Polio

Will you vaccinate your child or let them die from a preventable disease? “Vaccines were used as early as 1000 AD”(procon.org). Since they have been around for a very long time they probably are very useful. “The first vaccine in the United States was in 1721 when Cotton Mather encouraged vaccination in response to an outbreak of smallpox”(procon.org). According to procon.org, the first smallpox vaccine was invented by Edward Jenner and was used for over two hundred years. This vaccine saved…

cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections" (Ezekiel Emanuel). Immunizations, or vaccines, have been saving lives for quite some time. The first vaccine ever was performed in 1796 by Edward Jenner. In that time period, smallpox was a huge problem in mankind. When Jenner came up with a vaccine for smallpox, the disease was eradicated! The first vaccine, was created to prevent people from getting smallpox. From there on, vaccines continued to be performed. In fact, polio…

the companies that create them; although their complaints may be valid, it has put millions of people, mostly young children, in danger. The war on vaccinations has been relevant for many years. With the decrease in cases of diseases including, Polio, Hepatitis B, Measles, Neonatal tetanus, and Tuberculosis there has also been a decrease in the number of…

Some medications and vaccines have been created in the past through this testing. A polio vaccine was the result of animal research and testing, which without, polio would still take thousands of human lives each year. “There could have been no oral polio vaccine without the use of innumerable animals, a very large number of animals,” Albert mentioned to a reporter before his demise in 1993. Multiple vaccines being created today need the animal experiments to prove them safe before supplying…

In today’s medically advanced society, all people should have access to a lifetime of good health and well-being. Some may say that in developed nations we are working towards this goal – after all, many previously deadly and debilitating childhood diseases have almost been eradicated. However, in lieu of these past threats are new developments of childhood disorders that have increased at astounding rates, and to which no cause has been identified. This flux in new childhood syndromes mirror…

healthy and able to receive them for their protection. Herd immunity is the percentage of people that need to be vaccinated in order to protect the community. Due to the community meeting the herd immunity threshold for polio in 2005, only four unvaccinated children contracted polio after an 18 month-old Amish girl contacted and spread the disease. However, in 2012, there was a huge pertussis outbreak affecting 42,000 people in the United States because in 2011, 49 states did not meet the 92-94%…

scholars permitting its usability especially the mandated vaccinations for children.” Lastly, one more opinion from one of my dear friends named Fatima and she included polio as a specific example “Yes I think they are beneficial. They have shown to prevent many diseases And they helped eradicate a lot of illnesses as well like polio. It 's basically a drug that 's helping us fight diseases that were life threatening now we don 't even see many cases because the vaccines are given at an age that…

born prematurely. She was the 20th out of 22 children. She wanted to become an African-American track and field champion but it wasn’t going to be easy. As a child she was hit with double pneumonia, scarlet fever, and polio. She had to wear a brace on her left leg because of polio. It was with Great determination and the help of physical therapy, that she was…

In Australia currently, there are no compulsory regulations in vaccinating our children, and does not require government registration or justification. It has been questioned in the media lately as to whether or not it should be made mandatory to vaccinate our children against potentially deadly viruses and diseases, and deny them government benefits as a result. In the past, exemptions for not choosing to vaccinate children have been personal, philosophical, religious, or medical belief that…

With the existence of vaccines, diseases such as whooping cough, measles, mumps, and polio are now preventable. Many years ago plenty of diseases killed or permanently disabled people. Now that vaccines exist, diseases have reduced and in some cases completely discontinued. We all have, especially mothers, doubt the beliefs in vaccines working. Vaccines are important to our health, they're made to keep us healthy, protect against viruses, and prevent diseases from attacking the body in the…