Ever wondered what most Americans fear in today’s society? People fear viruses because viruses cause most of your infectious diseases, for instance, smallpox, HIV, Ebola, and Influenza. So that’s why we use vaccines. Vaccinations? Do they work? Why do I need this shot? I will end up being sick, right? These are questions that most everyone in our society asks when it comes to vaccinating their child or themselves. Vaccines are good for a lot of things, such as, promoting economic growth, extending life expectancy, they protect people from spreading or acquiring the disease, and vaccines can save tons of lives. To start off, Vaccines trigger our immune systems to be able to build up our immunity to fight off a particular germ that is infecting
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In the United States, we have been able to prevent some of the most harmful diseases and bacteria’s because we used vaccines to fight against them. The more we keep vaccinating against them the more rare they become. Examples include polio and diphtheria. Polio is a virus that can cause paralysis and diphtheria is “ an acute, toxin-mediated disease caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheria (“Centers of Disease Control: Diphtheria,” n.d.). Even though it may seem that these vaccinations do not work, they do! A great example is the flu. People do not want to receive the flu shot because they think it will cause them to become sick with the flu, but if they do not get the shot, they could be carrying it around and spreading it to others without even realizing it. So we all should vaccinate to protect the others around us and for our future …show more content…
The World Health Organization (WHO) says, “Health is fundamental to economic growth for developing countries and vaccinations form the bedrock of their public health programmes” (“World Health Organization,” n.d.). Also, it is an advantage to economic growth because it lowers the mortality and morbidity rates. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has added a few new vaccines to the list for adults; those include varicella-zoster virus (shingles) and papillomavirus, or better known as HPV (cervical and oral cancers). By developing and testing new vaccines daily we can hope that more and more diseases will diminish over a course of many
In the United States, we have been able to prevent some of the most harmful diseases and bacteria’s because we used vaccines to fight against them. The more we keep vaccinating against them the more rare they become. Examples include polio and diphtheria. Polio is a virus that can cause paralysis and diphtheria is “ an acute, toxin-mediated disease caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheria (“Centers of Disease Control: Diphtheria,” n.d.). Even though it may seem that these vaccinations do not work, they do! A great example is the flu. People do not want to receive the flu shot because they think it will cause them to become sick with the flu, but if they do not get the shot, they could be carrying it around and spreading it to others without even realizing it. So we all should vaccinate to protect the others around us and for our future …show more content…
The World Health Organization (WHO) says, “Health is fundamental to economic growth for developing countries and vaccinations form the bedrock of their public health programmes” (“World Health Organization,” n.d.). Also, it is an advantage to economic growth because it lowers the mortality and morbidity rates. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices has added a few new vaccines to the list for adults; those include varicella-zoster virus (shingles) and papillomavirus, or better known as HPV (cervical and oral cancers). By developing and testing new vaccines daily we can hope that more and more diseases will diminish over a course of many