Everyone Should Be Vaccinated

Many people’s lives are put on the line everyday because they do not get themselves or their children vaccinated. This is due to the anti-vaccine movement here in America. Although some people believe they should not get themselves or their children vaccinated, in reality you should get vaccinated. People should get vaccinated because of the dangers of measles, meningitis, and that children are more prone to terrible diseases. One of the many reasons to get vaccinated is because of the grave dangers of measles. In its history measles has caused slow, miserable deaths of the people it has infected. “One of nature’s charter members is measles, which, even with WHO’s impressive efforts, still kills hundreds of thousands of children annually. Its victims die a slow, miserable, natural death as the virus overwhelms every organ within a few weeks, culminating in respiratory failure. Vaccination has saved tens of millions of lives, more than any other medical invention.” (Sepkowitz, 1) With the measles vaccine we have today, no one has to go through the pain that many people have endured. That is, if they get vaccinated. People today still have to go through the pains that measles causes since they do not get vaccinated. Another reason to get you or somebody else vaccinated is to get protection from …show more content…
But now with vaccines most of these diseases have been eradicated. “Tetanus is also a major cause of death. Most childhood diseases are now preventable with vaccines, and smallpox has been eliminated worldwide.” (Diseases, Childhood, 1) Other than smallpox many other diseases were declared eradicated with the use of vaccines. When polio was a major threat to the people in the United States many people, including children, would get paralyzed or even die from this terrible disease. But with the use of the polio vaccine cases of the disease have gone down