The Necessity of Children Vaccination
The vaccine refusal has already become a social issue. In “Who’s Afraid of a Little Vaccine,” Jeffery Kluger cites evidence that California clocks in at just a 92.7% rate for MMR vaccine and a 92.5% rate for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis., and Colorado rolls in last at a woeful 85.7% and 82.9%. A large number of young parents who hold negative attitudes towards immunization refuse to vaccinate their children. According to Kluger, the higher the education background the parents have, the lower the vaccine rate for their children. This is because they trust themselves too much to understand the non-vaccine risk. This, as a result, causes the return of certain epidemic diseases back into the public, which then threatens the population. So it is necessary for parents to accept children vaccination (Kluger 1).
The children need to get vaccinated, as these vaccines prevent the children from obtaining very dangerous, and sometimes deadly, diseases. Katie Gross states that vaccines reduce the risk of infection by working with the body 's natural defenses to help it safely develop immunity to the …show more content…
As mentioned above, vaccines help develop immunity by imitating an infection. However, this "imitation" infection does not cause illness. Rather it causes the immune system to develop the same response as it normally does to a real infection, in order for the body to recognize and fight the vaccine-preventable disease in the future. In “Childhood Immunization: When Physicians and Parents Disagree,” Joan Gilmour explains that sometimes a child may experience minor symptoms (i.e. a fever) following a vaccine due to this imitation infection. Such minor symptoms are normal and should be expected as the body builds immunity (Gilmour
The vaccine refusal has already become a social issue. In “Who’s Afraid of a Little Vaccine,” Jeffery Kluger cites evidence that California clocks in at just a 92.7% rate for MMR vaccine and a 92.5% rate for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis., and Colorado rolls in last at a woeful 85.7% and 82.9%. A large number of young parents who hold negative attitudes towards immunization refuse to vaccinate their children. According to Kluger, the higher the education background the parents have, the lower the vaccine rate for their children. This is because they trust themselves too much to understand the non-vaccine risk. This, as a result, causes the return of certain epidemic diseases back into the public, which then threatens the population. So it is necessary for parents to accept children vaccination (Kluger 1).
The children need to get vaccinated, as these vaccines prevent the children from obtaining very dangerous, and sometimes deadly, diseases. Katie Gross states that vaccines reduce the risk of infection by working with the body 's natural defenses to help it safely develop immunity to the …show more content…
As mentioned above, vaccines help develop immunity by imitating an infection. However, this "imitation" infection does not cause illness. Rather it causes the immune system to develop the same response as it normally does to a real infection, in order for the body to recognize and fight the vaccine-preventable disease in the future. In “Childhood Immunization: When Physicians and Parents Disagree,” Joan Gilmour explains that sometimes a child may experience minor symptoms (i.e. a fever) following a vaccine due to this imitation infection. Such minor symptoms are normal and should be expected as the body builds immunity (Gilmour