It s Winter Vacation, What Better Way You Spend It Than...

It’s winter vacation, what better way to spend it than at Disneyland? Well, last year that might not have been the case. A measles outbreak spread through six American states, Mexico, and Canada nearly infecting 150 people, but thankfully no one died. However, the majority of those infected were unvaccinated. Every year, vaccines prevent as much as 14 million illnesses and 33,000 deaths. At one point, the measles virus had been almost completely eradicated, as well as smallpox and polio, but these diseases are now quickly reappearing, and outbreaks are happening more frequently. As vaccine exemptions increase, the amount of cases only increases with it. Without vaccines, thousands of people would die, and unnecessary cases would spread†¦show more content†¦Many parents fear that vaccinations will negatively affect their child due to the number of side effects vaccines have the potential to inflict. For example, six vaccines have been linked to anaphylaxis—a severe, life-threatening allergic reaction (Mercola). Common side effects of vaccines include, but ar e not limited to, tenderness, fatigue, redness, fever, itching, headaches, muscle aches, loss of appetite, and fainting. Some more serious side effects include seizures, deafness, comas, organ failure, and of course, death (Possible Side-effects). However, what people don’t understand is that the more serious side effects are extremely rare, and it is more likely that someone will die from a falling asteroid or a lightning strike than to develop one of these serious side effects (Geggel). Vaccines were created to stop illnesses, not cause them. Impressively, vaccines prevent more than 2.5 million deaths every year, but there were just over one hundred vaccine related deaths last year (Lopez). Although vaccine side effects do exist, the benefits largely outweigh the risks. Aside from the side effects, anti-vaccinators are supposedly repelled by what vaccines are grown on, and what they are created from. A common misconception is that vaccines are made using aborted fetuses. Vaccines do not contain fetuses, but they are sometimes grown on aborted fetuses.