Persuasive Essay On Vaccinate Children

suspicion of doctors or the potential risks, they are making an uneducated decision. Not only could their children contact the disease, but also the other children exempt from vaccinations.
This was the circumstance for a parent in the U.K, when many parents refused the MMR vaccine. Angela Leahy’s son was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and receiving treatment. Unlike the United States, most countries in Europe allow parents the option to vaccinate their children. Since many parents refuse vaccines in Europe, the herd immunity in some areas have decreased to about 50%. Leahy was furious to discover both her children would be homeschooled because the vaccine rates were too low to protect her children in a public school. Although a child today has a good chance of surviving measles, children with illnesses like leukemia have a 50% chance of surviving. Both of her children’s education and social life are affected because public schools in Britain aren’t considered immune to measles.
Measles and polio have traveled into the United States, diseases that were once declared eradicated in 2000. The outbreaks commonly begin with a U.S citizen traveling outside the country and bringing back the disease. Many people may argue with the medical advancements a diseased person can be contained and cured. Which is true, it isn’t common for a person to die from measles. It is however expensive to treat and contain. Which does affect everyone because it’s paid by the taxpayers. When less than fifty people contract an eradicated disease the costs total the price of a house. This was the scenario for the measles outbreak in 2005, in the state of Indiana after a 17 year old returned from a church mission. While on the church mission she