Vaccines

What comes to mind when you hear the word “vaccine”? Is it autism, mercury poisoning, or is it life-saving disease prevention? Well, vaccines elicit many different responses from different people. There are some who believe that vaccines cause autism and are overall harmful while others think that they are safe and do not cause autism. Attorney and writer Michael Snyder wrote a piece in 2014 voicing his opinion on the correlation between autism and vaccines. In his article Snyder calls attention…

way to protect against them would be to have a sort of invisible barrier, in this case a vaccine. However, did you know that around five percent of the children in the United States are unvaccinated? It doesn’t sound like a lot but five percent of approximately seventy four million…

Vaccine and Autism Controversy Many people are still skeptical about getting their children vaccinated because of the fear that it may cause autism. The question to whether vaccines causes autism is still a controversial subject among many citizens today especially parents. The theory that vaccines cause autism were based on unproven facts and falsified information. Some citizens argues that vaccines are not safe and could potentially cause autism. Even though there is no scientific evidence to…

Influenza. So that’s why we use vaccines. Vaccinations? Do they work? Why do I need this shot? I will end up being sick, right? These are questions that most everyone in our society asks when it comes to vaccinating their child or themselves. Vaccines are good for a lot of things, such as, promoting economic growth, extending life expectancy, they protect people from spreading or acquiring the disease, and vaccines can save tons of lives. To start off, Vaccines trigger our immune systems to be…

Are vaccines hurting our children? Did you know in the state of Ohio as long as a student presents a written note from their parent or guardian they do not have to be immunized before entering grade school. In fact, parents or guardians may deny immunization to their children for reasons of conscience, or religious convictions. Many students have went to school without vaccination just because their parent or guardian’s conscience told them not to protect their own children from deadly diseases…

topic of immunizations, both of them stated being up to date as far as they know on immunizations. When asked if they received an influenza vaccine this season, however, they said no. When exploring the topic, Jared said he had no reason not to, just something his parents never had required. Levi on the other hand, was pretty adamant about influenza vaccines being a hoax by the government. Levi is at an obvious need for education on the subject. It made me wonder if the parents had taught this…

susceptible to disasters, both natural and man-made, and disease. An example of this can be found by looking through research done by Schwarz (2008) in distributing Hepatitis B vaccines. In the city there are funds set aside for free vaccines to be distributed to the homeless. However past attempts to distribute this vaccine to the population resulted in a…

MMR VACCINE This immunization vaccine against Measles, Mumps and Rubella (German measles) was first developed by Maurice Hilleman at Merck. The vaccine is a live attenuated virus of the three diseases; Measles, Mumps & Rubella administered via injection. The first measles licensed vaccine was in the year 1963 and was improved after 5 years. Vacines for mumps became available in the year 1967 and that of rubella at 1969. The three vaccines were combined to form measles, mumps, rubella vaccine at…

According to the Center for Disease Control, there is no federal law that mandates children to obtain vaccines, but all 50 states require children entering schools to have mandatory vaccines. However, nineteen states allow philosophical exemptions to the mandate. Large groups of parents have formed who oppose vaccines due to the cost and potential medical dangers to their children (“Should Any Vaccines Be Required for Children?). This is not acceptable, as not making complete mandates poses a…

Allowed in Flu Vaccines Recently, flu vaccines are pushed on everyone, even to the elderly, pregnant women and babies. However, extremely high levels of mercury have been found in these vaccines. The flu vaccines produced in Britain contain 25.000 times more neurotoxic mercury than it is legally allowed in drinking water. The national regulatory agencies failed to conduct safety testing about the levels of mercury in the vaccines. Luckily, other laboratories analyzed the vaccines using an…