Vaccines

There are multiple myths surrounding the influenza vaccine in which health professionals, including nurses believe and are not informed of anything different. One myth health professionals believe is that they will acquire the flu as a result of obtaining their flu shot (Mion, 2013). To clarify, the definition of influenza is, as stated by Dictionary.com (2014), “An acute, commonly epidemic disease, occurring in several forms, caused by numerous rapidly mutating viral strains and characterized…

and Facts There is a vast amount of research done on vaccines and there is still much to come. One of the most common threads in research for vaccines are vaccine effectiveness and side effects caused by vaccines. The reasons for this is mostly because despite there being proof verifying vaccine’s effectiveness, many people still have doubts about vaccinations. Some people think vaccines cause disastrous side effects. Others believe that vaccines are unnecessary and unreliable. Many of these…

How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Our Youth During the rise of the polio epidemic, vaccines were godsends. Parents lined up for their children to be vaccinated against the paralysing disease. Yet recently, vaccines have been the center of controversy. Lately the idea of vaccinating one’s child can be very intimidating; mostly due to the fact that not all parents possess the knowledge of a pediatrician or vaccinologist( Salmon, Daniel). The anti-vaccine movement and parental arrogance puts…

In 1796, Edward Jenner administered the world’s first vaccine, it was a smallpox vaccination. This would be the first of millions of vaccinations that have been given, which shows how they are helpful because it has prevented deadly diseases from continually spreading. There have also been negative effects discovered to getting vaccinated. Although this is true, vaccines are necessary and we should continue to use them, because the benefits outweigh the possible damages. Measles is a very…

The article I found talked about Vaccines becoming a double standard. A double standard is defined as “a rule or principle that is unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups”. The article discusses how modern medicine can impact even the littlest and youngest children to help them have a happy and healthy life. The article brings up a part of and explains how parents can neglect their children from the medical vaccinations needed to provide a good and healthy life. Some…

Vaccines will affect everyone differently, but will help more than harm. They have been able to treat and cause many illnesses, that are latent in our everyday lives. Medical policy making is consistently coupled with politics, financial profits, the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical industry influence vaccine policies to favor interests. The information being released can be accurate; but can also lead citizens to fear vaccines, causing many to believe the information provided is…

Vaccine Safety A mother with a 5 month old daughter had gotten her daughter 8 vaccines due to a doctor’s request. Two days later, her daughter had a seizure and the doctor said it was probably from a fever, although she never had a fever. He also stated that the seizure shouldn’t happen again. She had another seizure one day later and the doctor said the same thing again. The daughter was free of seizures for a little while. Since the seizures disappeared her mother took her to get more…

wondering what the purpose of vaccines are, it’s paramount to recall what they’re protecting us against and buying into the fearmongering surrounding them. In the United States, we have the luxury of vaccines that are readily available to the public, yet increasingly and with more frequency, people are turning them down. There has been a resurgence in childhood communicable diseases that were close to being snuffed out. As parents decide to delay or opt out of the recommended vaccine schedules…

claiming that vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella caused autism. Many believed the scientist claim and stop their children from receiving the vaccines, causing the rate of measles and mumps to rise. Many have questioned Dr. Wakefield’s results and conducted their own experiments causing a controversy. On the internet today, there are many articles claiming vaccine cause autism, and vaccines don’t cause autism. The CDC has released an article clearing out the confusion, saying vaccines do…

earliest ancient times civilizations that later went to Europe where it spread, causing terrifying smallpox epidemics. Barely a few years after Edward Jenner introduced the antiviral vaccine for the disease, the Spanish Crown, while propagating vaccination in the metropolis, organized the Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition in order that the populations of the then Spanish colonies in America and the Philippines would benefit from the great discovery. In the decision to promote this great…