Should Vaccines Be Mandatory

To the average individual, the word ‘vaccination’ means to prevent illness. Vaccinations have many advantages; they allow us to be less susceptible to a variety of illnesses and diseases. Many individuals believe that vaccinations should not be mandatory. However, the benefits from vaccinations greatly outweigh the risks from side effects. The judgments are factual and ethical and are supported by testing and research findings from multiple sources.

There have been more than 1000 of journal articles pointing out the dangerous immunological responses and other infections from the vaccine. Poor immunological response prevents the ability of a person to prevent the diseases that the vaccine is supposed to fight against.

It's also said that the mumps vaccine has a more dangerous effect on people when it wears off. You also have a higher chance of getting measles if you have the vaccine in your system. It was also found that the yellow fever vaccine had leukemia in it. All these Big pharmaceutical companies say it's ok if only 20% of kids become ill. This is what they say instead of trying to make the number closer to zero.

Over many years there have been parents that are very resistant to giving their children vaccines for the most complex to simplest diseases. Getting your children vaccinated could potentially save your child’s life and wipe out the disease for good. All children should be vaccinated when they are old enough to get the medication because if they do not get vaccinated it could put their health and others’ at risk. The disease-prevention benefits of getting vaccines are much greater than the possible side effects for almost all children.

Some People have expressed concern about vaccine safety. The fact is that vaccines save lives by limiting the spread of diseases. If you choose not to immunize, you are not only putting your kid at risk who has a high chance of getting it cause you don’t have the protection that the vaccine provides you are putting others at risk also. Getting vaccinated is a smart choice because it blocks out a lot of the diseases that try to enter your body so therefore you stay safer than if you didn’t have it. Most of the deadliest diseases that have affected children have been greatly reduced thanks to the help of the vaccines. Today we vaccinate 16 different diseases so that kids don’t have lifetime effects from getting all of these diseases. Through

Vaccines have saved many children from sickness, death and have terminated a large part of infectious diseases in the world. That being said, whether to immunize or not is the ongoing question parents face each day. On one hand, questions are raised about the safety of some vaccines because of rare but serious adverse effects that have been attributed to them. On the other hand, vaccines are known to help prevent death and serious illnesses. Hence, this paper explores the pros and cons of children's vaccines.

Diseases and illnesses are studied constantly by doctors and scientists trying to find a cure for them. Plague and disease once ravaged our world killing thousands, with no hope or cure to prevent them from occurring. Today, however, is different. Technology is more advanced than ever, and people are living longer than ever before. Life expectancy in the United States has gone up by more than 30 years in the last decades. It isn’t by luck that many diseases now cease to exist, but through extensive studies, and research. The medical field is at the height of its studies with more people being cured of diseases than ever before. Most of this is to the credit of doctors and scientists developing vaccinations that help the body create antibodies, which help fight away diseases, and give the body immunity. I believe that forced vaccinations in children should be mandatory as they have the potential to prevent life threatening diseases, and save countless lives. Though many are against forced vaccinations and say they can cause mental illnesses or brain damage, this has not been proven. The rewards far out way the slight risk, if risk at all of the vaccination having side effects. The individuals who are not vaccinated are left vulnerable to illness, and can potentially infect those around them as well. Leaving scare of an epidemic, and wide spread of a virus. Forced vaccinations in the United States have been beneficial by preventing young children from contracting certain

Just like any other injection, there is the possibility of side effects. Most common among vaccines are swelling at injection site, redness, headaches, and sore throats which are temporary. At only less than 1%, 1 out of 1,000,000, do serious side effects happen

However, as a whole, vaccinating one's child could keep him/her and others from getting sick, and their are many reasons why parents should consider it. Side effects may occur, but are usually minor. “Most side effects from vaccinations are mild, such as soreness, swelling, or redness at the injection site” (History of Polio). The myth that vaccines cause autism has been debunked. Andrew Wakefield published an article insisting that the “measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine were increasing autism in British children. The article has since been discredited due to many different violations with it, and has since lost his medical licence. (The History of Vaccines) Another myth is to wait until the child is older because their immune systems can’t handle vaccines when young. If the child waits to get the vaccine, they may be more susceptible to the disease, putting a great risk of the child at getting the disease. According to Dr. Offit, “a baby’s body is bombarded with immunological challenges, from bacteria in food to the dust they breathe” (Vaccines - The Safest). This shows that a baby’s immune system is well adapted, and comes in contact with many airborne microbes. Compared to everything else a baby may come into contact with, the vaccine is nothing the immune system can’t handle (Ten Vaccine Myths). Lastly, some believe that because most people got vaccinated, the disease has been eradicated. While that may be true in most cases, it can be very risky not to get the vaccination. “The ability of immunizations to prevent the spread of infection depends on having a certain number of children immunized. Unfortunately, the level of immunization required to prevent diseases such as measles from spreading from child to child is high—95 percent" (Ten Vaccine Myths). Just because others got vaccinated does not guarantee one's safety from the disease. There are many misconceptions about

David Wilson was two years old when he contracted polio. Even after many operations, he still had to use crutches and leg braces. Children saw him as different from everyone else, and as he grew older he couldn’t work. His disease could have been avoided if he would have gotten vaccinated. While some believe mandatory vaccinations are an infringement of their personal right, others believe they are beneficial to society in a variety of ways. Getting vaccinated can allow for a healthier environment, the benefits outweigh the risks, and they can be the difference between life and death.

Research by Bigham & Hoefer (2001, p. 175) shows the significant effectiveness and high degree of safety associated with immunization for diseases including Hib, measles and rubella all of which have been reduced by 90% or more and polio was close to 100%.

A common side effect is fever and colds, but that is the only scientific evidence of bad cases. One big argument the anti-vaxxers pose is that vaccines contain thimerosal, commonly called mercury; which when given a high amount can cause fatal damages to the human brain; however new regulations show that they’ve taken thimerosal out as a preservative and is only in the Spanish influenza vaccine. Therefore making vaccines safe. The belief that vaccines cause autism came from a British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, that did research correlating the two together and many parents believed him. However, when the time came for the other scientists to check if his research was correct, they regarded his research invalid for creating his own results and data. By the time the FDA spread the news of Wakefield had already caused the damages. Parents became wary and the use of vaccines dropped. But the thing about this is that vaccines really don’t give autism to children. While many correlate that the rise of autistic kids with the rise of the use of vaccines, it’s very faulty reasoning. There’s more autistic kids now because the medical world has now realized there is another type of autism other than mentally retarded. Whether a child becomes autistic or not does not depend on whether they were

Vaccines really are the most reliable cure that we have for all types of sicknesses that we don't understand how to cure, that is why vaccines are so helpful because they are an early cure. Many people do not get any types of vaccines because they don't believe that the vaccines actually make a difference in one's health. The truth is that most of the vaccinations that we were given during our childhood give us immunity about 90-100% of the time(Department of Health and Human Services). For an example, a case study showed from 1997 to 2003 that one dose of the Varicella Vaccine was 97% effective in the first year, and 86% effective in the second year(CDC). Another example is the HIV virus, also known as the human immunodeficiency virus, has a vaccine for children so they can try to stop the virus early on has been 82% effective with the children that have gotten it, and that is with only one dose

Vaccines are safe and effective. At the same time no drug or vaccine is 100% safe and risk free. There have been instances when vaccines have been withdrawn from market because of the serious adverse effects. Rota virus vaccine (Rotashield) was

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics “most childhood vaccines are 90%-99% effective in preventing diseases”. Also according to Shot@life, a United Nations Foundation partner organization, “vaccines save 2.5 million children from preventable diseases every year which equates to roughly 285 children saved every hour.” The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) also estimated that 732,000 American children were saved from death and 322 million cases of childhood illnesses were prevented between 1994 and 2014 due to vaccination. It is also pointed out that illnesses, including rubella, diphtheria, smallpox, polio, and whooping cough, are now prevented by