Childhood Vaccination Case Study

2. Herd immunity is the idea that if enough people are vaccinated, those that cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons and young babies will be protected. Herd immunity works through the statistical chance that you will come into contact with someone with an infectious disease. The more people that have been vaccinated, the statistical chances of running into someone with a dangerous disease are drastically decreased (NOVA). The Center for Disease Control recommends childhood vaccinations because they have “prevented countless cases of disease and saved millions of lives.” Vaccines safely expose children to harmful diseases; these vaccines are made up of the same antigens as the infectious disease, but these antigens have already been severely weakened or even killed. These antigens, however, are strong enough to cause the body to
The World Health Organization ensures the safety, quality and immunogenicity of vaccines. They do this to make sure that the antigens in any vaccine will safely provoke the body’s immune system to produce antibodies without causing any disease to form. Concerned peoples should view The World Health Organization’s “School Vaccination Readiness Assessment Tool and their vaccine research and development documents on individual disease vaccinations (World Health Organization). Vaccinations are beneficial because they prevent unnecessary illness and even death from harmful diseases. Neither the World Health Organization nor the Center for Disease has found any verifiable detriments to vaccination. I used these three specific sources because they are reputable sources that fully provided the information necessary to answer the questions. Two of the three sources used were referenced in the questions and the third was shown to the class by the