Child Vaccinations Throughout the years there has been an increase in the debate on child vaccinations. People have been debating on whether vaccinations for children at young ages is generally safe. There are numerous organizations throughout the United States that deal with child vaccinations. Some people comprehend that child vaccinations damage a child’s body more than they help it, others think different. Vaccinations in children help prevent viruses and bacteria more than causing them.
Why Parents Should Not Vaccinate their Children? Vaccination has saved millions of lives all over the globe. The medical world in general, along with government in most countries, supports vaccination as the best way of preventing communicable diseases. But in recent years the issue has surfaced regarding childhood vaccinations as being to blame for the autism epidemic. In my opinion, parents should not vaccinate their children if they want to protect them from developing autism.
The first vaccinations started in the 18th century by Edward Jenner, he had heard that people that had cowpox, which was not to serious for humans, were immune to smallpox. So Jenner took pus from cowpox sore and inoculated a boy, six weeks later he took smallpox pus and inoculated the boy again, and the boy did not get smallpox (4). Later Louis Pasteur using this same technique developed a rabies vaccine, and by the nineteenth century vaccines were considered a matter of national prestige, and compulsory laws were passed. Even though some people think vaccinations are not safe, this is nothing new. Opposition to vaccines has existed since the earliest vaccination campaigns.
But if we stop taking vaccination for such diseases, it may come back. Vaccination is just not to protect ourselves and our children. It is to protect the entire future generation. Unless the disease is 100% eliminated from the entire world, it’s important to keep taking vaccines. If more parents have their children vaccinated, then more children in the community will be protected against catching an illness.
In this debate, there are two main camps: those who say co-sleeping increases the risk of SIDS, and those who say it promotes breast feeding, which decreases the risk of SIDS. Both sides have numerous studies and papers out, supporting their stance on the issue. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Consumer Product Safety Commission both say never to sleep with your infant, while UNICEF refuses to support blanket recommendations against bed sharing (Spangler, 2001; Mace, 2006). Some of the questions asked include; does co-sleeping increase the risk for SIDS; does co-sleeping encourage breastfeeding; does breastfeeding decrease the risk of SIDS; and who is actually sleeping with their infants. In this paper I am going to analyze some studies on co-sleeping, breastfeeding and SIDS.
Jesse was the youngest chosen to participate in this clinical trial by a group of University of Pennsylvania researchers. The trial was being pursued with the hopes of developing a treatment for infants born with the same disease as Jesse. On September 13, 1999, Jesse received the highest dose of the adenoviral vector containing a corrected gene to test the procedure. Four days later after receiving the vector, Jesse’s body suffered a major immune response leading to multiple system failure and brain death. A federal investigation into his death was led by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to determine what went wrong.
Deep Patel Prof. Peters WRT.0311.04 April 25, 2015 Should Vaccination be made compulsory for all children? Vaccinations are one of the most important tools of primary prevention. Since the invention of vaccines for the primary diseases that were making most of the newly born child either handicap or leading them to death. Vaccination and its mandating are the warm topics for an argument among the designated people of every nation. No country can decide a policy that could extended a positive hand towards compulsory vaccination.
Laihandais Studmire Dr. Hitchcock English 101 23 February 2010 Final Draft: Narration My First Experience with Sickness and Death As a child I never had to deal with sickness and death. Never had I been through anything sad or heartbreaking. Up until my twenties I was blessed to still have both parents and all four of my grandparents. This all changed when my grandfather got sick and passed away. From my grandfather’s passing, I learned how to deal with the death of a loved one.
Another issue is that the parent might not be well informed or misinformed by only seeing the part of vaccination media has to show. Which in most cases are the side effects of the vaccine. One last issue that arises is of not being around the major diseases that have killed many people, but now have been eradicated by vaccination. Since it has not affected them then vaccination might not be necessary. Those might be the thought of parents who have not lived the pre vaccination era.
In my interview, Wanda stated that where she worked they had a policy concerning the measles vaccination for children. If they received the shot one day before their fourth birthday they would have to get the shot again. I couldn’t find any articles on a topic similar to this, but I did come across many articles about parents not wanting to vaccinate their children because they believe the vaccines are the cause for specific health issues, specifically autism. I have seen this on the new several times also. There have been many studies on this subject, but no definitive answers yet.