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Baylee Warner

Kathryn Blattman

Biology 1010/1015

21 December 2016

Vaccinations

A vaccination is a dead/mutilated disease/virus that is no longer harmful, that you get

injected into yourself so that your body will then know how to fight it when the real disease/virus

comes around. Some say that vaccinations are necessary and protect you from diseases, while

others say that they are actually harmful to you.

“[O]nce an illness is introduced into a community, anyone who isn’t vaccinated can catch

it and spread it, says David Kim, M.D., deputy associate director for adult immunizations at the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)” This quote was taken from an article written

by Schmidt, Hollace. So what this quote is saying is that when you are not immunized like the

states suggest we do, then people won’t get as sick and some people wouldn’t die.

“Pathogens adapt, hosts develop resistance, unforeseen consequences arise.” This quote

was taken from Matt Welch’s article named, “Should Vaccines Be Mandatory?” Some people

say that vaccines are just pointless to get because the viruses evolve and change rendering the

vaccine useless.

Unlike what many people believe vaccines do help more than hurt. There is a slight

chance that the vaccine won’t help a few cases because viruses do evolve, but it is better to try

and protect oneself than to completely leave oneself defenseless to the diseases that are out there.
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Another quote from an article titled, “A Heretic in the Academy.” by Alice Dreger says,

“...’anti-vaxxers’ the likes of the actress Jenny McCarthy, who has suggested that holding all

children to the same vaccination schedule might severely harm some of them. McCarthy’s own

son was diagnosed with autism after he suffered febrile seizures the night following half a dozen

inoculations, and she has publicly speculated that his problems were due in part to the vaccines.”

Many people belief that vaccines cause autism and other diseases of different sorts, but that has

never been scientifically proven. That is just what some people thought is the cause of it, they do

not have any hard proof that the autism of McCarthy’s son was caused from the vaccines that he

had received. In the case of Jenny McCarthy’s child, the autism and the vaccinations was just a

coincidence.

As one might see, everyone should get their vaccinations because it helps prevent

horrible diseases that can cause death, like the mumps or measles. Many people in the Millennial

Generation have never received chickenpox because they were vaccinated for it, and now they

also do not have to deal with Shingles when they are older. There are so many more cases of

vaccines helping people rather than hurting them. If one has the chance to prevent diseases that

can harm and/or kill them and their loved ones, then why wouldn’t one take that chance. Like the

famous parable states, it is better safe than sorry.

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Works Cited

Dreger, Alice. ​A Heretic In The Academy.​ New Statesman 144.5264 (2015): 38. TOPICsearch.

Web. 21 Dec. 2016.

Schmidt, Hollace.​ Why You Need a Vaccine.​ Redbook (2016): 93. TOPICsearch Web. 15 Dec.

2016.

Welch, Matt.​ Should Vaccines Be Mandatory?​ Reason 45.11 (2014): 18. TOPICsearch Web. 21

Dec. 2016.