All of the leading world health organizations attribute vaccination as one of the top public health achievements of the 20th century. The disease smallpox has been wiped out and polio is about to be eliminate. Millions of children’s lives have been saved from many serious diseases such as diphtheria, rubella, polio and whooping cough. All of these diseases are preventable by vaccination and adverse reactions to vaccines are extremely rare. The human life span has doubled since the 1800’s partly because of vaccinations (Roser). While the United States vaccination rate is at 77% of the population, there is a portion of society that believes that vaccinations are not only unsafe but unnecessary. The anti-vaccination movement for the past ten years
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The anti-vaccine movement uses this quote by Congressman William Posey (R-FL) "The incestuous relationship between the public health community and the vaccine makers and government officials should not be allowed to continue. I mean, you know, too many top CDC personnel go to work for the vaccine makers when they leave. That 's a revolving door that creates a serious conflict of interest and perverts incentives that compromise integrity." (Seth). Dr. Julie Gerberding, the former head of the CDC from 2002 to 2009, is now the President of Merck Vaccines. The anti-vaccine movement claims this is a source of conflict because of the large salary she now gets at Merck. Gerberding did have an impressive career when she managed the CDC. She handled many public health crises while in office, including the anthrax attacks in 2001, avian influenza and the global outbreak of SARS. She is deemed as an authority on public health and vaccines, so her merits made her the top candidate for a top position at Merck. The anti-vaccination movement would still argue that she is getting paid off for keeping harmful vaccines in the market but again if vaccines were so dangerous then we would getting sick since the start of the vaccines in the 1920’s. Wouldn’t our grandparents warn us on how …show more content…
The parents believed that since some of this disease do not exist in the US anymore then why give the poisonous vaccine to their child. What the CDC recommends that children between the ages of zero to six receive 28 doses of 10 vaccines. Some of these vaccines are for deadly diseases, diseases like small pox, rubella and typhoid fever which normally do not spread in modern industrialized countries. The CDC reported in the US there have been no cases diphtheria between 2003 and 2011. Polio has been declared eradicated since 1979. Therefore the anti-vaccination movement deems these vaccines as unnecessary poisons. However, the US has many unvaccinated visitors from other countries. The paralytic form of polio may live dormant for years in a nonsystematic person, then mutate to infect an unvaccinated child or adult. This virus still exists in countries like Pakistan where in 2015 there have been 30 cases already reported. In May of 2014, one unvaccinated Amish missionary traveled to the Philippines and got infected with measles. This resulted in 195 cases of measles in Ohio (Belluz). In 2000 the federal government declared measles eliminated, but in 2014 there were a record of 644 cases of measles infections (Belluz). Some of these infections were due to the virus spreading to unvaccinated
The anti-vaccine movement uses this quote by Congressman William Posey (R-FL) "The incestuous relationship between the public health community and the vaccine makers and government officials should not be allowed to continue. I mean, you know, too many top CDC personnel go to work for the vaccine makers when they leave. That 's a revolving door that creates a serious conflict of interest and perverts incentives that compromise integrity." (Seth). Dr. Julie Gerberding, the former head of the CDC from 2002 to 2009, is now the President of Merck Vaccines. The anti-vaccine movement claims this is a source of conflict because of the large salary she now gets at Merck. Gerberding did have an impressive career when she managed the CDC. She handled many public health crises while in office, including the anthrax attacks in 2001, avian influenza and the global outbreak of SARS. She is deemed as an authority on public health and vaccines, so her merits made her the top candidate for a top position at Merck. The anti-vaccination movement would still argue that she is getting paid off for keeping harmful vaccines in the market but again if vaccines were so dangerous then we would getting sick since the start of the vaccines in the 1920’s. Wouldn’t our grandparents warn us on how …show more content…
The parents believed that since some of this disease do not exist in the US anymore then why give the poisonous vaccine to their child. What the CDC recommends that children between the ages of zero to six receive 28 doses of 10 vaccines. Some of these vaccines are for deadly diseases, diseases like small pox, rubella and typhoid fever which normally do not spread in modern industrialized countries. The CDC reported in the US there have been no cases diphtheria between 2003 and 2011. Polio has been declared eradicated since 1979. Therefore the anti-vaccination movement deems these vaccines as unnecessary poisons. However, the US has many unvaccinated visitors from other countries. The paralytic form of polio may live dormant for years in a nonsystematic person, then mutate to infect an unvaccinated child or adult. This virus still exists in countries like Pakistan where in 2015 there have been 30 cases already reported. In May of 2014, one unvaccinated Amish missionary traveled to the Philippines and got infected with measles. This resulted in 195 cases of measles in Ohio (Belluz). In 2000 the federal government declared measles eliminated, but in 2014 there were a record of 644 cases of measles infections (Belluz). Some of these infections were due to the virus spreading to unvaccinated