Heather Andes
Professor Baumgartner
English 1020 SG1
Essay #4 Rough Draft
August 7, 2014
Autism and Vaccines: A World Torn Between Fact and Fiction Children all around the world receive vaccines. Vaccines are used to protect the general public from preventable diseases and they have been fairly successful. In the past 14 years, there has been a decline in vaccination and a rise in preventable diseases. The anti-vaccine movement trend started after Andrew Wakefield published a non-fact based article in a medical journal, The Lancet (McCormick). Some parents are choosing to not vaccinate their children, not for religious or medical reasons, but for philosophical reasons. Philosophical reasons refer to personal beliefs that the vaccines …show more content…
What Causes Autism?” autism also known as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is considered a neurological disorder that may be linked to a certain gene mutation. ASD has many different characteristics, including a lack of emotion, delayed language and social skills, physical contact issues, finding certain noises, smells, and light to be bothersome, and the need for repetitive behaviors (Nordqvist). Diagnosis of children with autism includes screening and assessment of risk factors. Parents believe that vaccines, a form of treatment, are causing autism. According to the CDC screening and diagnosis are done around the ages of 2 and 3 but can be done as early as 18 months. The diagnosis process consists of two parts: developmental screening and comprehensive diagnostic evaluation. Screening for developmental delays are routinely done at well-child doctor visits at 9 months, 18 months, 24 or 30 months (CDC 2014). Vaccines are given at the same time as diagnosis and screening for autism are done. Additional screening for developmental delays may be needed for children considered high risk for developmental problems due to preterm birth, low birth weight, or other reasons. ASD specific screening should be done at the well-child appointments at age 18 and 24 months, especially when the child either shows signs of behaviors associated with ASD or the child is considered high risk because a family member has already been diagnosed with …show more content…
With vaccines outbreaks of diseases like small pox, polio, MMR, and chicken pox have dropped over the years. Since the 19th century the United states have been vaccinating to make sure that diseases are not spreading across the states and causing widespread epidemics. The United States passed the first law requiring the small pox vaccine in Massachusetts in 1809. Soon after many other states followed Massachusetts passed laws that required the small pox vaccine; this resulted in a decline of small pox incidences between the years 1802-1840. During the 1850s some doctors challenged the vaccination movement, this resulted in the small pox reappearing in the 1870s. In 1922 the Supreme Court found that school immunization requirements are constitutional and the states have the right to require them
Professor Baumgartner
English 1020 SG1
Essay #4 Rough Draft
August 7, 2014
Autism and Vaccines: A World Torn Between Fact and Fiction Children all around the world receive vaccines. Vaccines are used to protect the general public from preventable diseases and they have been fairly successful. In the past 14 years, there has been a decline in vaccination and a rise in preventable diseases. The anti-vaccine movement trend started after Andrew Wakefield published a non-fact based article in a medical journal, The Lancet (McCormick). Some parents are choosing to not vaccinate their children, not for religious or medical reasons, but for philosophical reasons. Philosophical reasons refer to personal beliefs that the vaccines …show more content…
What Causes Autism?” autism also known as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is considered a neurological disorder that may be linked to a certain gene mutation. ASD has many different characteristics, including a lack of emotion, delayed language and social skills, physical contact issues, finding certain noises, smells, and light to be bothersome, and the need for repetitive behaviors (Nordqvist). Diagnosis of children with autism includes screening and assessment of risk factors. Parents believe that vaccines, a form of treatment, are causing autism. According to the CDC screening and diagnosis are done around the ages of 2 and 3 but can be done as early as 18 months. The diagnosis process consists of two parts: developmental screening and comprehensive diagnostic evaluation. Screening for developmental delays are routinely done at well-child doctor visits at 9 months, 18 months, 24 or 30 months (CDC 2014). Vaccines are given at the same time as diagnosis and screening for autism are done. Additional screening for developmental delays may be needed for children considered high risk for developmental problems due to preterm birth, low birth weight, or other reasons. ASD specific screening should be done at the well-child appointments at age 18 and 24 months, especially when the child either shows signs of behaviors associated with ASD or the child is considered high risk because a family member has already been diagnosed with …show more content…
With vaccines outbreaks of diseases like small pox, polio, MMR, and chicken pox have dropped over the years. Since the 19th century the United states have been vaccinating to make sure that diseases are not spreading across the states and causing widespread epidemics. The United States passed the first law requiring the small pox vaccine in Massachusetts in 1809. Soon after many other states followed Massachusetts passed laws that required the small pox vaccine; this resulted in a decline of small pox incidences between the years 1802-1840. During the 1850s some doctors challenged the vaccination movement, this resulted in the small pox reappearing in the 1870s. In 1922 the Supreme Court found that school immunization requirements are constitutional and the states have the right to require them