The article by Kate Thayer, is an obvious push to persuade the idea of child vaccinations and the role that parents and doctors play in them. It follows the story of a family, who was against the idea of getting vaccinated until they developed the rotavirus and their school system started kicking out unvaccinated children. The mother states that doctors were not doing their role to inform parents and reduce their fears on vaccinations. Many health facilities have even started turning away patients who refuse to vaccinate, which is a divided issue. On one side, people say that turning away patients is okay because they are protecting their other patients. However, doctors have a better chance of convincing parents to vaccinate if they keep the…
There are many reasons why it is important for a person to be properly vaccinated. One reason for why it is important is so they avoid a contracting communicable disease. Another reason is so diseases will not be spread. A final reason is to avoid the death that some diseases can result in.…
Dr. Wakefield’s whistleblowing study was heavily discredited and all arguments to have come since the study are similarly flawed and unfounded. The MMR Vaccine is a beneficial form of treatment and any links to autism are unfounded and harmful. Dr. Wakefield was not unreasonably stripped of his medical license. Unfortunately, it took ten years for his study to be fully retracted. Thought was put behind the dismantling of this horrendously harmful rumor, even if none was put behind its formation. When someone asks how vaccines cause autism, there’s only one real answer. They…
many parents today are delaying or refusing vaccines for their children. These parents have different controversies, such as negative side effects, learning disabilities, religious reasons, and forcing parents to vaccinate as well as other opinions. I believe it is important for children to receive vaccines. There are three main reasons why children should get vaccinated. The number one reason is that research shows that vaccinations are generally safe…
With all the publicity of parents who had their healthy child vaccinated and then diagnosed with autism, linking the two together seemed to be obvious. With so many frightened parents that either read articles or heard by word of mouth some parents became reluctant to vaccinate their children. The American Academy of Pediatrics officially recommended that the country move to thimersol-free children’s vaccines.…
Should childhood vaccination be mandatory? Vaccination protects your child from preventable diseases and will keep your child healthy. In this day and time, there are many diseases that are preventable with a safe and effective vaccine that has been FDA approved. In any vaccination there are some risks you are taking because some children have reactions to the vaccine. Many parents do not realize the effects of not vaccinating their child. This can cause serious risks and even put the child’s life in jeopardy. When a person chooses not to vaccinate a child, this can cause effects on their immune system and even long term issues.…
Thanks to technology and research, vaccines have kept serious diseases from becoming epidemic illnesses, unlike many years ago. When children are vaccinated, the chances of contracting the disease being vaccinated for are decreased drastically. Every child should be immunized to protect themselves and the people around them from these deadly diseases. The best way to prevent preventable diseases is to have an immune population. We can achieve this by simply vaccinating our children.…
Those same individuals also believe the rate of Autism cases has risen since the vaccination of children has become more of a common thing to do in todays’ society. What these people fail to realize is even though the number of vaccinations from late 1990 to 2012 has increased, the amount of antigens in the vaccines has decreased in a great amount. Frank Destefano who is the director of the Immunization Safety Office of the CDC explained in an article “that the dramatic reduction occurred because vaccines have become more precise in the way they stimulate the immune system”.…
“If my kid can’t bring peanut butter to school, yours shouldn’t be able to bring preventable diseases.” A statement by a parent to other parents who chose not to vaccinate their child. Although this statement may be a bit extreme it breathes life into a very important topic about vaccinating children. Parents should be for vaccinating their child because they prevent deadly communicable disease and can save their child’s life; and the life of others. The consequences of disease are far more hazardous than the risks of vaccination.…
It is believed that the source of the outbreak was likely brought over by travelers from overseas. This would not be a problem if all of the children were vaccinated; but, because they were not, a small epidemic of measles was the result. Measles had been declared eliminated in the country in the year 2000 which leads a poll of ninety-two percent of physicians to believe that this outbreak is directly attributed to parent not vaccinating their kids. this affects not only the unvaccinated children of Anti-Vaxxers but those that are unable to be vaccinated. Young babies and the elderly with immune disorders are also at risk. Anti-Vaxxers need to realize they are risking the lives of more than just their children in making their decision to not have them vaccinated.…
I would like to research vaccinations, and whether children should or should not be vaccinated. Vaccinations are one of the ten greatest public health achievements of the first decade of the twenty first century. According the the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, routine childhood vaccinations have prevented three hundred and twenty two million cases of disease and about seven hundred thirty two thousand early deaths among children.…
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Dr. Andrew Wakefield conducted an experiment in regards to vaccinations. His experiment had caused him his license and he was convicted for the misleading of people to believe that vaccinations were harmful and caused autism. “The fact that so many individuals were at risk for the disease because of their lack of vaccination is a significant threat to public health in the United States. This trend originated from parents fearing that the vaccine could cause autism. In 1998, British researcher Andrew Wakefield suggested in a published report that the MMR vaccine triggered autism. This study was determined to be fraudulent in 2011, and the article was retracted by the journal. However, its influence remains strong despite widespread press coverage and discussion. Many parents of autistic children still believe that autism is directly linked to vaccines and their preservatives, including the mercury-based thimerosal that was the original topic of the study by Wakefield. Thimerosal was removed from vaccines following the study in 1998 to try to reassure parents that the vaccines were safe. Despite this removal and the debunking of the study by Wakefield, many parents continue to fear that vaccination could cause autism in their children. (Pierce)”. “The article discusses an outbreak of measles in southwest Wales that some connect to claims made by Dr. Andrew Wakefield in the late 1990s about an alleged link between autism and immunization for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). At the time, many parents reacted by refusing to get their children immunized. Between November 2012 and early July 2013, 1219 new cases of measles were reported in southwest Wales. (WHALEN)”. The medical board felt that the experiment made by Dr. Wakefield was not relevant and that he had to be removed for making people believe something that was not true. “The UK researcher who…
The gasping breath and distinctive sounds of whooping cough; the iron lungs and braces designed for children paralyzed by polio; and the devastating birth defects caused by rubella: To most Americans, these infectious scourges simultaneously inspire dread and represent obscure maladies of years past. Yet a little more than a century ago, the U.S. infant mortality rate was a staggering 20 percent, and the childhood mortality rate before age five was another disconcerting 20 percent.1 Not surprisingly, in an epoch before the existence of preventive methods and effective therapies, infectious diseases such as measles, diphtheria, smallpox, and pertussis topped the list of childhood killers. Fortunately, many of these devastating diseases have been contained, especially in industrialized nations, because of the development and widespread distribution of safe, effective, and affordable vaccines.…
: Infants have been shown to experience a period of susceptibility to pertussis infection prior to receiving primary vaccinations. Maternal vaccination during pregnancy is recommended by doctors to protect infants (via passive immunity) during this susceptibility period. Researchers in this study aimed to provide more substantiation that maternal vaccination is effective at improving infant defense against pertussis. Contrastingly, researchers also aimed to evaluate whether or not maternal vaccination interfered with an infant’s ability to develop his or her own immune response. 99 pregnant women were recruited and assigned to either a vaccine or control group. Vaccine groups received a Tdap (tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis) vaccine…