After waiting patiently for nine months to meet their precious newborn many parents are apprehensive of any medical treatment being performed on them just hours after they are born. Doctors do their best to explain the importance of each exam and test being performed, however, hearing an infants scream due to a vaccine isn’t very reassuring. Between the time the newborn leaves the hospital and their 18th birthday their parents will make countless decisions on behalf of them. The decisions range from small mundane ones such as what they eat, wear, and what time they go to bed, to large decisions involving their health and wellbeing. Any adult who has taken a history class knows that the health of a society is what allows it to progress and to
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In fact in an article published in the Denton Record-Chronicle, the professor stated, “Parents who opt out of children’s immunizations do so because of persistent misinformation about a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism (Breeding). The misinformation that Witolf Migala is referring to, is the article published in 1998 in the British journal, The Lancet, in which Dr. Andrew Wakefield said this, “Rubella virus is associated with autism and the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine… has also been implicated.”(Willingham, …show more content…
The ingredients contained in the vial also causes worry. In the early 1900s vaccines had a tendency to become contaminated with bacteria causing more harm to the recipient(s) than good. In order to combat the bacteria growth doctors needed a preservative that wouldn’t alter the vaccine’s effectiveness (Baker). Thimersoal, which is a mercury containing antibacterial preservative was added to the vaccine. The thimersoal was found to not be harmful, at the time, to the body because the length of time it stays in the body is very short and the amount is so small it was not found to be dangerous to humans (“Thimersoal in Vaccines”). By 1940 thimersoal was placed into vaccines such as: diphtheria toxoid, meningococcal serum, pertussis and others. The concern of parents grew immensely when an Iraqi study of infants exposed to an agent closely related to thimersoal showed children having developmental delays
In fact in an article published in the Denton Record-Chronicle, the professor stated, “Parents who opt out of children’s immunizations do so because of persistent misinformation about a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism (Breeding). The misinformation that Witolf Migala is referring to, is the article published in 1998 in the British journal, The Lancet, in which Dr. Andrew Wakefield said this, “Rubella virus is associated with autism and the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine… has also been implicated.”(Willingham, …show more content…
The ingredients contained in the vial also causes worry. In the early 1900s vaccines had a tendency to become contaminated with bacteria causing more harm to the recipient(s) than good. In order to combat the bacteria growth doctors needed a preservative that wouldn’t alter the vaccine’s effectiveness (Baker). Thimersoal, which is a mercury containing antibacterial preservative was added to the vaccine. The thimersoal was found to not be harmful, at the time, to the body because the length of time it stays in the body is very short and the amount is so small it was not found to be dangerous to humans (“Thimersoal in Vaccines”). By 1940 thimersoal was placed into vaccines such as: diphtheria toxoid, meningococcal serum, pertussis and others. The concern of parents grew immensely when an Iraqi study of infants exposed to an agent closely related to thimersoal showed children having developmental delays