Essays on Vaccination

Pregnancy is one of the most beautiful and enlightening experiences one could ever be part of. It is absolutely extraordinary that a man and a women can come together to create, grow, and give birth to another life. From the first time you hear your baby’s heartbeat to the moment your doctor places your baby…

It’s interesting that something so small and minuscule can pack such a big punch. Vaccines have been around since 1796, when Edward Jenner developed a procedure that protected individuals against small pox. Because coxpox is also known as vaccinia that is how we came to get the name Vaccine for this procedure. In 1879 Louis…

As a five year old, I hated going to the doctor’s office to get shots or have my blood drawn, and most of you in this classroom probably felt the same way. Ten years later, I still despise going to the doctor’s office to get any immunizations, but at least now I’m a good sport…

Though the presence of anti-vaxxers seems like a modern development, there has been hesitancy to retrieve vaccinations since their emergence in the early 1800s. Despite the evolution of vaccination techniques, the reasons for refusal to vaccinate have remained fairly similar throughout the two hundred years: fear of some form of mutation (bestiality was the red…

Within society today, there is ongoing controversy regarding vaccinations and if they should not just be optional but be mandated for all. If this were to come about however, the first amendment rights of the American people to exercise freedom of thought, speech, and conscious would be infringed. We as Americans should fight for our…

It is better to prevent a disease than to fight it later. There have been many diseases that have swirled around this county and the world in recent years. These include but are not limited to are, polio, diphtheria, pertussis or a whooping cough, rubella, mumps, tetanus, rotavirus, and Haemophilus influenza type b- commonly referred…

The World can be changed in just a quick minute. There are so many different situations that can cause our World to change, for example, health concerns, severe weather, or even just the way we act as a nation. So many things can change our society in one quick instant. One huge change that has…

Society is technologically the most advanced it’s ever been, religion and science have lived in the same world for decades now. So many problems have been solved with new discoveries, anti-vaxxers ignore data and use past mistakes as meaningless points in their argument. Humans have extended the life expectancy with innovative modern medicine, a woman’s…

Edward Jennet invented the first vaccine, which was for the smallpox virus. (Google timeline) Centuries later, we now have a very large amount of vaccines that have been created with the purpose of protecting the human race from infectious diseases. The question is, how effective are these vaccines? Are they more beneficial or harmful to…

“When Smallpox spread, epidemics were everywhere and killed millions of people. “After getting the disease once, survivors were immune for the rest of their lives. This led to the practice of variolation—deliberately infecting a person with smallpox. Dried smallpox scabs were ground up and blown into the nose of an individual. The person would get…