The Pros And Cons Of Vaccines

Seth Berkley, refined Epidemiologist and advocate for vaccinations, articulates “For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment, they provide a lifetime of protection from deadly and debilitating disease. They are safe and effective. They cut health care and treatment costs, reduce the number of hospital visits, and ensure healthier children, families and communities” (Berkley, para. 7). The Centers for Disease Control recommend children have 28 doses of 10 different vaccines from infancy to 6 years old (The Center of Disease Control). Currently, no federal mandates require parents to vaccinate their children, though individual states hold different requirements for children entering the

Currently, vaccines protect children and many others from threatening illnesses such as, whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, and smallpox. Vaccination opponents claim that immunizations produce symptoms of epilepsy, autism, ADHD and many other neural and immune diseases in young children; in an overall claim that vaccines do more harm than good. Anti-immunization activists fail to realize that by not vaccinating children the chance of exposure greatly increases, thus, repeating history and potentially producing several widespread epidemics that have the ability to kill millions. Mandates and freedom of choice, research, and access disparities stand in the heat of the ethical vaccination debate. In order to avoid another pandemic, and keep the general population safe, the law must state that all parents have their children

As the official government website for vaccinations bestows, “Since 2010, there have been between 10,000 and 50,000 cases of whooping cough each year in the United States and about 10 to 20 babies, many of which were too young to be fully vaccinated, died each year” (Vaccines.gov). Through this statistic, it is hardly possible for an anti-vaccination parent to argue that their decision against vaccination only affects their family. Opening the probability of carrying an illness, such as, whooping cough, or measles, unconscionably puts children who cannot receive vaccinations at a higher risk. Furthermore, the ludicrous assumptions that endanger infants, the diseased, and the general population unwind themselves and self-destruct. Lack of vaccinations causes casualties, and the need for life outweighs simple precaution. The choice of anti-immunization by one family outweighs the choices of millions of other families and potentially kills. Logically and morally, the opportunity to put so many at risk must be