Mumps

Vaccines: The Safer Option The topic of whether one should get vaccinated or whether one should get their child get vaccinated has always been debatable. Are they safe? Do they really work and are they effective? Recent outbreaks like the measles incident in Disneyland in California in 2014 to 2015 has brought the topic back into the public eye. According to an article by Rong-Gong Lin from the LA Times, legislation in Sacramento intended to induce more parents to get their children the…

The Truth Behind the Needle Adults and parents across America want to make the best decisions regarding maintaining good health. With good health comes considering whether to receive vaccinations or not. Proponents of immunization advocate for mandatory vaccination as a part of health care regimes. Research shows that vaccines can save lives and are safe to be distributed into humans. By becoming vaccinated, it reaps benefits on the economy as well as helps protect future generations from…

The history of vaccines goes way back to 1000 CE. A vaccine timeline on historyofvaccines.org shows that there is evidence that the Chinese in early 1000 CE employed a smallpox inoculation and it was also practiced through Africa and Turkey as well (History of Vaccines). The next big vaccine epidemic started with Edward Jenner. He was a very successful man when his use of cowpox material to create immunity to smallpox quickly made the practice wide-spread in 1796. Edward Jenner took pus from a…

Summary: In this article published in 2000, featured by WebMD, it talks about the link between childhood autism and the MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella) cocktail vaccine. It gives examples of children like Eric Gallup, a 15 month old child that received the cocktail shot. After a short amount of time his parents noticed a change in his behavior and his ability to communicate. Eric received…

A vaccine is a biological product that helps humans or other animals develop immunities that protect them from one or more diseases. English doctor Edwin Jenner developed the first vaccine in 1796 to create an immunity to smallpox after noticing that women who contracted cowpox from milking cows did not develop smallpox. Jenner used material from these women’s cowpox sores to manufacture his vaccine. This origin gave the word vaccine its name, which is rooted in vacca, the Latin word for cow.…

unhealthiest due to the side effects that persist in each vaccine. (Should, 119) A third argument is that all vaccines help stop the virus from affecting individuals, which is incorrect. For example in 2006, the large outbreak of mumps, 92% of the cases were vaccinated against the mumps. (Miller) Although there are many arguments trying to prove that vaccinations should be required, parents should be able to decide whether or not vaccination is the best option due to the fact that their child…

Getting the MMR vaccine or the Flu vaccine doesn’t eliminate you form every getting measles, mumps, or rubella. Getting your vaccinations just heighten your chances of building an immune. If the virus ever invalids someone, they have a high chance of getting through it and coming out stronger. (NIH. par. 5) 69 doses of 16 different vaccines is a…

Flu season has started you look around yourself and you see that more and more people are getting sick. They’re spreading their germs through their runny nose, their coughing, their sneezing, and what they touch… Before you know it you’ll get sick as well and you’ll be the one spreading illness to the ones around you. But this can all be easily avoided. From the common cold to an outbreak of a deadly disease, getting vaccinated can save you and the ones around you from getting sick. Diseases…

Three hypotheses have been proposed to support this: the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine causes autism by damaging the intestinal lining, allowing the entrance of encephalopathic proteins; thimerosal, an ethylmercury-containing preservative, is toxic to the central nervous system; and the administration of multiple…

key to public health. Infectious diseases that once were common in this country have been brought under control or eliminated completely. The list is long, including polio, measles, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), rubella (German measles), mumps, tetanus, and influenza. Perhaps one of the most devastating diseases in history was smallpox, which is almost unheard of now, thanks to a vaccine. Literally millions of lives have been saved by immunizations against disease. Not only does…