For as long as diseases and viruses have been around, people have been looking for a cure for sickness. Society has yet to develop cures for everything, but there are plenty of preventative methods, which can help keep the body healthy. The most viable preclusion is vaccination, which is an injection that helps produce antibodies and better immunize the body. Vaccines have been around since 1798, when the smallpox vaccine was developed by Edward Jenner. Despite how helpful vaccines are, many parents still refuse to use them on their child. As a result of this, many children are always dying, though it could easily be forestalled. To prolong the health of children, vaccines should be mandatory for all children under the care of an adult.
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By the time a child is six years old, it is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the parents immunize them with 28 doses of 10 different vaccines (“Should Any Vaccines Be Required for Children?”). Regarding how easily children get sick, it is downright stupid to not vaccinate them. Pediatrician Dr. Eric Ball told the New York times his opinion on the subject, “Sometimes I feel like we’re practicing in the 1950s. It 's hard to see a kid suffer for something that 's entirely preventable (“Measles Outbreak: Should Parents be Forced to Vaccinate Their Kids?”) .” When something exists solely to prevent disease, it 's completely ignorant for parents to disregard it and let their child become sick. Not only are vaccines sensible, they also help plenty of people. In the past 100 or so years, vaccinations have saved millions of lives. They are on of the greatest advancements in technology in the past century (Maria DeVito). Vivek Murthy, current surgeon general, agrees with Dr. Ball on the subject. He said, "My message to parents when it comes to the measles vaccine is to please vaccinate your children. The vaccine is safe, it is effective, and it is the best way to protect your child and to protect your community (DeVito)." Most people should agree that a surgeon general would know more about vaccination than parents, and if he says …show more content…
An outbreak was taking the nation, and several thousand kids were getting sick and some even dying. Philadelphia was the city that took the most damage from the outbreak, because of the church area, which choose not to believe in any sort of immunizations or medical care (Kelto). Without immunizations, children have no protection against diseases, and can easily get sick. The church had its own school, which held about 1,000 unvaccinated children. Many children from the school got sick at the same time, and all had rashes and fevers, which are common symptoms of measles (Kelto). The disease could spread very easily because of the high population of non-immune children. Philadelphia’s deputy health commissioner, Dr. Robert Ross, and his colleagues went to the church’s pastor to convince him to give Ross’s officials permission to have the children examined and immunized. However, the pastor refused to allow this, so the team left the church and proceeded to visit several homes of the church’s members. Most families allowed them into their homes, and of the ones that did, several had children sick with the measles. Plenty of the children had not gotten too sick, and could recover easily. But a number of the children were very ill and required medical attention
By the time a child is six years old, it is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the parents immunize them with 28 doses of 10 different vaccines (“Should Any Vaccines Be Required for Children?”). Regarding how easily children get sick, it is downright stupid to not vaccinate them. Pediatrician Dr. Eric Ball told the New York times his opinion on the subject, “Sometimes I feel like we’re practicing in the 1950s. It 's hard to see a kid suffer for something that 's entirely preventable (“Measles Outbreak: Should Parents be Forced to Vaccinate Their Kids?”) .” When something exists solely to prevent disease, it 's completely ignorant for parents to disregard it and let their child become sick. Not only are vaccines sensible, they also help plenty of people. In the past 100 or so years, vaccinations have saved millions of lives. They are on of the greatest advancements in technology in the past century (Maria DeVito). Vivek Murthy, current surgeon general, agrees with Dr. Ball on the subject. He said, "My message to parents when it comes to the measles vaccine is to please vaccinate your children. The vaccine is safe, it is effective, and it is the best way to protect your child and to protect your community (DeVito)." Most people should agree that a surgeon general would know more about vaccination than parents, and if he says …show more content…
An outbreak was taking the nation, and several thousand kids were getting sick and some even dying. Philadelphia was the city that took the most damage from the outbreak, because of the church area, which choose not to believe in any sort of immunizations or medical care (Kelto). Without immunizations, children have no protection against diseases, and can easily get sick. The church had its own school, which held about 1,000 unvaccinated children. Many children from the school got sick at the same time, and all had rashes and fevers, which are common symptoms of measles (Kelto). The disease could spread very easily because of the high population of non-immune children. Philadelphia’s deputy health commissioner, Dr. Robert Ross, and his colleagues went to the church’s pastor to convince him to give Ross’s officials permission to have the children examined and immunized. However, the pastor refused to allow this, so the team left the church and proceeded to visit several homes of the church’s members. Most families allowed them into their homes, and of the ones that did, several had children sick with the measles. Plenty of the children had not gotten too sick, and could recover easily. But a number of the children were very ill and required medical attention