Vaccines: Is It Worth The Pinch?

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Is it Worth the Pinch ? : the effectiveness and controversy of vaccines

Remember when we were small {well one some of us} we were terrified of the huge monstrous needles called vaccines but, later on when it was the time of the shot it was well only a pinch . well that's not the reason of this essay.before that the doctor would tell your mom that you needed these vaccine to be able go to school or just for your health . eventually your mom or dad resarch and eventually would find many

Edward Jenner was a doctor from england .Which he lived during the years of smallpox in Europe . In those days there was a wide spread of the smallpox . Smallpox comes from Cowpox . So his thinking was if the milkmaids who got a mild case of cowpox
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This disease was highly contagious especially because that this time it was much of cultural economy. The virus has overtaken almost half of the population of England therefore the vaccine was such a helpful medical advancement that it works so much that even small pump does not release it to me because of the vaccines that are that made us immune to smallpox. have you heard of diphtheria? I don't really think so,well diphtheria is an acute, very contagious bacterial disease causing inflammation of the mucous membranes, formation of a false membrane in the throat that hinders breathing and swallowing, and potentially fatal heart and nerve damage by a bacterial toxin in the blood. It is now rare in developed countries because of immunization. Actually the cases that were called before the vaccine was in the United States (usa) ONLY. Anyways after the vaccine was made it was zero cases of polio in the U.S.A was made there were The vaccine has taken 100% possibility to get this virus . thanks to the help of vaccines virus it's practically does not longer exist . another example That vaccine to work effectively is Polio I think you have heard of polio.anyways Polio is an infectious viral disease that affects the central nervous system and can cause temporary or permanent paralysis. In the Usa there was only 16,316 cases before the invention of the vaccine for polio . after the vaccine was made there were and are no cases of polio.For the last example we have the bubonic plague the most common form of plague in humans, characterized by fever, delirium, and the formation of buboes. The bubonic plague is caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. It can spread through

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