Influenza Vaccine for Elderly and Young Children
Taylor Butler
Young Children and the Elderly: High Importance in Receiving Influenza Vaccine
The flu, or influenza, is a virus that hits the United States every year in the late fall and winter, and we can’t seem to break away from it. I will be discussing the controversy of parents not knowing what types of vaccine to give their children, what age to do it at, if they should even get the shot, and the side effects that go along with it. All my life I got the flu vaccine because my parents believed in it greatly. In the past couple years I have been questioning the vaccine because when I would get it, I would feel sick. Hearing things on the media and hearing around, false allegations are made about the flu virus each year. Research has led me to the decision of always receiving the flu vaccine; the risks are much higher without it.
Everyone knows over the past 15 years, technology and media have been increasing rapidly. The negative impact that brings is falsely stated “facts” are put out there on the news and people get the wrong perception of what the flu vaccine really does for people, and that the flu virus is very deadly. “Concerns about side effects constitutes a major deterrent to patient compliance with influenza vaccination” contended the Journal of the American Medical Association (Frequency of Adverse Reactions to Influenza Vaccine in the Elderly, 2014). The flu itself is not that serious, in most cases the flu passes without even knowing this. Each year there is a new flu strain, the NSAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), develop new vaccines for seasonal flu viruses. Also, animal strains are taken for the fact that they can become a pandemic. How the flu vaccine is started is with chicken eggs, they are injected into the egg, left to grow before being harvested as a flu vaccine. The flu virus symptoms consist of fever, hot/cold sweats, vomiting, loss of appetite, and much more. The few normal symptoms of the flu are
Young Children and the Elderly: High Importance in Receiving Influenza Vaccine
The flu, or influenza, is a virus that hits the United States every year in the late fall and winter, and we can’t seem to break away from it. I will be discussing the controversy of parents not knowing what types of vaccine to give their children, what age to do it at, if they should even get the shot, and the side effects that go along with it. All my life I got the flu vaccine because my parents believed in it greatly. In the past couple years I have been questioning the vaccine because when I would get it, I would feel sick. Hearing things on the media and hearing around, false allegations are made about the flu virus each year. Research has led me to the decision of always receiving the flu vaccine; the risks are much higher without it.
Everyone knows over the past 15 years, technology and media have been increasing rapidly. The negative impact that brings is falsely stated “facts” are put out there on the news and people get the wrong perception of what the flu vaccine really does for people, and that the flu virus is very deadly. “Concerns about side effects constitutes a major deterrent to patient compliance with influenza vaccination” contended the Journal of the American Medical Association (Frequency of Adverse Reactions to Influenza Vaccine in the Elderly, 2014). The flu itself is not that serious, in most cases the flu passes without even knowing this. Each year there is a new flu strain, the NSAID (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), develop new vaccines for seasonal flu viruses. Also, animal strains are taken for the fact that they can become a pandemic. How the flu vaccine is started is with chicken eggs, they are injected into the egg, left to grow before being harvested as a flu vaccine. The flu virus symptoms consist of fever, hot/cold sweats, vomiting, loss of appetite, and much more. The few normal symptoms of the flu are