Vaccinations Should be Mandatory for Children to Attend School
Introduction
Every year, vaccines are credited with preventing approximately 14 million infections (Sherman, 2011). Without vaccines, millions of people would suffer from diseases that can be prevented. In order to see a change in the world from vaccinations, parents needs to vaccinate their children. One of the most important advances in the history of medicine is vaccinations.
Vaccinations are used to make someone immune to an infectious disease. To trigger an immune system response, how the body responds to diseases, vaccines are loaded with microorganisms, a microscopic organism. A common vaccine consists of a weakened pathogen, an organism that causes diseases. The pathogen could also have been altered so that it cannot cause illness. When a vaccine is administered, pathogens enter the body. For that reason, the immune system creates antibodies, a substance produced by the body to to fight a disease, to destroy it. Multiple forms of vaccinations exist. For example, they can contain live viruses or live bacteria from an infectious disease. These viruses have been determined to be harmless by the …show more content…
In developing countries the measles killed one to two million children (Hendriks & Blume, 2013). The measles virus infected 500,000 Americans per year before the vaccine was distributed in 1963. This caused 48,000 hospitalizations and 500 deaths. However, the numbers have fallen to 60 people infected in recent years because of travelers who were not vaccinated (Szabo, 2014). The measles vaccine was created in 1967, 11.7 million doses of this vaccine were distributed. The number of measles cases dropped from 900,000 to 25,000 (Hendriks & Blume, 2013). The rise of measles has one cause, children not being vaccinated. “Boarders can’t stop measles, but vaccination can,” CDC director, Tom Frieden
Introduction
Every year, vaccines are credited with preventing approximately 14 million infections (Sherman, 2011). Without vaccines, millions of people would suffer from diseases that can be prevented. In order to see a change in the world from vaccinations, parents needs to vaccinate their children. One of the most important advances in the history of medicine is vaccinations.
Vaccinations are used to make someone immune to an infectious disease. To trigger an immune system response, how the body responds to diseases, vaccines are loaded with microorganisms, a microscopic organism. A common vaccine consists of a weakened pathogen, an organism that causes diseases. The pathogen could also have been altered so that it cannot cause illness. When a vaccine is administered, pathogens enter the body. For that reason, the immune system creates antibodies, a substance produced by the body to to fight a disease, to destroy it. Multiple forms of vaccinations exist. For example, they can contain live viruses or live bacteria from an infectious disease. These viruses have been determined to be harmless by the …show more content…
In developing countries the measles killed one to two million children (Hendriks & Blume, 2013). The measles virus infected 500,000 Americans per year before the vaccine was distributed in 1963. This caused 48,000 hospitalizations and 500 deaths. However, the numbers have fallen to 60 people infected in recent years because of travelers who were not vaccinated (Szabo, 2014). The measles vaccine was created in 1967, 11.7 million doses of this vaccine were distributed. The number of measles cases dropped from 900,000 to 25,000 (Hendriks & Blume, 2013). The rise of measles has one cause, children not being vaccinated. “Boarders can’t stop measles, but vaccination can,” CDC director, Tom Frieden