This 5-page paper is an argumentative essay supporting the need to vaccinate children against childhood diseases. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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life was one reason. The other was the spread of infectious diseases such as Chicken Pox, Measles and Mumps. Thanks to medical technology, we take such diseases for granted today,
but back then, many of them were killers. What has helped us overcome the fatality (and even illnesses) of these diseases are
vaccinations/immunizations (terms that will be used interchangeably throughout the paper). However, despite the benefits of these preventative injections (either through needle or orally), there still remains great controversy over whether
or not children should actually be vaccinated against these childhood illnesses. During the middle of the 1990s, though 98 percent of all
children in the U.S. had received their series of immunizations by the time they entered school, only 67 percent of two-year-old children were properly immunized (Kimmel et al, 1996). Kimmel
et al pointed out many reasons for the lack of immunization of children in this particular age group, and one main reason postulated was because of lack of education to
parents about the benefits of immunization (Kimmel et al, 1996). The researchers pointed out that because most parents of two-year-olds actually grew up when vaccines were available, these parents have
"little or no firsthand knowledge" about the seriousness of childhood diseases (Kimmel et al, 1996). Back in 1993, for example, a Gallup poll demonstrated that, of 1,000 parents of children
under age five, 47 percent had no idea that polio was contagious, 26 percent didnt know that measles could be fatal and 44 percent didnt realize that certain types of
influenza could lead to potentially fatal meningitis (Kimmel et al, 1996). Another reason, according to these authors, is concern and overhype of