Cowpox Vaccination Analysis

The widespread contamination of an infectious disease have been either contained, or eliminated with the use vaccines. For example smallpox was one of these infectious disease which practically exterminated populations by just the exposure. Although smallpox has been infecting many civilization, the effects on the indigenous population of the South and North Americas was one of the worse outbreaks, it reduced the population about “90 percent, a blow far greater than any defeat in battle” (Greenspan, 2015). In 1769 Edward Jenner developed the first ever successful vaccine after learning of a tale that dairymaids were unable to contract smallpox after suffering from cowpox, he began experimenting by transmitting cowpox to a young boy, and after

In the cases of medical, religious, philosophical, those are some reasons that could be considered exemptions from receiving the appropriate vaccinations. For instance in the case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts, Henning Jacobson declined to get the smallpox vaccinate, and also pay the fine for his refusal, he argued that the law in place violated his rights “under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which ensures that no state shall...deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” (“Mandatory Vaccination”, 2015). By 1905 the Supreme Court had ruled with the state of Massachusetts that “when faced with a crisis, state governments have a duty to protect residents, even if that means suspending certain basic rights” (“Mandatory Vaccinations”, 2015), because the safety of the general public outweighs an individuals

Which in includes the FDA who states that “Vaccines, as with all products regulated by FDA, undergo a rigorous review of laboratory and clinical data to ensure the safety, efficacy, purity and potency of these products” (“Vaccines”, 2015). A misconception of vaccinations is that children can develop autism from the ingredient thimerosal, and “on Aug. 27, 2010 the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled (3-0) that there is no link between vaccination and autism” (ProCon, 2015). Although there are rare cases of adverse reactions to the vaccines it “occurs in one per several hundred thousand to one per million vaccinations” (ProCon, 2015, para. 3), and for others they can’t be vaccinated for health reasons. For instance people with weak immunes system may face problems adjusting to vaccines, but also “includes those with food allergies may also be unable to receive vaccines that include certain ingredients” (“Mandatory Vaccination”, 2015). Since there is a group that cannot be safely vaccinated for medical reasons, it is essential that those who can be vaccinated are in order to protect those who cannot. Vaccines as with any regulated drug are tested to proven to be effective and safe before being mass