Summary: The Benefits Of Vaccinations

The Benefits of Vaccinations

Vaccinations an effective weapon against infectious diseases or a toxic potion of potentially lethal preservatives? You decide. While numerous vaccines are primarily envisioned to prevent disease they do not necessarily protect against infection, vaccinations has proved to be an efficient way of improving health, and it has saved millions of lives. In the United States of America, there has been a 99% decline in occurrence for the nine diseases for which vaccines have been suggested for decades. Vaccine safety has gotten more attention than vaccination effectiveness, today vaccines have been proven effective and greatest vaccine worries have been shown to be deceitful. Misleading information regarding vaccinations
In recent studies there we believed to be a link between thimerosal and Autism. In July 1999, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention posted this statement on their website “the Public Health Service agencies, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and vaccine manufacturers agreed that thimerosal should be reduced or eliminated in vaccines as a precautionary measure”, (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP)). If you search the Internet for vaccinations you will find more information about the risks of vaccinations rather than the benefits. The antivaccine movement has posed a threat to the wellness of society not only in the United States but also globally. There is no doubt that vaccines are an effective tool for both individual health and public health, and
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends following their vaccination schedule. Once the vaccination is given, the body will then believe it is under a full-scale invasion by the disease, the body’s immune system will then produce antibodies against this intruder. The immune system will create a memory of this disease to recognize the invader. If the body became infected again with the disease the immune system will quickly recognize the intruder and neutralize it immediately. The vaccination is a harmless version of the germ. Diseases are preventable with this process and yet today we see a decline in children that are immunized. According the World Health Organization “in 2008 an estimated 1.5 million deaths among children under 5 years old were due to diseases that could have been prevented by routine vaccinations. This represents 17% of global total mortality in children under 5 years old”. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is the world’s largest purchaser of vaccines that provides immunizations for more than one third of the world’s children. According to UNICEF “this organization has helped cut measles deaths by 71% since 2000, they have eliminated polio in 122 countries since 1988 and has created a new vaccine against pneumonia the top killer of