Vaccines

A vaccine is a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against diseases. Although many patients could obtain side effects such as soreness at the injection site or a fever. Some serious vaccine reactions are extremely rare, but can happen. The article “Vaccines for Children” states “No vaccine is 100 percent effective in preventing disease or 100 percent safe in all individuals” (Vaccines for Children). One could believe that vaccines should not be mandatory…

times multiple vaccines are given together, which makes it hard to detect which vaccine gave the patient a reaction.What your body receives from natural exposure to infections compared to artificial, temporary, usually inferior immunity vaccines are never 100% protective (Mercola). Parents should do more research on the vaccinations they give their children because there is vaccines that are more harmful than beneficial. Vaccines can save lives, Vaccines serious side effects, Vaccines…

“Vaccines are the most cost-effective healthcare interventions there are. A dollar spent on a childhood vaccination not only helps save a life, but greatly reduces spending on future healthcare” (Ezekiel Emanuel). Ever since vaccines demonstrated that they offered protection against smallpox, vaccines has been continually used to protect against any serious disease. Illness and death rates are low due to the vaccines. Some of those vaccines saves life against other serious disease. Immunization…

incorporating a flu vaccine every year. I worked in a dental office, and we were given a choice every year to receive the vaccination or not. My employer paid for the vaccine; therefore, every year I would decide to roll my sleeve up, and endure the dreadful sting of a needle impaling my skin. One year, a few months after receiving the vaccine, I fell with fever, my body ached all over, and I paid a visit to my doctor. I was diagnosed with the flu. After further research, the flu vaccine is not…

Target Population Nigeria has many problems to attest to and one of them is the administration of vaccines. We have to educate and target the older generation to make sure that they can get their children vaccinated. There are people there who do not believe in injecting chemicals into the body, because they feel it will do more harm than good. Furthermore, there are some people that believe that the epidemics and pandemics that are occurring will be cured by spiritual understanding and homemade…

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…

money for public health care in struggling countries that lack education. Many researchers believe that vaccines are more important; however, I argue that they aren’t emphasized as they should be because vaccines are vital for developing countries, the infectious disease more dangerous with each growing strain, and diseases affect children quicker than others. Due to this, I am arguing that vaccines should be distributed without restraint and on a priority basis to underdeveloped countries as…

The techniques and beliefs held by both the proponents and opponents of vaccines are worthy of study due to their shocking similarity. This suggests that this debate may be the precursor for a new form of scientific public debate and is therefore worthy of more study than it has been given. The proponents and the opponents of the modern vaccine debate both use a wide variety of rhetoric techniques, and it is not uncommon to read two articles written with different opinions but identical in their…

My chosen exemplar is Edward Jenner (1749-1823). Edward Jenner is the discoverer of the smallpox vaccine during the eighteenth century which saved many lives at that time and still till this day. Jenner has been widely known as the ‘father of immunology’. Jenner’s publication of his findings that cowpox could protect against the fatal disease, smallpox, gotten him support by the scientific community. Jenner was also promoting vaccination among the poor. Jenner went on to form many scientific…

The debate on vaccines has caused distrust between parents and medical officials; now parents are not getting their children vaccinated, the government is stepping and the children are the ones stuck in the middle of this fight. In this paper, we will examine why this debate persists despite the fact that science has proven. What has parents so against vaccines, what is the government doing, and how is this effecting children. All three of these topic areas will help me show what this debate is…