concerning their children’s preventable disease vaccines. Due to the growth of the AVM (anti-vaccine movement)‚ the question arises as to rather parents are making the right decisions or not. The research process involved multiple online sources and an interview with a local community health nurse (RN). I found the CDC (Center for Disease Control) and NIH (National Institute of Health) sites addressed the questions and misbeliefs of the AVM (anti-vaccine movement)‚ and clarified standing misconceptions
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Attention Step In present day‚ the majority of doctors have not seen a single case of the measles‚ but before a vaccine was available‚ almost every person in America contracted it. Like all of you‚ I am part of the lucky people who have been vaccinated‚ however‚ there are many people around the world who are not as fortunate and others who are simply beginning to deny vaccinations. After researching vaccinations‚ I have become very aware of how much they actually benefit our society. According
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said no vaccine increases the health of a population‚ because vaccines do not increase the health of a human. There is nothing in a vaccine that our bodies actually require… There is no nutritive effect of a vaccine. So no‚ she doesn’t believe that they create health in a population. She believes there are always better ways to deal with diseases in a population than vaccinating anybody. See‚ the pro-vaccine people will say that we have these studies‚ we’ve done them‚ but it’s only one vaccine. And
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every day more than 22‚000 children died and 2/3 of deaths‚ 5.4million‚ were due to infectious diseases (UNICEF 2010). Mass vaccination campaigns are accepted as a number one solution to the child mortality from the preventable infectious diseases. Vaccines are one of the greatest public health attainments which from people benefited throughout the last two centuries (Stern‚ Markel 2005). They are the safe guardians of both children and adults. The main goal of vaccinationsis to stimulate the immune
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Inoculation Nation 1796 was a year of illness; pox-plagued people lay on their deathbed‚ gasping for their last breath. Bodies littered the streets‚ and the dead did not always receive a proper burial. With that magnitude of mortality‚ many were searching for an answer. Immunity would be the solution. However‚ the first inkling of a thought that immunity was acquired from exposure to disease originated with Thucydides in Athens‚ circa 430 B.C. He stated‚ “the sick and the dying were tended by the
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Herd Immunity Vaccinations are a way to combat illness that have caused great harm in the past. Many different types and methods have been tested and used for almost a thousand years‚ from flu shots to Polio vaccines‚ it has protected people from contracting these viruses. Hundreds of thousands would be dead if it were not for this preventative care. However‚ many people choose to opt out of receiving this medical treatment by choosing to abide by other personal beliefs. All people should receive
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Justen Grenell Professor Melessa Henderson Rhetoric and Research 22 October 2012 Vaccines Vaccinations are becoming more prominent in the world of medicine today. The topic has become debatable as well as controversial. While vaccine campaigns are on the rise‚ we are entering a new millennium with growing concern from large numbers of parents and professionals in the medical field. When compared with the relative statistics of disease in our country‚ we then think about the safety of vaccinations
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However‚ there are two different solutions that could stop Lyme Disease from spreading even more: vaccines and population control. Deer ticks get Lyme from the mice they prey on as larvae. If the mice were given vaccines‚ that would stop the ticks from spreading Lyme. On the other hand‚ if the mice populations were lowered‚ the number of Lyme Disease cases might get reduced too. I would give the vaccine to mice because that’s where the ticks get Lyme‚ according to BrainPOP. If the ticks don’t get B
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or not thimerosal is the contributor or the blame for the onset of autism. Vaccines were invented to protect children from deadly diseases like polio‚ measles‚ mumps‚ rubella‚ influenza‚ varicella‚ diphtheria‚ tetanus‚ pertussis‚ and hepatitis A & B. Prior to 1999‚ most vaccinations contained a preservative called thimersoal to prevent bacterial contamination in multi-dose vials of several childhood and adult vaccines (McCormick‚ 2005). The active ingredient in thimerosal is ethyl mercury‚ a close
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to Vaccinate The topic I chose for discussion is whether I would chose to follow the CDC’s (Center for Disease Control) recommendations for having my child vaccinated against certain vaccine-preventable diseases. Although no federal laws exist for mandatory vaccinations‚ each state has a group of required vaccines for children‚ prior to the enrollment in public and some private schools. So basically‚ if you’d like your child to go to school‚ they must be vaccinated. Forty eight of our fifty
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