After watching The Vaccine War, the main concerns of vaccines are public safety, the aftermath of injecting harmful chemicals into ones’ body and the parents that choose not to vaccinate their children. In the beginning of the documentary, a mother, Jennifer Margulis, states she felt like it was not needed for her newborn child to be vaccinated for a sexual transmitted disease. She feels like the ingredients are scary for a young child to take in with an immature immune system. The other issue is…
The war against HIV …. The presence of HIV was tracked back to 1920 in Africa. There have been numerous attempts to stop HIV contraction through precautionary measures and detection and prevent progression once HIV has infected. The development of an effective process to fight the infection is crucial to sustain the disease and prevent spread, especially in poor and populated countries. But what if infection of HIV could be obstructed all together? Recent studies have explored the effect of seminal…
The debate on vaccines has caused distrust between parents and medical officials; now parents are not getting their children vaccinated, the government is stepping and the children are the ones stuck in the middle of this fight. In this paper, we will examine why this debate persists despite the fact that science has proven. What has parents so against vaccines, what is the government doing, and how is this effecting children. All three of these topic areas will help me show what this debate is all…
to the recent measles outbreak which originated at Disneyland, a place where families and children should be able to feel safe (Gonzalez). Unnecessary suffering and death has been the result for many (“Measles Cases and Outbreaks”). The diseases vaccines are designed to prevent are highly contagious, and when enough people choose not to immunize, the public is greatly affected (“Community Immunity”). It is for these reasons that I believe public places should be able to deny entrance for all able…
Introduction Vaccines were a major technological advance in medicine. Vaccines provided a quick, simple, and accessible way for people to develop immunity to a certain disease before experiencing the symptoms. Although vaccines diminished the number of cases of these diseases dramatically, certain groups of people started to oppose immunization, sparking a “vaccine war.” These groups of people reject vaccination due to the side effects linked to vaccines, the belief that an individual has a right…
decision if a local outbreak occurred” (Brown, Kroll, & Hudson, 2010). Fortunately, humans are living longer, but with living longer creates the bigger issue that life long immunity might not last as long as the average human life lives today. The MMR vaccine is administered in two different individual components. Pursellstated, “First, assuming the same vaccination schedule that currently exists for MMR (two doses, one in the second year of life, and one preschool), this would require six injections,…
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…
Vaccination Debate There are more than 10 million vaccines per year given to children less than 1 year old, usually between 2 and 6 months of age. The definition of a vaccine is, any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production (Dictionary). Meaning the act of using a kind preventive measures to fight against any sort…
epidemics in the United States history and the widespread panic created by it could have continued longer without the polio vaccine’s inventor, Jonas Salk. Although Jonas Salk’s intentions and methods were called into question by many, his Poliomyelitis vaccine ended the polio epidemic of the early-mid 20th century. Background On October 28, 1914, Jonas Salk was born in New York City, New York, to Daniel and Dora Salk. While growing up, he was an exceptional student and excelled in school. He attended…
This dissertation is dedicated to the vaccine choice activists who gave me a voice and cut a path ahead of me. This is for my children and their children’s children. May they know that their lives and freedoms were always worth fighting for and that they know how to cut a path as well. Introduction It’s a trap, a catch-22; whether a person wants to have an opinion of vaccinations or not, they will ultimately have to take a position. Friends, family, and strangers will judge their choice…