Topic: Vaccinations should be Mandatory Opening/Attention: “Nearly everyone in the U.S. got measles before there was a vaccine‚ and hundreds died from it each year. Today‚ most doctors have never seen a case of measles. More than 15‚000 Americans died from diphtheria in 1921‚ before there was a vaccine. Only one case of diphtheria has been reported to CDC since 2004. An epidemic of rubella (German measles) in 1964-65 infected 12½ million Americans‚ killed 2‚000 babies‚ and caused 11‚000 miscarriages
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abhorrent epidemics like polio‚ mumps‚ measles and smallpox the older generations did. While it is safe to assume vaccines are here to stay‚ critics have presented damning yet unverified accounts of the ineffectiveness and harmful side effects of vaccinations urging parents to second guess their choice to immunise their child. The act of immunisation itself is the process of equipping
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Vaccinations: Are they important? Forty percent of parents in the United States delay or don’t vaccinate their children (Culp-Ressler). Many parents believe vaccinations have serious side effects‚ but the CDC has not found links between vaccinations and the side effects parents are worrying about. Since some parents believe vaccinations can cause serious side effects‚ they have not been vaccinating their children and are using philosophical exemptions keep their children from having to get those
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centrally planned economy. Smallpox‚ an extremely infectious human - borne disease‚ had infected 50 million people worldwide by 1959‚ however‚ in Czechoslovakia‚ the disease had been eradicated in 1924. Topic #1: Implementing intensified smallpox vaccination programs The smallpox vaccine was invented in 1798 by Edward Jenner‚ and it offers protection from the disease for 3 - 5 years from the
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Making Arguments: The Negative Side to Vaccines Vaccination began as an experimental life-saving medical tool. While it started off with some value‚ today it has become the possible cause of death and disability among children. Currently we see vaccination being talked about on the news‚ there are also articles on this topic‚ a simple search on the Web and people can find a variety of stories and negative experiences children have had with vaccines. My mom works for Chiropractors which
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reasoning is an exception for vaccinations without question. A student‚ who may or may not even have the correct religious reasoning‚ can go to public school without vaccinations and infect a student who has probable medical cause to be exempted. At Meadow Glenn Elementary in Lexington‚ South Carolina‚ "two students have medicinal reasoning for exemptions‚ while 22 students have religious reasoning..." (Branning). Those 22 religious exemptions are putting the two medical exemptions in potentially serious
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McCarthy‚ famous for her time as a comedian and model‚ whose advocacy of the anti-vaccination movement has “Solidified her position in the community of parents of autistic children‚ and further publicized her assertion that vaccines are one of the principal causes of autism‚” (145). Although she is not medically qualified to speak on the topic‚ she is trusted and influential enough to spread the fear of vaccinations to parents all over America. Furthermore McCarthy‚ just as countless other authoritative
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The benefits of vaccination outweigh the risk The world human population is consistently under threat from potentially fatal infections and disease outbreaks that cause death‚ intense suffering and fear. Since time began‚ the world has experienced large-scale epidemics‚ such as the 1918 flu pandemic that caused heavy loss of human lives. Currently‚ flu pandemics continue recurring in different parts of the world‚ while HIV/AIDS remains one of the most serious infections with no cure. Discovery of
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Anti-Vaccination Within the past decade and a half there has been a new movement called the Anti-Vaccination movement. The reason for this movement was mostly due to the fact that many concerned parents and a small group of doctors questioned whether or not the positive effects of vaccination were outweighed by the negatives. In the US alone vaccination rates are above 95% according to the CDC. Because of this high use it was assumed that it had to be the cause of so many ill effects. What sparked
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between vaccines and rising autism rates. The following articles will show that there are varying ideas on the best way to disprove vaccination opponents‚ yet no solid solution has been reached on how to convince vaccination opponents that their fears are unfounded. Frank DeStefano and Robert T. Chen in their article “Autism and Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccination Controversy Laid
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