Childhood Vaccination Research Paper
Pamela McLaughlin
South University
Dr. Jay Comp III
The Irrelevance of Childhood Vaccinations
The love a parent has for a child is something that is precious and cherished. Parents are providers and protectors of their children. Even though there are no federal vaccination laws, the United States makes it a mandatory requirement that all school-aged children entering into the public school systems be vaccinated. Although vaccination is a requirement, all fifty states issue medical exemptions while forty-eight states allow religious exemptions and twenty states allow exemptions for philosophical reasons. As parents, they would want their child to be educated and safe. Therefore, …show more content…
With Diphtheria once being a major cause of illness and in extreme cases death among children in the1930’s there hasn’t been any cases reported in the United States for many years. Polio became an epidemic in the early 1900’s in countries that had relatively high standards of living, but has been eliminated from the Western Hemisphere. Smallpox plagued many populations for thousands of years, however the last known case occurred in Somalia in 1977. The question in hand could be that with all the diseases that the vaccinations fight against we haven’t seen any cases or instances of them effecting our lives or children for many decades what exactly is the purpose to keep fighting against them. The thought of the decreased mortality has been contributed to improved hygiene, water standards, and better nutrition. The common vaccinations are known to cause serious reactions including anaphylactic shock, paralysis, and sudden death. They can trigger autoimmune disorders such as lupus, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and other disorders (ProCon.org, 2011). The risk is not worth taking, especially considering most diseases are not necessarily life threatening. With the advances in our medicine we can care for and treat the diseases much differently then in the early
South University
Dr. Jay Comp III
The Irrelevance of Childhood Vaccinations
The love a parent has for a child is something that is precious and cherished. Parents are providers and protectors of their children. Even though there are no federal vaccination laws, the United States makes it a mandatory requirement that all school-aged children entering into the public school systems be vaccinated. Although vaccination is a requirement, all fifty states issue medical exemptions while forty-eight states allow religious exemptions and twenty states allow exemptions for philosophical reasons. As parents, they would want their child to be educated and safe. Therefore, …show more content…
With Diphtheria once being a major cause of illness and in extreme cases death among children in the1930’s there hasn’t been any cases reported in the United States for many years. Polio became an epidemic in the early 1900’s in countries that had relatively high standards of living, but has been eliminated from the Western Hemisphere. Smallpox plagued many populations for thousands of years, however the last known case occurred in Somalia in 1977. The question in hand could be that with all the diseases that the vaccinations fight against we haven’t seen any cases or instances of them effecting our lives or children for many decades what exactly is the purpose to keep fighting against them. The thought of the decreased mortality has been contributed to improved hygiene, water standards, and better nutrition. The common vaccinations are known to cause serious reactions including anaphylactic shock, paralysis, and sudden death. They can trigger autoimmune disorders such as lupus, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and other disorders (ProCon.org, 2011). The risk is not worth taking, especially considering most diseases are not necessarily life threatening. With the advances in our medicine we can care for and treat the diseases much differently then in the early