Vaccine controversy

professionals revere the vaccine as one of the best medical advances to have ever been created. The invention of the vaccine has eradicated polio from the western hemisphere and has rendered smallpox completely extinct. Every year it is estimated that children adhering to the vaccination schedule prevent 42,000 deaths and twenty million infections (Timmer). Still, though, the rates of intentionally unvaccinated children are on the rise. Parents are fueled by fears that vaccines are not safe or…

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…

swollen beyond recognition, and hemorrhaging from every area imaginable, including out of the blisters on his skin, it was recognized that a vaccine existed. A vaccine that could have prevented the unimaginable suffering of this child. Would Christopher still be alive if he or someone else had been vaccinated?” (Unprotected People Reports:…

“Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents … no longer have to worry about their child’s death or disability from whooping cough, polio … or a host of other infections” (Emanuel). In the last decade, childhood vaccinations have been subjected to controversy, but when in reality vaccines have been saving millions of children from hospitalizations and premature death. Parental figures should give physicians or other medical professionals the consent to…

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…

Rhetorical Strategies in“8 Reasons Parents Don’t Vaccinate (And Why They Should)” by Tara Haelle Recently, more and more parents have grown skeptical of vaccinations, claiming they are dangerous and can cause an array of negative side effects. Author Tara Haelle wrote, “8 Reasons Parents Don’t Vaccinate (And Why They Should),” shortly after the 2015 measles outbreak in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, in order to address these popular concerns and eliminate them. Haelle cites a number…

For many that are put in this position of opposing vaccinations I just have one consideration to add to this controversy look at the scholarly facts and evolution of vaccinations. Numerous studies prove that vaccines may trigger problems like autism, ADHD and diabetes but this is also the number one false reason individuals will wave immunizations and avoid them. A study done by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System showed that the side effects that are noted by individuals have nothing to…

across the United States, so does the controversy surrounding measles vaccinations. The conflict between parents who refuse to vaccinate their children and parents who fully believe in the vaccination is being propagated by several bills, such as a new legislation in California requiring schoolchildren to get vaccinated unless there was a medical reason. But this new legislation raises another question: is the ability to refuse to give your child a vaccine an expression of class privilege?…

negative associations with vaccines spread by people, just as rumors are. That’s not to say that they don’t make good arguments…

Cure or Poison: Vaccinations When you think of vaccines, what comes to your mind? Do you think of a 16th-century medical advancement that has the ability to eradicate some of the most dangerous diseases in the world, or do you see a toxin that has the ability to change the chemistry of the brain? Ever since the invention of the first smallpox vaccine more than two centuries ago, by an English Physician Edward Jenner, there has been a lot of controversy over the principles, ethics, potency and…