Jenner found that the boy fell ill to cowpox but after recovering, he was immune to smallpox thus the method of vaccination was born. This discovery was important as it was an improvement on the previous method of inoculation. Inoculation involved deliberately infecting someone with the desired disease but death rates were extremely high as a result of this practise. However Jenner’s discovery of the smallpox vaccination meant that more lives were saved because there were fewer deaths associated with the vaccination technique and it became more popular than inoculation - eventually becoming a widespread method of disease prevention as it is still in use today. The factors of enquiry and science & technology played an important part in the build up to the development of the smallpox vaccination.
This shows that many parents are sceptical to the vaccinations, what might have negative consequences for children. The reason why in 1990s and 2000s many children did not receive their vaccination was the publication of The Lancet study by Andrew Wakefield talking about a link between autism and MMR vaccination. The strong phrase that some people still remember is that vaccinations are dangerous. Despite the fact that science has proven this is wrong some people still believe there is link between autism development and MMR vaccination. Therefore it is strange that they are making informed choice.
There are many controversial issue of whether or not to vaccinate children. Vaccinations are given to help protect the immune system from many of the deadly disease that are out there. They are also used to help eliminate and reduce the spread of other contagious diseases. There are vaccinations against diseases such as diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTaP), polio, measles, mumps, rubella (MMR), Haemophilus inflenzae type b (Hib), Hepatitis A/B, and varicella are just to name a few of them. Every state has its own requirements of what the required immunization are, some states even allow a waiver so that children don’t have to be vaccinated.
Once someone contracts one of these types of disease, it can possibly be fatal. Fortunately, these types of diseases are now avoidable thanks to vaccines. All of these viruses and more now have an enemy, it’s called a vaccine. From the “Feed a cold, starve a fever” type of medicinal cure all, to the current prescription researched vaccines, today’s inoculations are the brick wall that diseases run into. According to The American Academy of Pediatrics "most childhood
Many of these patients were left with uncontrollable jerky movements, which, scientists believed, were caused because of the fetal cells. Although some patients had showed improvement, after a year, those patients also began to develop severe dyskinesia. During these processes people argued that it was unethical to destroy embryos to obtain stem cells to cure someone else. If this research would be allowed to be continued in the future, some questions that might come up include whether or not scientists should be allowed to killed fetuses to obtain the stem cells they need for the
There are near-record low levels of vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States, but sadly that does not mean these diseases have disappeared. Many of the viruses and bacteria that cause illness still circulate in this country or are only a plane ride away. It’s very important that children, especially infants and young children, receive recommended immunizations on time. Vaccines also protect teenagers and adults to keep them healthy for their entire lives. I have always had very strong opinions regarding vaccinations; especially now as a parent and a student in the medical assistant program.
Should Parent's Allow Their Children To Be Vaccinated Preservatives have been used in vaccines for more than 70 years and are added to vaccines to prevent the growth of bacteria that could make the vaccine unsafe to use. The main preservative used is called Thimerosal. Thimerosal does have neurotic effects on infants and toddlers and is connected with them having autism. Thimerosal contains 49.6% of mercury. Mercury is the principle agent that kills contaminants.
It is also believed that vaccines are causing autism. Though I concede that getting vaccinated can be somewhat dangerous, I still maintain the idea that they should not be the sole reason to blame for the fact that children are being diagnosed with autism. There has been no concrete evidence that there is a direct correlation between being immunized and this neurological disorder. Generally administered to toddlers 12-15 months old, the extremely common vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella, (MMR) supposedly causes a gastrointestinal syndrome in children that are more susceptible. Such syndrome allows unspecified toxins to be released into the bloodstream, thus triggering autism.
In addition to childhood vaccines, there's also debate about adult vaccines, particularly for the seasonal flu. According to some parents children’s immune systems can deal with most infections naturally and that vaccines cause immune system suppression, and can permanently damage the natural immune system. But the risks of not being vaccinated far outweigh the small risks
Having human trials for the vaccine would take too long for any defects (An example would be Thalidomide, which caused birth defects in the 1960s because of incomplete animal testing by today’s standards. US regulations have expanded on what conditions a drug must be tested under due to the incident [Gauvra, 2011]) to show and not having trials is not an option when it comes to the flu. Should the vaccine be unavailable, a significant portion of the population would fall ill every year, and the number of deaths from just the flu would skyrocket. As well, there would be a sharp decline in the quality of life for humans. Many companies use animal trials to test out the safety of new drugs, pesticides, medication, food additives, packing materials, and anything else with chemical ingredients.