Potential Benefits of Vaccinations
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Introduction We live in an age of incredible technology, discovery and medicine. Smartphones, spaceships, and bionic eyes are no longer reserved for science fiction. Vaccinations are among the groundbreaking medical discoveries which “allow us to engage our adaptive immune systems to produce highly specific antibodies and immunological memory against a potential future infection” (Federman, 2014). Through exposure to an inactivated pathogen in a safe way, the body’s innate immunity learns how to properly adapt to the previously deadly pathogen. Still though, over two hundred years following Edward Jenner’s successful use of cowpox material to create immunity to smallpox, in 1796, there are still those hesitant to make use of vaccinations for themselves and their children (Riedel, 2005). Consequently, it is quite concerning that an anti-vaccination movement persists. Particularly, people are concerned over a potential correlation between vaccinations and autism (Federman, 2014). Is vaccination so harmful that it is worth not getting vaccinated? Abstaining can put others at a higher risk of developing the given disease because there will be more disease carriers in the population. Or is vaccination harmless, or at minimum, do the benefits greatly outweigh the potential harmful side effects? Further, is it a matter of science or simply emotion discomforting those against vaccinations?
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