Argumentative Essay On Vaccination For Children

Over the centuries vaccines have been extremely important to help stop diseases. Parents should not have the right to prevent their child from getting vaccinated. Vaccinations save lives and if only if a child has a specific disease that will react with the vaccination should parents be able to prevent it. When a child gets a vaccination, then the child is basically prevented from getting the disease. In 1796 the English doctor Edward Jenner developed the world's first vaccination. Although Jenner was confident enough in the safety of his vaccine to inoculate his own infant son, in 1853, more than half a century after his landmark discovery, the English government was compelled to pass a law making vaccination mandatory for all its citizens. After Jenner's discoveries many people began to discover new vaccinations for diseases like rabies, plague, cholera, typhoid fever, diphtheria, pertussis, tuberculosis, tetanus, yellow fever, influenza, polio, mumps, measles, rubella, and anthrax. (Ballarlo,
Outbreaks are very common when many people in a certain area have not been vaccinated. (Liz Szabo. "Vaccine Gaps Cause Outbreaks.") Whooping cough (pertussis) is highly contagious and is easily passed to infants. About half of infants who get pertussis are hospitalized. If someone is around infants younger than 12 months, or are pregnant it is strongly advised to get this vaccine. Infected adults can infect infants and will cause them to have a high risk of death from whooping cough. Getting vaccinated helps protect infants and others from catching whooping cough. (Pertussis Whooping Cough) Vaccinations save lives, so for infants or any children don’t get access to them, it could cause deadly diseases to spread in families and to the children themselves. (Liz Szabo. "Vaccine Gaps Cause Outbreaks.") Children are the future of the human race and if we don't vaccinate them then they could