Learning about vaccinations and their correlations this past week reminded me of a high school class I had long ago. There was a unit on eugenetics in the eighth grade where my teacher Mr. Howk showed us the movie Gattaca. Gattaca exists in a fictional world where parents can choose what traits they want their children to have and scientists can alter the zygote so that can happen. Mr. Howk explained that this would be the greatest thing scientists could achieve, if this were to become real. “We could get rid of mental and physical disorders while children are still in the womb!
Let’s begin with how vaccinations have decreased the annual rates of our diseased, dead, and disabled. When an individual gets vaccinated, they not only protect themselves from getting sick, but they protect the people around them as well. Take measles for instance. The measles vaccine was introduced in 1963. According to the CDC, “Measles incidence and deaths began to decline in 1965 and continued a 33-year downward trend” (CDC, 2010, para. 11).
Vaccinations eradicated smallpox worldwide and now children don’t have to receive vaccinations for smallpox because of the work the vaccines did. Vaccines also played an important role in ending the polio virus. If we continue vaccinating now and completely we can trust that some diseases will no longer be around. This almost happened with measles, but the increase of people going unvaccinated prevented a deadly childhood disease from being eliminated from the U.S. Vaccinations are also very safe and
Estimations say that vaccines prevent between 2 and 3 million deaths each year. "It is one of the most cost-effective health investments"says World Health Organization (WHO). There are little to no dangers to your health that are caused by vaccinations. Vaccinations stimulating your body 's immune system and build up anti-bodies to a disease. These are the same anti-bodies that would form if you caught and survived a disease.
People who are not vaccinated can spread diseases to people who cannot receive immunizations such as infants, people with medical conditions that are unable to tolerate the vaccine, and people with religious beliefs against them. Unvaccinated people threaten the people in this population because of their personal choice. Safety of vaccines
Vaccinations have benefited the U.S , and our health, as well as those we care about including us. They have prevented us from getting diseases, and have kept diseases from spreading. If we stop vaccinating we are at risk of an epidemic, that could have easily been controlled with A simple vaccine According to CDC, “Before long we would see epidemics of diseases that are nearly under control today”(Source 4). Vaccines have decreased the rates of many common diseases such as measles and mumps, drastically. In addition to vaccines preventing diseases and epidemics and controlling then, there are also many other benefits.
Most of the diseases that vaccines are given to prevent are not a major problem in the United States anymore and therefore the vaccine is completely unnecessary. According to Dr. Julian Whitaker, "Hepatitis B—which is given hours after birth—is transmitted primarily by sexual contact or dirty needles. " A newborn baby would not deal with either of these things. Diphtheria and tetanus are given when a baby is two months old and both close to nonexistent in the
In most cases, many people fail to realize that vaccinations actually protect their child and others from harmful diseases, that is one of the main reasons why all children need them. By not vaccinating a child there is a very real and serious chance that it could cause harm by exposing them to numerous diseases. Unfortunately, I personally knew someone who died of something as common as the flu and it was such a tragic death. Vaccines can prevent any of that from happening and that is the best part about it. According to Author Sue J. Goldie, if more girls would be able to become vaccinated it could possibly save 4,000,000 lives within the next 10 years.
But that 5% can still cause a major outbreak. Those children whose parents have decided to not vaccinate them increase the risk of them acquiring and transmitting any vaccine-preventable diseases. Vaccines are recommended only after a long and careful review by scientists and health care professionals. Immunizations can help save not only your own child’s life but helps end the spread of these diseases to other loved ones as well. Some diseases that in one time wiped out thousands of children have now been completely eliminated or close to extinction due to our safe and effective vaccinations.
One of the many benefits of vaccinating children is it saves them from life-threatening diseases. The many diseases which children are immunized from include, Measles, Mumps, Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis (whooping cough), Polio, Hepatitis A and B and much more. Long before the time of vaccines, there was a shocking rate of deaths that occurred worldwide.
Vaccinations can simply save lives. It gets the immune system stronger to prevent viruses to affect our body. Vaccines do not make the body sick. Although, they do put a tiny dose of the disease in the person to strengthen the immune system to prevent an attack of a stronger dose of the disease. It is better to not have to deal with the disease at all than trying to deal with it after you
Vaccines are able to prevent disease in a single child, but their usefulness to society lies in their ability to prevent outbreaks. Vaccines prevent disease through the concept of herd immunity. Herd immunity is the idea that a disease will have a harder time spreading if the majority of the population is unable to contract it (Martinez). For example, if more than 90 percent of people are vaccinated against measles, an outbreak is unlikely to happen even if a person in the community is infected (Oster).
How likely is it for a child to get a disease? “Statistically, the chance of your child getting a vaccine-preventable disease may be relatively low. You are making a wager” (Childhood 1). Mainly, parents don’t want their children to be vaccinated in order to attend public school or tend to lack taking them on time to get the shots. A vaccination is being introduced to the body which will then produce an immunity to a specific disease.
Vaccinations can help prevent future diseases or viruses in the upcoming life of a child. According to an article from vaccines.gov, “Because of advances in medical science, your child can be protected against more diseases than ever before. Some diseases that once injured or killed thousands of children, have been eliminated completely and others are close to extinction- primarily due to stay safe and effective vaccinations.” Throughout the years more viruses have been prevented due to vaccinations in children. There has also been an increase in the amount of children that get vaccinations at a young age.
In the previous paper there was on the topic of the safety of getting vaccinated. I would like to offer my own opinion, and research to back it up. Vaccines are beneficial to you, and everyone around you. They prevent the spread of disease and are almost always able to work immediately, with minimal health risk compared to the actual virus. The main concern people seem to have on the subject is the nonexistent risk factor of vaccines being the lead cause of chromosomal mutation in young children.
