can always take a Benadryl to take care of the reaction, but you can’t bring back someone that has passed away do to someone’s lack of responsibility. This is a good website that gives you details about each vaccine. I’m not sure if I will be using this website because there is so much information about vaccines out there, I’m going to continue my research to give a more basic idea as to why parents should vaccinate their …show more content…

K. J. (2016). Why Parents Aren’t Vaccinating Their Kids, According to New Study. Retrieved November 15, 2016, from ABC News, http://abcnews.go.com/Health/parents-vaccinating-kids-study/story?id=41716915 In this article Dr. Horton is trying to justify that autism is not caused by vaccines. She also states that she tells the family that the vaccines are safe and they aren’t going to harm your child. I totally get were parents are coming from they want the best for their child. Another reason that is brought up about vaccines is that it has discomfort. The shot will have discomfort, when you inject someone with a medicine there will be that burning sensation that comes with it. I’m going to be using this article in my paper, I like the way they have put it out there for you to understand what is going on. The reason why you don’t see mumps or polio is because they give you a vaccine to prevent it from happening. It states in the article that vaccines have prevented at least 322 million illnesses and 21 million hospitalizations. Parent & Child Scholastic. The Vaccine Debate. Retrieved November 15, 2016, from Parent and Child Magazine,

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