Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Vaccine, mandatory or not mandatory?



Parents are refusing their children to get vaccines.

The issues that the United States is having are that in small little towns, there’s a strong belief in NO vaccines. States in American allow exemptions from vaccines due to religious, moral, or philosophical beliefs, meaning that vaccines are not mandatory. However failing to vaccinate is a failure to protect the interests of those who are most vulnerable. Immunizing a sufficient proportion of the population creates a herd immunity, which imparts protection to those that are unvaccinated. In the Michigan Law Review it clearly highlights rules that pose a problem of aggregation using tort’s law which states that the if an individual’s rights infringe on the rights of another, this law provides a way to redress the harm caused. The numbers are rising rapidly increasing the likelihood of an infectious outbreak.

Vaccines are an important public health issue because it has been raising increasingly the amount of children that are not vaccinated. Influenza has given too much of a risk in the States, and the stakes are high. This is a socially relevant issue because it was reach the epidemic level here in the States. Vaccines are a protection against those viruses that will infect the entire population. If we don’t have a number of people of protect, where does the herd immunity will go and what will happen to those communities around the states.

MMR defined by the Medline Plus is one of the recommended childhood immunizations that protect you from measles, mumps or rubella. The second shot is recommended to cover people who may not have gotten full protection from the first MMR shot. However this shot has caused parents to refuse vaccinations because it appeals to give autism since 1998 a paper written by Andrew Wakefield on the Lancet, causing twenty percent of the population of the USA thinks that MMR causes autism. However this vaccine is given at a very early age where autism can also be detective, ages from four to six.

However, many studies and epidemiologist studied and analyzed the MMR vaccine, which has proven that it doesn’t cause vaccine. However these presents have led an upraise against vaccines also due to mercury and other ingredients that are found in the vaccine that can cause autism from what they know. However it has proven false.

2 comments:

  1. This seems like an incredibly important issue, and I'm glad you are talking about it. It seems like you have done a great deal of research already on the topic. You give the positives and negatives of parents giving their children vaccines. When reading, I actually learned a great deal about the subject. I hope you continue your research, and I look forward to reading more about it throughout the semester.

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  2. Your blog has highlighted the importance of vaccines and the issues surrounding acceptance of vaccines in the general population.

    What is your problem definition? Is it: "Parents are refusing their children to get vaccines"?
    If this is it, you may have to work on it somewhat.

    1) would you like to address all vaccines or one vaccine.
    In your blog, you mention influenza and MMR vaccines. As you write your paper, where is your focus going to lie? Will you address the trends in all vaccines or choose one?

    2) Would you like the focus of your discussion to be on small towns in the US? or the entire country? This can be included in your problem definition to help narrow down what your paper will address

    3) What about a time frame? What data are you considering? Are you going to compare the number of unvaccinated children in 2010 to 2005 or 2000 for example? Choosing a time frame can help you focus your problem definition better

    4) As you may have noticed, I am looking at this from the point of 'unvaccinated children' not 'parents refuse...'
    Parents refusing vaccines can be a cause of the rising number of unvaccinated children.


    5) Consider these examples. You can work on these or the one you have to make it more precise:

    - Percentage of unvaccinated children in small town USA has doubled/tripled over the last 5 years.....

    - High prevalence of unvaccinated children in the US....

    - Increasing proportion of US children not receiving MMR vaccine......


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