The Ethicality Of Vaccines Research

For centuries we have been working to come up with vaccines that help with disease. With new technology vaccines have now become part of modern medicine. According to Immunisation advisory Centre, “Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology in 1796, by demonstrating immunity to small pox” (Pg1). With Edward Jenner’s findings, we have been able to develop vaccines that help with all different kinds of diseases. Vaccines are very important because they have saved millions in the United States from diseases and illnesses that could’ve killed them. Although there are still a few diseases that do not have effective vaccines, hopefully with time and money we will find vaccines and keep saving millions of lives. However, not every parent …show more content…
According to Public Health “this scare started in 1997 with a study that was published suggesting that certain vaccines were increasing autism in British children. Since, this paper has been discredited because of errors, financial conflicts and ethical violations. The publishers medical license was pulled and so was the study, but it did not stop others from linking other articles to his study” (Pg1). Vaccines were never proven or disproven to cause autism. The article just stated that the article that tried to prove vaccines caused autism was discredited because of errors. Parents still believe that vaccines can cause autism because people are taking the hypothesis from the vaccine autism article and are incorporating their own research to prove that vaccines could cause …show more content…
Not getting vaccines could lead to one of the biggest outbreaks the United States may ever see if we don’t start getting all children vaccinated. According to science daily “there has been re-emergence of measles, mumps, diphtheria, and other vaccine preventable diseases. Several factors have contributed to the resurgence of diseases including the anti vaccine movement, the decreasing effectiveness of certain vaccines, adaptation of disease causing pathogens, and travel to other countries where disease rates are higher” (Pg1). This article provides evidence that not vaccinating your child allows for a resurgence of diseases. Whooping cough made a huge resurgence in 2012 leading to a huge outbreak because people were not getting vaccinated anymore. The same thing has happened with measles as well. If traveling abroad is becoming a factor in disease, then as a society we need to test people as soon as they get back for any diseases, so that there is not another outbreak of that