The Importance Of Immunization

Immunization is a big issue today. especially between parents. They are divided into two groups - one which is for immunization and the other which is against it. However, do we know what immunization is? Why should we be immunized? My opinion is that immunization is very important and everybody should be immunized. I’m 100% for immunization, because (I think) it’s the best way to protect the population from epidemic situations. Immunization, also called vaccination, is the process by which an individual’s immune system becomes fortified against an agent - known as the immunogen. (en.wikipedia.org) Our immune system helps our body fight germs by producing substances to combat them. Once it does, the immune system "remembers" the germ and …show more content…
Travel will be so hard. Before I became a foreign exchange student, I had to have certain immunization. Every country has a different list of required immunizations. My parents are for immunization, so it was not a big problem. I discussed this topic with my doctor and she said that the children, which have “modern” parents against immunization, will not be able to be a foreign exchange student or travel abroad. Why is that? Because one cannot apply five or six (missing) vaccines in one day. Some of these have a two or three parts, so one has to have time to do it. For example, I missed two vaccinations: one was “hepatitis A” and another was “meningococcus”. The “hepatitis A” has two parts which have to be applied at intervals of six months. The first one they applied in December, so the second one I had in June. Between this time, we had to find time for “meningoccocus”. They applied it in March (somewhere in the middle between “the hepatitis A” vaccine). It was so tough because I had to send my health application in July. My doctor said that the “modern” children will definitely not able to do it. Because they will have a lack of time and a lot …show more content…
In my country, we have no requirement vaccination for a flu. This vaccination has to be applied every year. A few years ago my mom decided to take one of them. After she took it, she had a bad headache and higher temperature; but these are common side effects. However, this was happening two weeks after, so she visited a doctor. They found that she has hyperfunction of thyroid gland. Before this, she was fine. She had a few examination before she took this vaccine and they didn’t find anything. There is no proof that this vaccination caused her issue with the thyroid gland, but she doesn’t want us to take a flu