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    In today’s society we use many vaccines that help prevent many different diseases. Some of these are live, attenuated vaccines, inactivated vaccines, subunit vaccines, toxoid vaccines, conjugate vaccines, DNA vaccines, recombinant vector vaccines. There are also multiple benefits of children getting there vaccinations early. There are also some downsides to vaccinations which will looked at directly as well. The importance of these vaccines are a great help and ultimately outweigh the shortcomings

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    Vaccines should be required for children and adults all over the United States because of all their beneficial purposes and benefits. According to the article, Dear Jenny McCarthy, Here's How Many Lives Could Be Saved Cheaply By Making Vaccines More Widely Available, “Immunization is one of the most cost-effective public health investments”(Matthew Herper). It takes more money to save a child by giving a vaccine, then to pay for their medical bills when they become sick with a disease or virus. Usually

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    For hundreds of years, vaccines have been preventing dangerous and deadly diseases such as polio, the measles, hepatitis, and more. However, as long as there have been vaccines, there has been strong opposition to their use. Perhaps the most common belief is that vaccines—specifically the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine, is tied to an increased risk of autism. Media coverage, based on inaccurate evidence and disproved by scientific studies, has led to a large public fear that autism can be

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    diseases prevented by vaccines are no longer common in the United States. Vaccines prevent more than 2.5 million deaths each year according to the website DoSomething.org. Yet, if vaccines were not used, a few small cases of the measles could quickly turn into hundreds or thousands of cases. With this in mind, why would anyone go against the yearly flu shot or against vaccines in general? This was the question Frontline attempted to answer while producing their film “The Vaccine War”. In the beginning

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    Vaccines; a more than spectacular development of science which has prevented countless numbers of diseases by giving one’s body an immunity to a microorganism by stimulating the body’s immune system and giving it the ability to recognize the pathogen as it enters the body to be more easily and readily destroyed. Autism, on the other hand, has not yet been fully linked back to a specific cause or reason. Because of this uncertainty, disgruntled parents have chosen to believe ideas with no scientific

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    Vaccines and the diseases they are used for have been an incredible scientific feat that has changed the way we live drastically. Before vaccines, people were dying rapidly from many diseases that are now either eradicated or controlled. Vaccines have saved millions of lives and are continuing to do so today. People no longer live in fear of catching a disease from other people due to vaccinations and what they do to the body. Diseases come in all shapes and sizes, and science has been able to successfully

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    many deaths because there were no cures and the diseases were infectious and spread rapidly. We begin our history of vaccines and immunization in the United States with the story of Edward Jenner, a country doctor living in Berkeley who in 1796 performed the first modern vaccination for smallpox, saving his community and many more to come.(why italics) Although the first known vaccines for smallpox are believed to have been used in China in the year 1000 AD, proving that this disease has been in existence

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    Thesis question: "Do parents have a right to withhold vaccines from their children for philosophical reasons, or should parents be forced to have their children immunized for the good of society?" Thesis statement: “Since vaccines have been invented, there has been a lot of controversy regarding the belief whether parents should immunize their children for the benefit of the society or withhold vaccines for personal reasons”. Introduction: It is inevitable that media, especially tabloids and

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    to be vaccinated or the infirm or many others. Vaccines are very safe and clearly effective; only with a recent movement of anti-vaxxers has the safety of vaccines truly come into question. Vaccines are only given to children after a long and careful review by scientist, doctors and healthcare professionals; these anti-vaxxers are under the delusion that they know more than these professionals and adamantly state blatantly false accusations

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    prevented by getting a vaccine. A vaccine is a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases. In the past 50 years, vaccinations have saved more lives worldwide than any other medical product or procedure. The intriguing story of vaccination goes all the way back to ancient Greece. Ever since the invention of the first vaccine more than two centuries ago, there has been plenty of controversy over the

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