Argumentative Essay On Mumps And Autism

There was a time in the United States that mumps was a rather common disease. In the time before a vaccine was developed to help prevent the disease, there were hundreds of thousands of cases reported every year. Mumps is a contagious disease caused by the paramyxovirus which is part of the Rubulavirus family. According to the CDC, the virus has an average incubation period of about sixteen to eighteen days (CDC, 2016). Some people that get the mumps show either very mild or no symptoms and are not aware that they even have the disease. Most people can recover within a few weeks.
When someone begins to show the symptoms of the mumps, they should immediately see a doctor for a definitive diagnosis. The symptoms of mumps that everyone should be aware of are fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, loss of appetite, swollen and
There are those that believe the MMR vaccine contributes to a diagnosis of autism. According to Laskowski-Jones, there was a fraudulent study published in 1998. It swayed many parents to believe that if their child received the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination that child will have a higher chance of being diagnosed with autism (Laskowski-Jones, 2015). That study has since been removed from literature; however it did enough damage to affect the number of children vaccinated. There are still parents that will refuse vaccinations for their children due to the fact that they believe it will cause their child to be autistic. This puts others at risk that are too young to receive a vaccine or are unable to receive a vaccine due to another medical issue. Although there is no scientific proof that the MMR vaccine causes autism, this fact does not convince all parents that this vaccine is entirely safe for their child or that it will not cause other adverse effects. This may cause an outbreak of the mumps. Hopefully, there will be enough people vaccinated to prevent such an outbreak from taking