Vaccination Case Studies

Vaccinations began to be promoted by an outbreak of smallpox in 1721. But until 1796 there were no vaccines for smallpox. An English physician created a smallpox vaccine by using a small dose of cowpox that the immune system would build immunity against. Since that day, this vaccine has been used for about 200 years. Vaccines have been known to help people, but has that always been the case. Dr. Andrew Wakefield did a study about vaccines for measles, mumps, and rubella, and he claimed that they caused autism. Brian Deer, an investigative reporter, began to investigate the matter. It turned out that Wakefield had been paid by lawyers that had been “hoping to sue vaccine manufacturers and to create a vaccine scare.” Wakefield had studied 12 children, and five of them already had developmental problems before getting vaccinated, plus three did not have autism at all. So in that case vaccines were not bad, but in 1999 a mercury based preservative, thimerosal, was one ingredient that anti-vaccine activists wanted to be removed. Most vaccines in the U.S. didn’t contain thimerosal by 2009. Unvaccinated kids were banned from school since children and teens can catch almost any contagious thing and it spreads like wildfire. Many doctors wouldn’t treat children who weren’t vaccinated. Some lawyers thought that parents that didn’t get their children vaccinated should be sued if other children got harmed or sick. Using vaccinations helped
If we did not have vaccines, many people could get very sick and more people would die of the disease each year. Polio was a very serious disease, but know it is less common and that is because of vaccinations.
Vaccines relate to this community people have different opinions on vaccines. Some people do not like the ingredients in the vaccines and want the ingredient changed. Some people want to get rid of vaccines altogether and they had to sneak around to do it, instead of using real