Today the medical field is exceptionally advanced compared to twenty years ago. More vaccines are given today than in the past. Due to the fact that they’re more vaccines given today and with higher doses‚ many people‚ especially parents question if vaccinating their child is even safe. Others‚ on the other hand‚ believed that vaccines should be mandatory to be given to a child. There’s a variety of types of vaccines out there that doctors believe children should have‚ but should all vaccines be
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completely wiped out‚ for example smallpox‚ just from everyone getting a vaccine. They work by triggering the immune system to attack the virus in the vaccine so the body can recognize it and know to attack it when infected with the real virus. Vaccines were invented in 1796 by Edward Jenner. It was more primitive than what we are used to today. In 1796 smallpox was still a big problem and Jenner noticed that milkmaids infected with the cowpox virus were immune to the smallpox virus as their body had already
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too great to stop using them. In a History of Vaccines‚ the author states that vaccines have helped eradicate the smallpox virus (Hammond‚ 2013). The smallpox virus was a disease that was previously disfiguring‚ contagious‚ and most importantly deadly‚ (Fenner‚ 2006). The smallpox virus affected over 300-500 million people‚ (Fenner‚ 2006). Because to the use of vaccines today‚ the smallpox virus can no longer affect us due to it being almost nonexistent‚ (Fenner‚ 2006). The Children’s Vaccine Initiative
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from the cowpox disease‚ Jenner then tried to infect the child with smallpox‚ but the young man proved to be immune. “It seemed that this attempt at vaccination had worked. But Jenner had to work on for two more years before his discovery was considered sufficiently tested by the medical profession to permit widespread introduction” (Alexander‚ 2003). Beginning in 1831 and culminating in 1835‚ due to increasing vaccination‚ smallpox deaths were down to one in a thousand. In 1853‚ it was deemed obligatory
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as quarantines were enforced‚ where there were no means to vaccinate or inoculate to prevent the spread of a dangerous transmissible disease. In more modern times‚ vaccines were developed to protect against diseases‚ and of course‚ in the case of smallpox‚ the disease was able to be eliminated in 1979‚ so there’s no longer a need to vaccinate against it. In modern times‚ there is little reliance on quarantine‚ though people with multiply-antibiotic-resistant TB and other diseases may be detained and
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Cited: "Drugs." Questions and Answers for Consumers on Penicillin G Procaine. Food and Drug Administration‚ 23 May 2003. Web. 11 Mar. 2013. . "Smallpox Disease Overview." CDC Smallpox. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 30 Dec. 2004. Web. 11 Mar. 2013. .
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“Children are no longer vaccinated against smallpox because the disease no longer exists due to vaccination. The last case of smallpox in the United States was in 1948; the last case in the world was 1977 in Somalia” (ProCon.org). “Jenny McCarthy is an actress and has been in the public eye for her stance against vaccinations‚ “she has
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continued to be spread through wars‚ explorations‚ and city-building. Thus any European who crossed the Atlantic was immune to such diseases as measles and smallpox because of battling them as a child. The original inhabitants traveled to the New World in groups of a couple hundred each. Because microbes such as the ones that cause measles and smallpox need populations of several million to survive‚ the original populations were unaffected by the deadly diseases. However‚ by the time Columbus arrived
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diseases” (p. 1). In the past sixty year’s vaccinations‚ have saved more lives than any other medical procedure. In 900 A.D.‚ the Chinese were the first to discover and use the first form of vaccination called variolation. The goal was to forbid smallpox from spreading by exposing healthy people to the tissue from the scabs caused by the disease. They did this in one of
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Cited: Jenner‚ Edward‚ Vaccination Against Smallpox. Amherst‚ NY: Prometheus Books‚ 1996. Crowl‚ Tom. "Civilization Systems: Self-Interest vs Altruism - Problems in Scaling the Decision Process." Civilization Systems. Web. 01 Mar. 2012. . Darwin‚ Charles. "The Origin of Species." Literature.org. Web
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