Topic: Vaccinations should be Mandatory Opening/Attention: “Nearly everyone in the U.S. got measles before there was a vaccine‚ and hundreds died from it each year. Today‚ most doctors have never seen a case of measles. More than 15‚000 Americans died from diphtheria in 1921‚ before there was a vaccine. Only one case of diphtheria has been reported to CDC since 2004. An epidemic of rubella (German measles) in 1964-65 infected 12½ million Americans‚ killed 2‚000 babies‚ and caused 11‚000 miscarriages
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booths and they have made visits to people’s houses to vaccinate for the disease. By knowing the benefits of vaccination‚ they tried their hardest to vaccinate all the children that they could. After trying to control the disease by vaccination‚ India has successfully put an end to it. Now India‚ officially eradicated‚ the disease Polio by the simple use of vaccines. The article Vaccination greatly reduces disease‚ disability‚ death and inequity worldwide‚ states that “...an eradicated pathogen cannot
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abhorrent epidemics like polio‚ mumps‚ measles and smallpox the older generations did. While it is safe to assume vaccines are here to stay‚ critics have presented damning yet unverified accounts of the ineffectiveness and harmful side effects of vaccinations urging parents to second guess their choice to immunise their child. The act of immunisation itself is the process of equipping
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Vaccinations for the Generations Every day‚ people come in contact with diseases. Opening a door‚ shaking hands‚ kissing‚ purchasing and consuming food‚ all require touch and involve the exchange of bacteria. Prior to inoculating people with a weakened version of diseases‚ the mortality rate was much higher‚ especially among infants. Vaccines are administered to protect the masses from diseases and outbreaks that can spread through these exchanges‚ such as bubonic plague. Despite staggering evidence
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whooping cough vaccination. This should lead to more buy-in from the parents and in turn increase the vaccination rates for students. This begins with a very basic explanation of what epidemiology is. A simple overview of epidemiology and its basic concepts is the first step to health education. First‚ what is epidemiology
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with the help of Dr. Shakil Afridi.The CIA’s fake vaccination campaign drive has damaged the battle against polio. The intention of the campaign was to confirm Osama bin Laden’s presence in this city by obtaining DNA samples from children his. In a letter written to CIA director Leon Panetta‚ the InterAction Alliance‚ a union of about 200 U.S.-based non-government organizations‚ deplored and supported the actions of the CIA in using a vaccination campaign as a cover. Reluctantly‚ Pakistan reported
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Vaccinations: Are they important? Forty percent of parents in the United States delay or don’t vaccinate their children (Culp-Ressler). Many parents believe vaccinations have serious side effects‚ but the CDC has not found links between vaccinations and the side effects parents are worrying about. Since some parents believe vaccinations can cause serious side effects‚ they have not been vaccinating their children and are using philosophical exemptions keep their children from having to get those
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centrally planned economy. Smallpox‚ an extremely infectious human - borne disease‚ had infected 50 million people worldwide by 1959‚ however‚ in Czechoslovakia‚ the disease had been eradicated in 1924. Topic #1: Implementing intensified smallpox vaccination programs The smallpox vaccine was invented in 1798 by Edward Jenner‚ and it offers protection from the disease for 3 - 5 years from the
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reasoning is an exception for vaccinations without question. A student‚ who may or may not even have the correct religious reasoning‚ can go to public school without vaccinations and infect a student who has probable medical cause to be exempted. At Meadow Glenn Elementary in Lexington‚ South Carolina‚ "two students have medicinal reasoning for exemptions‚ while 22 students have religious reasoning..." (Branning). Those 22 religious exemptions are putting the two medical exemptions in potentially serious
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McCarthy‚ famous for her time as a comedian and model‚ whose advocacy of the anti-vaccination movement has “Solidified her position in the community of parents of autistic children‚ and further publicized her assertion that vaccines are one of the principal causes of autism‚” (145). Although she is not medically qualified to speak on the topic‚ she is trusted and influential enough to spread the fear of vaccinations to parents all over America. Furthermore McCarthy‚ just as countless other authoritative
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