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Childhood Vaccination Essay

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Parents would like nothing but to see their child grow up healthy. In 1979, smallpox, a disease that killed 300 million people in the 20th century alone, was, declared eradicated from the planet. Through a worldwide vaccination effort, one of the deadliest diseases to ravage mankind was eliminated from the face of the earth. In addition, the infection rates of other diseases, such as polio and measles, has dropped significantly in many first world countries due to vaccination campaigns. However, in 1988, a paper published by The Lancet, a medical journal based in the United Kingdom, claimed that the MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine caused developmental problems in children. While it did not claim much attention in its early years, by the early 2000s, it appeared to include all vaccines and quickly grabbed the attention of the public. As a result, vaccination rates have dropped significantly over the past decade, especially for children. Because of this drop, the prevalence of many childhood diseases are nearing pre-vaccine levels. While the decline in vaccination rates is currently not a major issue, it could quickly grow if it is left …show more content…

When a person falls ill with a disease such as the flu, he/she may be forced to stay at home until he/she recover. Absences can cost a business money, as the business have lost their regular employee for a considerably long period of time. However, this could all be avoided by receiving routine vaccinations. Vaccinating would not only protect individual employees, but if workers received vaccinations, their coworkers would be protected as well, reducing the chance of an office-wide “sick day.” If workers received their recommended vaccines, their coworkers, as well as themselves would get sick less often, and therefore miss work less often. Vaccinated employees would allow businesses to continue operating normally without any major

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