Even as modern medicine has significantly produced the current quality of life, work on behalf of the average person could improve it more. This day and age provides modern wonders such as heart transplants, chemotherapy, and arthroscopic surgery. However, due to unfounded claims and improper scientific study, some of the population (namely the affluent and gullible) has started to believe that vaccination causes diseases or disorders, instead of preventing them. It is important to be properly vaccinated because proper vaccination creates herd immunity, saves lives, and helps prevent superbugs from being born. Despite the claims of several celebrities, vaccination is not a bad thing.…
State Required Vaccination Currently to enroll I public school in all fifty states and the District of Columbia require children to be vaccinated for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, measles and rubella. Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia require chickenpox vaccination, and forty-five states and the District of Colombia require hepatitis B vaccination for children to enroll in kindergarten. These laws act in the public’s favor, they protect children from potentially deadly diseases, and pose no health risk to the children they are administered to. Due to these two reasons the current legislation that exists is ultimately a good thing. Children that are vaccinated against a disease develop an immunity ninety to one hundred percent of the time depending on the disease.…
Parents should be required by law to vaccinate their children due to the fact that it will prevent deadly diseases from harming the general public who have not…
Childhood vaccinations are very important in today’s century. Vaccines are injections or shots that can help prevent deadly disease. Vaccines work by giving the body immunity to certain diseases without getting the actual disease itself. Even though they are not mandatory, all 50 states require children to have certain vaccines to enter public schools. Each year vaccines save approximately 2.5 million children from preventable disease, and ones that agree with mandatory vaccinations say that they are safe; in fact ones who agree say that vaccinations are one of the best health developments today (Procon.org).…
Vaccinations in schools around the U.S has been one of the biggest controversies that has ever come up before. Religious beliefs have been one of the largest problems. It in its self has brought a big controversy because some religions are against getting vaccinations. Also people with health issues have been a great drawback in getting people vaccinated. But the importance of keeping the children safe around the country out ways the negative side.…
Vaccines have been proven to aid people rather than harm them as shown by the mass media. Statistics have shown that since the introduction of vaccines to our society, not only have mortality rates decreased, but the prevalence of killer diseases has dropped dramatically. To this day, numerous studies and research is being conducted to continue exploring the many possibilities there are to protect the people from the many diseases that wreak havoc all across the world. Mandatory vaccinations for children are essential, if we want to make sure that they will well and safe for generations to…
Countless doctors around the world have given the all right to vaccinations, and often state that children should be vaccinated. All children should be vaccinated to prevent the spread of known diseases,…
It is important to realize, however, that vaccines are most advantageous when the majority of children in the country have been immunized so that “herd immunity” can come into play. That way, all children across the entire nation can be protected from diseases like the German measles and the whooping cough, and if enough time is allowed to pass, these diseases could be entirely wiped out. Hence, childhood vaccinations should be required if people wish to keep today’s as well as future generations safe from life-threatening viruses. Right now, a child may literally be just a handshake away from contracting the whooping cough, but if people choose to mandate child vaccinations, then that child can be saved, and much heartache can be…
Childhood Vaccinations Annotated Bibliography In this day and age there is a lot of controversy over whether it is still necessary for all children to receive vaccinations, and whether vaccines are responsible for developmental disorders in children. There are some that say parents that don’t vaccinate their children should be jailed, however there are parents that allege vaccinations have led to developmental disorders in their children, and in some cases even death. The Center for Disease Control (CDC), Food Drug Administration (FDA), and nearly all health organizations say that the allegations are ludicrous.…
The last reason why children should be vaccinated is because child vaccination helps the elderly as well. For example, if the child is ill and it is contagious, it will affect elderly because they are the one who is looking after that child. As we all know that, if elderly gets sick they cannot handle themselves because they are too old to fight for it. Firstly, they do not have enough strength to fight. One of the research (nia.nih.gov) says that, “Our immune system is a complicated network of cells, tissues, and organs to keep us healthy and fight off disease and infection.…
In todays society it is becoming a norm and trend for parents choosing not to vaccinate their children. Disregarding any laws or requirements by schools. They claim that these vaccinations cause other illnesses like autism and vaccination goes against their religion and personal beliefs. These vaccines help prevent and immunize children from measles, small pox, whooping cough, and various other diseases that might cause an epidemic in their community. California has seen many outbreaks in disease in the past decade, a spread of disease that could have been prevented by the vaccination of children.…
“Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents … no longer have to worry about their child’s death or disability from whooping cough, polio … or a host of other infections” (Emanuel). In the last decade, childhood vaccinations have been subjected to controversy, but when in reality vaccines have been saving millions of children from hospitalizations and premature death. Parental figures should give physicians or other medical professionals the consent to vaccinate their child from a number of infections, to strengthen the child’s immune system, and to give society and other people benefits in their everyday life. For over a century, vaccines have provided parts of the world with preventable care for certain…
Doctor Robert W. Sears, author of The Vaccination Book: Making the Right Decisions for Your Child, once said, “With the growing mistrust of vaccinations... more and more parents are saying no to vaccines. Illnesses that are very rare right now, that most parents don’t have to fear...” Vaccines have been used for decades, and have continued to change and advance as the scientific field has gained more knowledge on defeating a multitude of diseases and sicknesses. The question is how are vaccines affecting a community? Some of the most well-known diseases with elaborate vaccines well ahead of their time are smallpox, and polio, which helped shape the community of today.…
Mrs. Hodge agrees with mandatory vaccination. “It’s so scary to think you could be at the park enjoying a nice day with your kids and then the next day they could [have a] deathly disease. . . . I am a firm believer in vaccinations.” (Parkins 440). Unvaccinated children could be dangerous to other children around them.…
Child Vaccinations Every parent would want their child to be happy, healthy, and do the best for them. This is possible through vaccinations. How exactly do vaccines work?…