Pros of Vaccination Essay

The debate over whether people should receive vaccinations has been around for a long time. Public resistance to vaccinations has occurred for as long as vaccinations have been available. People who are opposed to vaccines worry that they cause health issues in individuals, especially children. Medical professionals worldwide, however, agree that vaccinations are safe, effective, and necessary. A vaccine is a substance used to create antibodies and boost the immune system against certain…

Getting to the Point of the Matter Recent outbreaks of measles and whooping cough have brought the vaccination controversy to the forefront. The United States has never had a mandatory vaccination policy in effect. Each state has its own immunization policies which the states govern and regulate. All 50 states do require up-to-date vaccines to attend public schools, including many colleges and universities. There are, however, some exemptions granted, although, the governing of those…

“From 1923 to 1953 before the vaccine was introduces the polio death rate in the united states and England had already declines on its own by 47 to 55 percent. From 1953 when the dead vaccine was introduced, to 1963 when the live vaccine was introduced the death rate decreased from 55 to 20 percent in the united states in ten years. The death rate of the disease decreased thirty five percent in ten years after a vaccine was introduced, whereas it decreased forty five percent in twenty years…

controversial topics in medicine today and will continue to attract more attention in the years to come. For every parent, there comes a difficult decision that parents have to make when having children, but how many people know the pros and cons of vaccinations. Vaccines have been protecting children for many years from diseases that when becoming an epidemic, killed many. Children should not subject to the susceptibility of having and unvaccinated immune system. According to the Center for…

Childhood vaccination have become commonplace in this day and age. Within the first year of a child’s life it is recommended that they be given vaccinations that cover a wide range of illness such as tetanus and Hep B vaccination or the more commonly known measles, rubella and mumps vaccination or MMR vaccine for short. (find note) However in the most recent years there has been a movement to not have children vaccinated for various reasons, such as people believing that the some vaccines had…

they see and understand points on both sides of the argument. The one view point on this issue is that vaccinations are safe and necessary for children. It has been pointed out that illnesses, including smallpox, polio, and whooping cough, are now prevented by vaccination and millions of children’s lives are being saved. For a matter of fact, children are no longer having to get a vaccination for smallpox due that it no longer exits…

country on Earth” by many hopeful immigrants and by a vast majority of her native sons and daughters. Indeed, the very establishment of this nation was built upon the idea of freedom of choice. It should come as no surprise that the idea of mandatory vaccination seems to be at odds with this very fundamental principles of what it is to be American. The fact that government may possibly try and exert their collective authority to force medical intervention upon our children is something that our…

children who have been vaccinated. The parents then automatically assume vaccinations will do nothing but harm their children. Many do not do the research to find that most of this harm hasn’t been proven to be an effect from the vaccinations. They also do not realize how rarely these harmful situations occur. It has been said that when you contract a disease naturally it gives that person a lifelong immunity, unlike vaccinations (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). This may be true, but…

a reality with a growing number of parents feeling, as though they shouldn't vaccinate their kids or themselves. The reason behind this is that parents and others are suspicious of vaccines and believe there is a link between them and autism. Vaccinations have been around since 1955 when Jonas Salk developed the first safe vaccine for polio. It saved thousands upon thousands of lives, revolutionizing the medical field. Before the availability of the vaccine, polio was thought to be a…

This seems to be due to the spreading of anti-vaccination articles, celebrities taking an anti-vaccine standpoint, and many other reasons. Whooping cough rates have raised dramatically as a result of this, and some “virtually extinct” diseases could begin making reappearances. In 2008, we had the biggest…