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    Vaccines get a lot of attention these days. Increasing reports of brain injuries near the time of infant vaccinations have ignited fears over the ingredients of vaccines that have bordered on hysteria. Unfortunately, there seems to be no definitive proof that vaccines actually cause brain diseases such as autism. However, there is too much evidence to support such claims of injury to ignore the risks. So whom can parents believe, and how can they decide whether to vaccinate their children?…

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    only disease that has been totally erased from the planet, which is a disease that children are vaccinated for. Society never hears of Polio in the U.S. but it is still occurring in many African countries. There were over thirty thousand cases of measles reported around the world in 2011,…

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    publication of fraudulent conclusions stating that the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine causes autism has caused unnecessary pain and death for almost twenty years, and will likely continue to do so for as long as the true cause of autism is a mystery. In 1998, the publication of Dr. Andrew Wakefield's paper in the esteemed Lancet medical journal caused widespread backlash from the scientific community for its conclusion that the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine administered during early…

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    parents do not want to vaccinate their children. These parents believe that vaccinations are manipulating the immune system, instead of enhancing it (Knopper 40). Vaccinations are a blessing. In the past, it was very common to die from diphtheria, measles, or the whooping cough (Wilson 34). It was also common to suffer paralyses because of polio, be born deaf, or be born blind because of congenital rubella (Wilson 34). In the past, 1 in 3 children died before their fifth birthday (Wilson…

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    MMR Vaccines

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    extensive use of the measles-mumps-rubella MMR vaccine has allegedly overlapped with an increase in the frequency of autism in California. The measles virus used in the MMR vaccine is a live weakened virus that normally causes no symptoms or only very mild ones. However, wild-type measles can infect the central nervous system and even cause post infectious encephalomyelitis, probably because of an immune-mediated response to myelin proteins. A population-based study of measles, mumps, and…

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    Also, some parents do not believe that vaccines can prevent diseases, such as chickenpox and measles even though these viruses are serious. On the other hand, many people doesn’t believe in vaccines because vaccinations might damage their kids immune system. As a result, when kids take a vaccines shot, there is a vast majority that there can be a…

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    Why Is Vaccine Important

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    Vaccines are commonly used by health care workers. Nurses, Doctors, and Paramedics . It's consider important and therefore can raised a lot of question and dough on its and benefits, and side-effect. The importance of vaccine make know to us by advertisement, newspapers, and schools, and billboards. and the study of health books, also internet researches. Immunizations in adult is often taken for granted especially in men. Lack of interest in Doctors visit, and sometimes people are…

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    Mmr Vaccines Essay

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    comes from the confusion between coincidence and causality. Autism develops around the time when vaccines are given, somewhere around 2 years. So this makes it seem as though vaccines are what is causing the autism. Many studies have shown that the measles vaccine (also other vaccines) don't cause autism. Most…

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    Take measles for example; the vaccine for measles prior to the 2000s had only been used by sixteen percent of people around the world. Measles was written as the cause of death on around two hundred and fifty million death certificates. However, after the 2000s when seventy-two percent of children were vaccinated, the number of deaths dropped by millions. Therefore, if children continually are getting vaccinated at a steady rate of the next few years, it is quite possible that the measles will…

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    but certain famous spokespeople and and the ever increasing amount of google degrees held by parents makes this hard to dispel for everyone. But even if it did cause autism, why would you let your child suffer from terrible diseases like polio or measles? Is having a child whose brain is wired the same as all the other “normal” kids more important than them not catching a preventable disease that would cause suffering and possibly death, all because you didn’t want an autistic child? Autism…

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