-Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material (a vaccine) to stimulate an individual's

immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a pathogen. Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate
morbidity from infection.
-Vaccination is the most effective method of preventing infectious diseases
-Widespread immunity due to vaccination is largely responsible for the worldwide eradication of
smallpox and the restriction of diseases such as polio, measles, and tetanus from much of the world.
- 25 vaccine-preventable infections.
-The active agent of a vaccine may be intact but inactivated (non-infective) or attenuated (with
reduced infectivity) forms of the causative pathogens, or purified components of the pathogen that
have been found to be highly immunogenic (e.g., outer coat proteins of a virus).
-Toxoids are produced for immunization against toxin-based diseases, such as the modification of
tetanospasmin toxin of tetanus to remove its toxic effect but retain its immunogenic effect.
-Vaccination efforts have been met with some controversy on scientific, ethical, political, medical
safety, and religious grounds.
-In rare cases, vaccinations can injure people and, in the United States, they may receive
compensation for those injuries under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Early
success and compulsion brought widespread acceptance, and mass vaccination campaigns have
greatly reduced the incidence of many diseases in numerous geographic regions.
- Vaccine expemtion form
Reasons against:
1.Pharmaceutical Companies Cant Be Trusted Lets just list a couple of the (many) times over the
past 10 years where a drug or drug regimen has been deemed unsafe and downright dangerous and
yet the pharmaceutical companies covered it up FOR YEARS in order to continue raking in the
profits for as long as possible.
2. ALL Vaccines are Loaded with Chemicals and other Poisons Here is a list of some of the
damaging ingredients in the vaccines on the market today: MSG, antifreeze, phenol (used as a
disinfectant), formaldehyde (cancer causing and used to embalm), aluminum (associated with
alzheimers disease and seizures), glycerin (toxic to the kidney, liver, can cause lung damage,
gastrointestinal damage and death), lead, cadmium, sulfates, yeast proteins, antibiotics, acetone
(used in nail polish remover), neomycin and streptomycin. And the ingredient making the press is
thimerosol (more toxic than mercury, a preservative still used in many vaccines, not easily
eliminated, can cause severe neurological damage as well as other life threatening autoimmune
disease). These vaccines are grown and strained through animal or human tissue, like monkey and
dog kidney tissue, chick embryo, calf serum, human diploid cells (the dissected organs of aborted
fetuses), pig blood, horse blood and rabbit brain.
3.Immunity can be built naturally
Common objections are that vaccinations do not work, that compulsory vaccination represents
excessive government intervention in personal matters, or that the proposed vaccinations are not
sufficiently safe. Many modern vaccination policies allow exemptions for people who have
compromised immune systems, allergies to the components used in vaccinations or strongly held
objections.
4. Vaccination leads to autism
Reasons for:
1.Diseases are becoming rare due to vaccinations.
It's true, some diseases (like polio and diphtheria) are becoming very rare in the world. Of
course, they are becoming rare largely because we have been vaccinating against them.

2. Immunization protects future generations

Vaccines have reduced and, in some cases, eliminated many diseases that killed or severely
disabled people just a few generations ago. For example, smallpox vaccination eradicated that
disease worldwide. Your children dont have to get smallpox shots any more because the disease
no longer exists. If we continue vaccinating now, and vaccinating completely, parents in the
future may be able to trust that some diseases of today will no longer be around to harm their
children in the future.
- Smallpox
- Rabies
3. Vaccines dont just protect yourself.
Most vaccine-preventable diseases are spread from person to person. If one person in a
community gets an infectious disease, he can spread it to others who are not immune. But a
person who is immune to a disease because she has been vaccinated cant get that disease and
cant spread it to others. The more people who are vaccinated, the fewer opportunities a disease
has to spread.
4.Immunizations can save your family time and money.
A child with a vaccine-preventable disease can be denied attendance at schools or child care
facilities. Some vaccine-preventable diseases can result in prolonged disabilities and can take a
financial toll because of lost time at work, medical bills or long-term disability care. In contrast,
getting vaccinated against these diseases is a good investment and usually covered by insurance.
The Vaccines for Children program is a federally funded program that provides vaccines at no
cost to children from low-income families.