The Importance Of Vaccines For Children

Every year, vaccinations prevent between almost two to three million deaths. In order to prevent massive outbreaks of diseases, vaccinations should be required for everyone including children. There are no federal laws that require you get vaccinated, but every state requires children to get certain vaccinations in order to attend public school. No one should have the right to be able to jeopardize the safety of public health. The American Academy of Pediatrics stated that a majority of childhood vaccines are 90-99% effective in preventing diseases while the FDA ensures the safety and effectiveness of all vaccines. Vaccinated children who have contracted a disease usually have moderate symptoms than a child who hasn't been vaccinated.

So many advances have been made in medical technology that children can now be protected against deadly diseases that had once injured and killed thousands of children. Their success have made most diseases either extinct or close to extinction. Only recently had the vaccination rate dropped and become a concern for the public health. In the United States, the vaccination rate is at about 90%, while in the United Kingdom the rate is below 80% . The reported case of measles dropped almost 99% after the vaccine was first introduced in the early 1960s. Measles have almost tripled in the United States when the average used to be only 63 cases a year. People are now catching the disease in the United States causing many outbreak. In April 2014, authorities reported that there were 129 cases of measles mostly in California and New York City. Many of the travelers caught the virus overseas, like Philippines where an epidemic had caused at least 20,000 illnesses and spread to people who weren't vaccinated....

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...nd other neurological disorders, yet there is no scientific evidence to support this. Those who oppose vaccines believe that polio and other contagious diseases can be exterminated with better sanitation. Others believe that when a child receives several vaccinations at once, it can weaken their immune system. In early July 2013, the CDC posted an article on their website that had estimated that about 98 million Americans that had received the polio vaccine in the last eight years, had received vaccines that contained a cancer causing virus known as SV40. In May 2010, federal health authorities advised doctors to stop the use of Rotarix, one of the few vaccines approved in the United States to prevent rotavirus, because it was contaminated with material from a pig virus. In 2009, the Baxter flu vaccines were accidentally contaminated with samples of bird flu virus.