Flu vaccines as well with many other vaccinations are the added healthy safety …show more content…
The option to choose whether or not to vaccinate is a luxury here in the United States. In an article by Hilary Hewes she states “10 cases of measles makes the news, while hundreds of children die from measles and its complications weekly around the world” What Hewes is saying is that the measles are a common illness outside of the United States whereas, in the USA it is not as common. In America vaccinations are readily available to the citizens and yet they are being taken for granted. Getting young children and infants vaccinated will be the way to keep them safe as well as keeping those around them safe. In her article she gives real life scenarios of watching young children suffer from pertussis and bacterial meningitis while their parents just sit by and watch because that is all they can do. “These cases haunt me because, with vaccinations, none of these families would have had to suffer”(Hewes). The consequences of not choosing to vaccinate a child will be great when they contract a lethal illness and can not recover from it. It may seem like the right thing to not vaccinate a child shortly after a child is born, but when the child contracts a case of the measles or other deadly disease, the child has no defense to keep them safe and may struggle for a long time fighting for their