Hib vaccine

Ever since the invention of the smallpox vaccine, more than 200 years ago, there has been a lot of controversy surrounding the ethics, effectiveness, and safety of vaccinations. Over the past few years, it has been widely debated whether laws should be introduced that make some or all vaccines mandatory for children. Personally, I am a strong supporter of creating such laws as those who choose not to vaccinate their children put them, and others, at risk for deadly diseases. The four-way test…

essay, immunisation process involves vaccination. According to World Health Organization (2016), billions of doses of vaccines are provided to immunisation programs across the world every year. Vaccines are complex biological products developed to induce protective immune system (Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation , 2015, p. 18). In Australia, all kinds of vaccines used undergo extensive researches, stringent testing in large clinical trials, and they must be approved for use by…

benefits and risks of vaccines in today’s society is important. However, people who are against vaccines say that since many once dreaded fatal diseases have nearly disappeared from the United States, to vaccinate children against them is pointless. Continuing, childhood vaccinations provide reduced economic costs of diseases to parents. The growing concern parents have for vaccinating their children may result in making diseases more common. The recent public concern about vaccines is…

safety of vaccines receive far more advertising and attention than vaccine effectiveness, The World Health Organisation have shown that vaccinations are safer than traditional medicine. (Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety, 2003) Studies into the effects of immunisations have shown that immunisation…

of requiring parents to vaccinate their children are: those who are vaccinated will never be infected by these diseases ever again, cause herd immunity which will help stop spreading of the diseases to non-vaccinated people who are allergic to the vaccine, prevent the suffering and hurting of people from these diseases, helps source more money to hospitals, it saves time and money, mostly likely covered my health insurance and prevents any children from missing school if an outbreak were to…

The history of immunizations and vaccines in Europe and the Americas began with Edward Jenner, a British doctor who lived in Gloucestershire, England. Jenner performed the world’s first vaccination in 1796, created to protect the world against smallpox. By inoculating people with substances from a cowpox lesion, he was able to create immunity to smallpox all over the world. Vaccines and antitoxins against anthrax, diphtheria, plague, tuberculosis, and more were developed over the 1930s. Over…

Children Aged 19–35 Months, nationally less than one percent of children received no vaccinations and the Healthy People 2020 target of ninety percent coverage for vaccinations was achieved for four vaccines: poliovirus, HepB, MMR, and Varicella however coverage remained low for the combined seven-vaccine series (Hill, Elam-Evans, Yankey, Singleton, & Dietz, 2015). In addition, national disparities in vaccination coverage were seen amongst children living below the poverty line with a seven to…

days in the hospital with her underage infant, diagnosed with the disease known as, measles. The infant was too young at the time to receive any vaccinations, and because of such was at risk for contracting the disease when at a doctor’s office visit. Where there was a child who was unvaccinated, and a carrier of the disease. According to the (AJPH, 2016), it has been historically known that individuals who are not vaccinated pose a risk for other individuals in waiting room areas. Another…

Vaccinated or Else, Parents Told’ it talks about how there were more than 2,300 students who had not received the state required vaccinations to allow their students into the school system. In Prince George’s county, the students are required to receive vaccines for the chicken pox and hepatitis B to go to school, the county reached out to all the parents and tried to inform the parents of the severity of the situation. After the deadline of the vaccinations, the county sent letters to the…

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that introducing vaccines has led to more than 99 percent reduction of mortality and morbidity for measles, diphtheria, polio, rubella, and smallpox (Mooney, 3). Vaccination is one of the strategies used to prevent disease in children (Bronfin, 1). However, debates have circulated surrounding the question of whether or not parents should have the choice to vaccinate or not vaccinate their child. The decision of the parent to vaccinate his or her child…