Vaccine Pros And Cons Essay
My topic is over vaccines in the United States and how we need them to keep our country healthy. My main points are the reasons we have them, the health benefits of the vaccines, and the safety concerns about when we don’t have routine vaccines.
My first point is that there are reasons we have vaccines. Vaccines can keep you healthy, keep you from a life or death situation, the diseases that vaccines prevent are normally expensive to care for once you get them, anyone around you is at risk of getting sick, vaccines are safe, the diseases they prevent aren’t gone, and they are important to your health. Without vaccines, many more illnesses would still be common and a lot more people would be sick. Things like polio, which have been wiped out in the United States, would still be around and still harming the nation.
Polio is a great example of what vaccines can do. In 1955, the year the polio vaccine was introduced; there were a recorded 28,985 cases in the United States. Between 1955 and 1965, the amount of people with polio went from 28,985 to 0 reported cases in the U.S. In that time, the death count also went from 1,043 deaths to 0. Any cases of polio reported after 1965 were often brought from other parts of the world and were not …show more content…
When people travel outside of the United States, they risk getting an illness because if they don’t have their vaccines, they’re more likely to pick up on the native sicknesses that people from outside the area aren’t used to. This means that if they were to travel home, they could cause an outbreak of something, like mentioned above in the Texas story. This obviously doesn’t happen all the time, but when it does, it can be bad for public health in the general area. When people also travel in from other countries can be a problem. Such as with the minor Ebola outbreak, we aren’t always in control of the situation, but then it’s a problem of containing the outbreak and keeping everyone safe from the
My first point is that there are reasons we have vaccines. Vaccines can keep you healthy, keep you from a life or death situation, the diseases that vaccines prevent are normally expensive to care for once you get them, anyone around you is at risk of getting sick, vaccines are safe, the diseases they prevent aren’t gone, and they are important to your health. Without vaccines, many more illnesses would still be common and a lot more people would be sick. Things like polio, which have been wiped out in the United States, would still be around and still harming the nation.
Polio is a great example of what vaccines can do. In 1955, the year the polio vaccine was introduced; there were a recorded 28,985 cases in the United States. Between 1955 and 1965, the amount of people with polio went from 28,985 to 0 reported cases in the U.S. In that time, the death count also went from 1,043 deaths to 0. Any cases of polio reported after 1965 were often brought from other parts of the world and were not …show more content…
When people travel outside of the United States, they risk getting an illness because if they don’t have their vaccines, they’re more likely to pick up on the native sicknesses that people from outside the area aren’t used to. This means that if they were to travel home, they could cause an outbreak of something, like mentioned above in the Texas story. This obviously doesn’t happen all the time, but when it does, it can be bad for public health in the general area. When people also travel in from other countries can be a problem. Such as with the minor Ebola outbreak, we aren’t always in control of the situation, but then it’s a problem of containing the outbreak and keeping everyone safe from the