I want you to do some research on vaccines. Then I want you to write a three paragraph blog - one paragraph should address the pros to getting vaccinations and the other should discuss the cons. Your last paragraph should be your own opinon - after doing the research, what do you think? Are you for or against them and why? At the end of your blog, include a link to a website you found helpful while researching this topic.
Blog due - Wednesday, March 30
Response to ONE classmate's opinion (one paragraph) - Friday, April 1 (and this is not a joke)
10 comments:
There are many pros of getting vaccinated. One is protection against the virus. The measles vaccine protects about 95-97% of children who receive a dosage. Also, vaccines can provide reduced side effects if the child catches the illness. One example is chicken pox. The vaccine provides immunity to the child. This then provides protection against the children around him called herd immunity. Some children cannot get vaccinated due to medical problems. The children who are able to get vaccinated get it then the children who are not able to can still be protected.
However, there are some disadvantages to getting vaccinations. There can be side effects to getting them. The most common are pain at the injection site. Some serious side effects can be high fever or seizures. The vaccination might fail and require multiple doses. Also, the multiple doses may not provide the reaction needed to cause immunity, which will leave a person susceptible to the viruses. This only happens in small cases.
I believe vaccinations are a good thing for society. Vaccinations provide immunity and provide protection to people who cannot receive the vaccination. They are beneficial to society. There may be some cons to vaccinations, but there are cons with everything. Nothing that is made is perfect; there will always be some side effects. However, these side effects are very rare. Getting children and people vaccinated is very beneficial and I will have everyone in my family vaccinated.
Vaccinations are good in many ways. The main goal of gettine vacciens is to stop the spread of diseases, by not spreading diseases we create a more safe and healthy world. Because of vaccines many diseases are becoming more rare and some are even being eliminated. One of the worst viral pandemics was smallpox, and by using vaccines we have eradicated this entire disease. People live longer, aren't as afraid to go places and they safe many lives. Vaccines are our leading front on the war against viruses.
Even though vaccines do a lot of good, they aren't the best thing for us. By using vaccines, we create adapted strains of viruses that have evolved to where our vaccines may no longer work. By trying to stop viruses, we may be creating an even more dangerous virus that we no longer know how to prevent and may be even more deadly. Vaccines can also cause side effects, and sometimes they can be severe. some of these side effects include fevers, aches and vomitting but these are unlikely to happen.
I believe that vaccinations are important, but shouldn't be abused. By preventing and eradicating many viruses we ahve cretaed a more safe and healthy planet, this is a great thing which strongly encourages the use of vaccines. I believe that we should definitly use them because it is a way to defend ourselves and our children from becoming sick and possibly dying. Even though there could be side effects they are extremely rare and shouldn't be a concern when conisdering what could go wrong. They are a way of life and an improver of life.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm
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As I’ve read I’ve noticed that a majority of the pros involved with getting vaccines are pretty much the same. They serve a general purpose to prevent getting the disease in the future, and they work most of the time. I read that vaccines provide long-term protection, but not life-long protection. Long-term is good while it lasts. Side effects often aren’t too bad. There are rare cases in which they are, but that’s going in with the cons. Vaccines are very nice in that they can make the disease easier to cope with and help our body retaliate faster. Not only that, but they can make the side effects easier on us. Another nice thing about vaccinations is that they aid in the prevention of spreading the disease to others.
I found that there were a number of minor disadvantages associated with vaccinations. Most of the time you’d experience pain around the site of injection, irritation, itchiness, and things of the sort. As I mentioned above, vaccinations don’t always provide life-long immunity; after they wear out, a booster is required to renew your warranty. I read that in very rare cases, people who’ve received the vaccination for Hepatitis A can experience severe allergic reactions and possibly death. I’m not sure how trustworthy that is being that it’s a vaccination that’s supposedly causing it. What I find most annoying is that some diseases are self-limiting and only occur one or a few times before offering life-long immunity. The chicken pox would be a good example, and I also read that Hepatitis A is similar, only that it will occur more than once before you acquire immunity. It seems like it’d be a waste of time to get certain vaccinations for, let’s say the chicken pox, since they aren’t too bad. I wouldn’t mind getting them again, but maybe I’m not recalling exactly how badly they itched. Sometimes after getting vaccinated one will still experience symptoms of the disease that can be contagious.
All in all, I’d say that getting vaccinations is the best way to go if you plan on being healthy and NOT getting the diseases. As I just said, there are some diseases in which it seems pointless to get vaccinated for; a majority of the vaccinations will prove to be beneficial. They’ll help to keep us safe, keep us from spreading stuff, and hopefully they’d also keep others around us safe. The risk for really bad side effects is small, and it sounds like a risk worth taking to me. Get vaccinated. It helps our bodies retaliate. RETALIATE! I like that word. OK? Good.
I got everything from this site and previously learned stuff. It's very brief.
http://www.ncoh.net/services/education/askdrp.php?aid=52
I read Brittany's and i never knew what it was called when you get a vaccine and it protects others around them, it is known as herd immunity. I also had the part about the main problem with vaccines are the side effects, so i agree with that. But since it happens hardly ever, its not a big deal which is also what i found. You and I both agree that vaccinations are good by helping society. Overall I liked your comment and agreed with it fully.
@Aaron: I believe you hit most of the points I read over, and I like that you think vaccines are good but shouldn’t be abused. They’ve proven to be more beneficial to us than many other things. Since the first thing to do when searching for a virus is to isolate it, vaccines may usually help preventing the spread of the disease. Symptoms generally aren’t too bad either, so that’s a plus. Unfortunately, we haven’t created vaccines for everything on the planet. You made a good point about the constant evolution of certain diseases and how we may actually be doing ourselves bad by making vaccines; I think that if this is true we may never create vaccines for everything since they’re ever-changing. We’d get rid of one and another would take its place when it got the chance.
I agree with Aaron. People should be get vaccines because they are important for a person’s health and the people around them. Vaccines are a great way to stop children from dying of diseases that we can prevent. Also, he mentioned a lot of good facts for both pros and cons. I really like how he mentioned that because of vaccines, the virus can mutate as being a con. I thought the elimination of small pox was a really good example for a con of vaccines. Aaron wrote a good response and I agree with most of what he said.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5447737_pros-cons-vaccinations.html
Vaccinations like most things have their ups and downs. Children who get vaccines develop immunity to harmful diseases. This is done injecting the body with a weaker version of the disease causing the body to produce antibodies which in the future will quickly recognize the same disease to fight it. Those who get vaccinated don't risk infecting others around them. Without vaccines a lot of people would be dead, since some people won't be able to handle them.
The downs of vaccines is the side effects which range from fevers to suffering from complications such as deafness and brain damage. It should be known however ever that severe and moderate symptoms are rare. Vaccinations have also been linked to autsim in young children, which is causing some parents to not want to get their children vaccinated.
My opinion of vaccinations is that the ups out weigh the downs. There isn't enough evidence to prove that autism is caused by vaccinations and the side effects are really light compared to actually having the disease. I don't like the idea of others not getting vaccinated, because it puts everyone at risk. Without vaccines a lot of people would not be around today. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/
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