Many debate on whether or not they need to get their children and or themselves vaccinated. Reasons against getting vaccinations vary across the population. A high-income person may be able to afford vaccinations, but do not vaccinate their child due to religious beliefs. A low-income person may not try to vaccinate their child because they can not afford it without looking into alternate ways to pay. Individuals have their own reasonings for not getting vaccinated, but together populations all over the world could work to eradicate diseases one by one. Although there are many cons, the outcome of these cons are far less impactful than the pros of getting vaccinations.
Although it is important to get vaccinations, some countries cannot afford
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Douglas Diekema states, “Parents who choose not to immunize their own children increase the potential for harm to other persons” (Diekema). Unimmunized children can affect other children who have not been vaccinated. Douglas Diekema notes, “Even in a community with high immunization rates, the risk assumed by an unimmunized child is likely to be greater than the risks associated with immunization. However, the risk remains low, and in most cases, the parent who refuses immunizations on behalf of his or her child living in a well-immunized community does not place the child at substantial risk of serious harm” (Diekema). With kids who are not immunized, many health risks to other children arise; therefore, causing health risks to the parents of the other children because the children can bring the diseases home to their households. Also, for children with low immune systems, the children that do not get their immunizations put the children with low immune systems at risk. The children with low immune systems cannot help that they have major health issues that compromise their immune systems; therefore, making them prone to infections and diseases. The children, who have not been immunized, expose the diseases that are not nearly as deadly to them, to the immunocompromised children making them deathly …show more content…
Some diseases include the Flu (Influenza), Chickenpox (Varicella) Diphtheria, Hepatitis A and B, Measles and Mumps, Rubella, Tetanus, Polio, and Pertussis–also known as whooping cough. Many diseases if they are not vaccinated would affect the world in a bigger way (“For Parents: Vaccines for Your Children”). For example, Polio is eradicated in the United States; therefore, the U.S. citizens do not have to deal with the deathly disease. The U.S is continued to be polio-free because of the use of the vaccines. In certain countries in Africa, many people suffer from Polio and sadly, they are not given the option of vaccination because their country is a third world country and does not have the means to vaccinate its citizens. Vaccinations can lead to the eradication of many diseases and can cause many deadly diseases, that are not eradicated, to be less deadly and severe. The many diseases that have been wiped out thanks to vaccines are Diphtheria, Chickenpox, Mumps, Rotavirus, Pneumococcal Disease, Whooping Cough, Measles, Hib, Rubella, Hepatitis A and B, Influenza, Tetanus, and Polio. (“For Parents: Vaccines for Your