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The Effects of Non-Vaccinated Children on the Public

Griffin Moore
Chestatee High School












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The Effects of Non-Vaccinated Children on the Public
In recent years more and more kids arent being vaccinated due to the fear of their parents
thinking they will develop autism. The parents are thinking that the vaccines recommended by
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will cause autism to develop in their
child. This belief has been around for a while and is hurting more people who are still
vaccinated. The problem is that the unvaccinated kids are infecting the vaccinated kids and
making them sick. Many doctors and organizations keep trying to keep the trust in science.
Even though the number of kids being vaccinated each year is still the same, one or two kids can
infect others in a short period. There are many solutions to which could prevent anyone from
getting hurt and keep more people healthy.
The difference between vaccination and immunization is by having one you get the other.
Getting vaccinated, if successful, will make some immune to the disease put into the vaccine.
Immunization is acquiring immunity against disease. Immunity is the condition that permits
either natural or acquired resistance to a disease. To build immunity, the body must first be
exposed to small doses of non-threatening. By so doing, vaccination allows the possibility for
immunity against disease.
The way a vaccine works is very similar to the way it happens when a potentially harmful
bacterium or virus breaches the bodys defenses. It rallies the forces of the immune system
before the battle has a chance to begin. With one major difference though, which is that they are
defanged when used in a vaccination. The body is fooled thinking that the pathogen is harmful
and has gotten in. A signal goes to the T cells and B cells of the immune system. Then the
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immune system makes an attack on the invading pathogen. Once the battle is over the memory
of the T and B cells remembers how it can kill the pathogen. Most vaccinations dont block
pathogens from getting in but prepares the bodys immune system for when a pathogen gets in.
There are two types of vaccines live, weakened, vaccines and inactivated or killed
vaccines. Living vaccines only take one injection and allows the virus to multiply and mutate
once injected. This causes a full scale immune response. It is good that it only takes one
injection but there is a possibility of contracting the disease. A killed virus cant multiple and the
immune response in limited. There will be two later injections need to finally have an immunity
to the pathogen. There is not risk in contracting the disease, but it takes three injections instead
of one like the living vaccine.
In 1986 the U.S. government placed the 1986 national childhood vaccine injury act
stating that the pharmaceutical companies have no liability for the injuries that the vaccines give
to a child. Which were mainly induced autism in most cases. This left families without anyone to
blame for the vaccines that caused what happened. Many families dont want to take the chance
for their kids to get autism, so they decide to not take vaccines all together. The body has a hard
time killing one disease from a vaccine, and kids are getting more in their first six months than
adults have gotten in their whole life. Its hard for their developing bodies to fight off multiple
diseases all at once and complications are certain to happen (Link, 2005).
An unnecessary vaccine such as the chicken pox is not harmful to kids today and is just
one more shot unneeded. Man parents think that its natural and healthier to contract milder
diseases such as the chicken pox as younger kids to have the full effect and be better protected
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from it again. Not all vaccines are stored properly and kept at the right temperature to have the
right effect. My doctor and I believe this happened with me, because I got Pertussis (Whooping
cough) when I was 12 years old. I never got the full effect of the vaccine as a child and later I
contracted it. The danger to this is that it could be a disease much more dangerous than
whopping cough such as Influenza, Measles, Meningococcal Disease or the Mumps (Heyworth,
n.d.). I had a better chance against whopping cough because I was much older and knew what
was happening and could controlled what I did. Its a much different outcome for many babies
that get whopping cough.
There is a problem and in some cases vaccines do in fact cause autism. Some sources say
to lower the risk of autism occurring is to combine multiple stands of different diseases together
to lower the amount of shots we give to a child. The best way to fix this and lower the risk is to
separate the time between shots to give the brain a way to recover after killing a disease. The
majority of the development of a brain is in the first four or five years of a childs life. By
putting the brain into Battle with unwanted bacteria, it will most likely change or alter the
development and will cause problems for sure. It is not right to not protect a child and not
vaccinate them. The best way is to delay and separate the vaccine to give the brain a fighting
chance.
Vaccines are one of the greatest public health developments of the 20th Century
(Haertlein, 2012). The diseases like rubella, diphtheria, and whooping cough once killed tens of
thousands of infant every year. We would still be fighting to find out ways to protect ourselves
from these diseases. In many cases parents think that kids should develop immune naturally and
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catch the diseases. The problem with this is that not all diseases are mild like the chicken pox.
Many are devastating in the effects and can kill adults just as easily as kids. It is not that it is just
unsafe for a child to not be vaccinated, but that contagious child can infect many other kids all in
a short period. In all 50 states there is a medical exemption to the vaccines required to go to
schools. All except Mississippi and West Virginia allows religious exemptions and 20 states
allow an exemption for philosophical reasons. Although there are many dangerous side effects
such as seizures, paralysis and death, the public health benefits of vaccination far outweigh the
risks.
Throughout all of the vaccination debate it is important to get a child vaccinated because
it might not kill them to not get vaccinated, but the kid they infect in their same class at school or
day care might not have the same luck. Finding the best way to lower the risk of developing
autism is needed to put trust back into science. Finally, families wont be scared of vaccines and
their kids will be same from deadly diseases such as whooping cough and diphtheria.










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