Health Department to address health issues that arises. The opposition to the bill uses the argument that vaccines have detrimental side effects and that “people should have the right to make their own health decisions” (Riker). Local resident Renee Kawelo opposed the bill and vaccines because she believes that they will make her children sick. The most notable side effect that people think vaccines causes is autism‚ “which scientific research has debunked” (Riker)‚
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will be seeing the pros and cons to vaccines. There are many opinions about vaccines and there are many things that are said that are false accusations related to vaccines which lead to many misinformed and confused. I will be providing you with facts of both the pros and cons to help your understand the complicated topic of vaccines and to help your decide to be either pro or against vaccinations. First of all‚ I am going to be telling you about the pros of vaccines. If you do not get vaccinated you
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Vaccines are an astonishing product that can provide immunity and/or prevention of certain diseases. The first successful vaccination was developed by Edward Jenner‚an English Doctor and the father of immunology‚ in the late 1790s(1). Within the next two centuries‚ several other successful vaccinations were introduced into the medial field(1). Some vaccines are given to children at birth while others need to be given at other certain ages across a child’s lifespan(1). Some states do allow exemptions
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Vaccines were created to stop the rapid spread of disease and they have achieved just that. Although vaccinations have been around for numerous years the threat of disease prevails. With technology improving there is an increase of people fluctuating in and out of our country. With the amount of international travel in todays society‚ diseases that are not indigenous to our nation are brought in undetected. Due to the increase of transition the liability of a pandemics and fatalities are higher than
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Scared to Death During the latter part of the year in Massachusetts‚ 1918‚ all hell broke loose. Jane Brox‚ the author of the devastating essay “Influenza 1918‚” describes the influenza that happened in her hometown before she was born as she states “the flu cut right through‚ spreading ahead of its own rumors‚ passing on a handshake and on the wind and with the lightest kiss.” (Brox 80). The flu was airborne and unstoppable. Deadly‚ the small hospitals began to fill up with patients sickened and
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There were four different ads for the flu vaccine‚ they all used common advertising techniques. I felt that the two ads that used association didn’t do a good job of persuading me towards getting the flu vaccine. The other two ads did a good job of promoting the flu vaccine. I didn’t like the two ads that used association. The one ad used the slogan "Share Music‚ Not the Flu" The target audience was young adults. I felt this was patronizing‚ because instead of telling it in a factual straightforward
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Yes‚ I do believe mandatory vaccine programs should be instituted as a public health initiative. Those who are not immunized put other people at risk to these dangerous diseases. Vaccines are meant to help prevent and stop the spread of these viruses to others. It is not fair to those who are medically sensitive and have a suppressed immune system be exposed to these unvaccinated individuals because of their personal beliefs. Many parents do not want to vaccinate their children because they think
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Microeconomics Article Analysis: Application of Supply and Demand Concepts to Current H1N1 Vaccine Shortages R.Mate According to a recent article‚ the United States faces problems of H1N1 vaccine shortages as the swine flue epidemic spirals out of control. Even though the supply is increasing steadily‚ so is the demand for it. “The first estimates called for 40 million doses by the end of October and 190 million doses by year ’s end” (ACJ). Although production has been delayed several times
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Do Vaccines really cause Autism? The myth that vaccines causes autism began in 1998 when a study wrongly linked autism with vaccines‚ the author of this claim lost his medical license‚ but the idea was still strong. In fact vaccines don’t cause autism‚ but in reality they help to develop immunities to many viruses‚ and to stop the spread of them too. How this myth did is still so popular? The answer is easy and it’s that many parents are scared that their children may get autism‚ so they prefer
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do not have the right to make other people fall victim to death due to the choices they make on these skeptics. The idea of vaccines started many years ago and since then have all but eradicated many diseases like small pox and polio‚ but some people believe in not vaccinating which allows these children to get the disease and spread it further to other people. With vaccines we can eliminate diseases‚ they’re safe and effective‚ and even save money. In the early to mid-1900s polio was a disease that
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