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    have helped millions of people survive and have brought a new and advanced age and product to science in the modern world.                 Vaccines solely help the body’s immune system prepare in advance to fight off infectious illnesses and diseases caused by infectious agents or other facts that have to do with heredity‚ environment etc… What the vaccine essentially does is give the body’s immune system a very small dosage of the virus or illness‚ allowing it to “learn” and be able to fight off

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    Vaccines are responsible for minimizing the risk of many deadly diseases and even eradicating some completely. People today are privileged enough to live during a time where the fear of dying from a disease like measles or smallpox is negligible. Even so vaccines are not without dissenters. There is a segment of humanity that believes there is a credible association between vaccines and rising autism rates. The following articles will show that there are varying ideas on the best way to disprove

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    diseases will not be eradicated in 20 years by vaccines and antibiotics. There are too many diseases to get eradicate. There are also diseases that are very hard to kill or eradicate like different cancers. The diseases can also mutate and evolve to be immune to some vaccines or antibiotics. I think that is I think it is impossible to eradicate all diseases in twenty years because there are just too many diseases and it would take time to make the vaccines and to eradicate the diseases. There are over

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    Helpful Cowpox- Virus Size-275nm Edward Jenner found the application for the cowpox virus as a vaccine over 200 years ago(2). The innovation of the cowpox vaccine led to the eradication of the smallpox virus and is the biggest contribution to biomedical science and human health(1). Lactobacillus- Bacteria Size- 0.9 um Lactobacillus bacteria can help prevent intestinal

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    invent successful vaccination (in this case for smallpox.) At the time‚ smallpox was a greatly feared disease. One in three of those who caught it died and any survivors were often badly disfigured. He investigated the rural old-wives tale that milkmaids couldn’t get smallpox believing there to be a connection. After examining a woman with cowpox‚ he noticed she had blisters on her hands and concluded it was the pus in them that prevented smallpox. James Phipps‚ a young boy‚ volunteered to be Jenner’s

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    Over the centuries vaccines have been extremely important to help stop diseases. Parents should not have the right to prevent their child from getting vaccinated. Vaccinations save lives and if only if a child has a specific disease that will react with the vaccination should parents be able to prevent it. When a child gets a vaccination‚ then the child is basically prevented from getting the disease. In 1796 the English doctor Edward Jenner developed the world’s first vaccination. Although Jenner

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    but every bit as horrifying as anthrax is smallpox. Smallpox is an acute‚ highly contagious virus disease characterized by prolonged fever‚ vomiting‚ and pustule eruptions that often leave pitted scars‚ or pockmarks‚ when healed as defined by Webster’s New World College Dictionary. Smallpox‚ commands respect and the concern of the American public along with that terrorism‚ of the biological variety‚ however improbable‚ is very possible.    At onetime smallpox was once large academic before vaccinations

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    infect the people of Mantua with swamp fever during his Italian campaign (“biological warfare”). During the French and Indian War in the 18th century AD‚ British forces under the direction of Sir Jeffrey Amherst gave blankets that had been used by smallpox victims to the Native Americans in a plan to spread the disease (“History of Biological Warfare”). A more recent example of biological weapons was in 1995. A Japanese terrorist group‚ called Aum Shinrikyo‚

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    as the invention of smallpox over two centuries ago‚ there has been a lot of discussion over the quality‚ morals‚ and adequacy about giving vaccinations to children. Even though the government should not be able to choose whether or not a child gets vaccinated‚ child vaccines should be mandatory because it helps build the immune system at an early age and it protects the child from getting a more powerful version of a disease. There are many reasons behind why child vaccines should be mandatory.

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    can become permanently deaf. Although a very small number of deaths from the MMR (measles‚ mumps‚ and rubella) vaccine have been reported‚ the most common adverse reactions are minor soreness and or fever. Vaccines can eradicate disease and prevent serious illness and death. Mandatory vaccination has eliminated disease that once killed thousands of children‚ such as polio and smallpox. According to the researchers at the Pediatric Academic Society‚ childhood vaccinations in the United States

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