Childhood Vaccination Case Studies

Childhood vaccination have become commonplace in this day and age. Within the first year of a child’s life it is recommended that they be given vaccinations that cover a wide range of illness such as tetanus and Hep B vaccination or the more commonly known measles, rubella and mumps vaccination or MMR vaccine for short. (find note) However in the most recent years there has been a movement to not have children vaccinated for various reasons, such as people believing that the some vaccines had been found to cause both mental and physical problems in some children and if the effectiveness of the vaccines are really worth the risks. I believe that vaccination should be given to children in order to prevent infections and I will discuss the recent anti measles movement to explain my reasoning for this belief. Measles was a disease that was estimated to have killed over 200 million people from 1855 to 2005. (find note). While the disease itself can be life threatening another major problem with the …show more content…
Andrew Wakefield(find note) in which he found that a number of patients who had received the MMR vaccine had developed developmental disorders such as autism and crohn’s disease. While many people cite this research as a reason to not get the vaccine it has been proven that this report was false. It is also noted that research has shown that there is no credible link between the MMR vaccine and autism and that the paper that had been written by Dr. Andrew Wakefield had been found to have been fabricated. While the paper states that most of the children had been “normal” before the vaccine was given most the children had developmental issues beforehand. (find note) Also while the paper had reported that developmental issues had shown days after the vaccinations were given in fact most were months after showing no link with the vaccine and developmental issues. (find