Priest 1 Antonio Priest Professor Bolton English 101 November 7, 2013 Vaccinations R US

Since the dawn of time the world has been plagued with disease, this led to the early demise of kids, adults, animals, and etc. Decades ago before actual doctor prescribed medicine/vaccines, cures were more based around natural herbs from plants, animals, and water infused with other natural things. It wasnt until technology got more advanced and the diseases got more malignant that vaccinations and things of that nature were created to help cure people. Vaccinations arent so much known as cures. Some vaccinations actually put a harmless antibody in your system to help fight whatever ails you in some cases. Sometimes vaccinations are tested on animals. Maybe now more than ever there are a lot of diseases and sicknesses in which of course we have a cure or vaccination for. Diseases such as AIDS/HIV and other more dangerous diseases dont have a vaccination just yet or do we? What if you were diagnosed with a disease and the vaccination was still a prototype with an extreme possibility of side effects? Would you want the cure that bad to face the possibility of death? Each day a new vaccination is being concocted and/or being tested with good and sometimes grave results. I think everyone wants to be cured from anything that ails them but again at what cost? In Safer Than Safe what was thought to be a cure for polio was actually a recipe for death. The scientists that made the vaccination for polio may have had the peoples best interest at heart, but at the end of the day a vaccination is supposed to help not harm. Although vaccinations are great to have to cure any disease they shouldnt just be released on a good hunch by nonprofessionals because they are dangerous and expensive.

Priest 2 To better understand the Polio vaccination story we would probably have to break down what Polio is: Poliomyelitis, literally inflammation of the gray marrow (of the spinal cord), is commonly called polio. It had other names in the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries, including dental paralysis of children, regressive paralysis, teething paralysis, essential paralysis of children, regressive paralysis, and, goes to bed apparently healthy, wakes feverish in the night, and then is unable to get up in the morning. (Link 86) Judging off of the symptoms and effects of Polio it sounds like something nobody wants or should have to deal with. In earlier years; some may see how a disease like this would have people scared in the early 1900s compared to nowadays. Diseases like maybe HIV/AIDS have plagued our population for years Dr. Links believed that By the year 2010 there will be 25 million children orphaned because of AIDS. This is a human atrocity that women and men must contend with together-and without a vaccine (Link 153). Ive never met any aids victims personally and in which I somewhat agree with Link on that quote but realistically I do think we still need a vaccination to aids and other dangerous diseases.in the same breathe of course the AIDS/HIV rate could slow down if people had protected sex or just protected themselves more carefully when dealing with blood born pathogens. At a few points in the past years scientists have come forward to say they have found the cure to aids, but they never followed up with it. That could be a good thing, but again a bad thing off the strength of possible side effects. If they really did have a cure for aids, and it wasnt concocted properly the cure alone could possibly kill people faster than the actual disease. According to Forbes Magazine an anti-vaccination movement started in 2010 even though in contradiction vaccines are quite dangerous as well as theyre good for you but you got to have common sense towards things like that. Furthermore, as long as dangerous diseases such as polio and aids are running rapid a vaccine is highly needed, but it needs to be more carefully tested and made sure it works.

Priest 3 Although vaccinations are great to have to cure any disease they shouldnt just be released on a good hunch by nonprofessionals because they are dangerous and expensive. However, vaccinations (cures) are a necessary evil of course. Most people dont like being sick so when the flu runs rapid most people line up at the nearest flu shot station. In my opinion no one wants to be sick or remain sick so why not utilize vaccinations when they come to your town? In some ways you can probably see why some people take the risk of using vaccinations in their early stages or experimental stages not knowing possible side effects nor actually caring about them. If the government ever issued out a cure for Cancer or even aids Im sure the demand for it would be high. Most people believe that when cancer hits the body or even HIV/AIDS hits the body thats basically a death sentence. If a vaccination would be developed for these diseases it could possibly diminish the stigma of death associated with the diseases. Every human experiences the cold or flu like symptoms that they take medicine for to cure it. Now more than ever though more people are relying on flu shots and theyre possibly more effective than medicine. People with vicious diseases are quite possibly willing to put their body up to be a sacrament to vaccinations, but could you blame them? Vaccinations are great to have to cure any disease they shouldnt just be released on a good hunch by nonprofessionals because they are dangerous. In Safer Than Safe its learned that the Polio vaccine was created due to a good feeling the doctors had but that good hunch they had cost people their lives. The vaccine was doomed from the start in which we learned it was inevitable, given the limited time allowed and the overall lack of experience in industrial-scale manufacture of biologicals, that the outcome was not quite what everyone expected (Safer Than Safe 185). If I was in the hospital I wouldnt want a rookie doctor working on me or giving me a diagnosis based on a hunch. Would you really want your sick family member to be taken care of by an inexperienced doctor? Maybe if more government officials periodically do sweeps on testing facilities. If they possibly done routine checkups in 1954 they may have saved some people, but due to the wrong protocol 400,000 individuals were

Priest 4 now technically infected (Safer than most 190). Imagine trying to get treated for a disease, and in return you end up with Polio due to carelessness; thats a scary thought. Another thing is why would they let inexperienced doctors experiment with such an important vaccination? Yet again, from my readings it seems as though the doctors hearts were in the right place, but again the threat of the polio disease worsened vs. getting better. Vaccines are helpful, but still dangerous. Not only was their failed vaccination in in the 1940s regarding Polio but in history theyre more recorded vaccinations that failed. You have the Bundaberg Disaster of 1928, Lubeck Disaster of 1919, the Swine flu outbreak in 1976 and thats just to name a few. Even in these days in time the most popular vaccine to get is the flu shot and even that isnt a guarantee. Another example, in 1919 in Dallas, Texas an unfortunate event occurred.an early version of a Diphtheria vaccine ready for children turned out to harm rather than protect. Between October 23 and November 13, 1919, the city of Dallas Health Department injected over 300 children with TAM (Diphtheria vaccine). Of these, 120 children became ill (Links 24). A few symptoms from this botched vaccine were agonizing pain, swelling of the injected arms, high fever, and skin that burst open in areas. What if your child was vaccinated with TAM? How would you feel if he/she became extremely ill or died? Everyone as parents should want their child to be protected and live a long healthy life. We shouldnt have to take our children for a check up or a shot and have to worry about our kids dying. Its a few whom received the flu vaccine and have become sicker than usual from the flu. At the end of the day what seems to be universal or one size fits all sometimes isnt. However, the temporary relief that a vaccination gives isnt dangerous as it may help you get better but lets face it a lot of the times the vaccination is merely temporary; again leading to dangerous side effects. The cost to funding the research for vaccinations is ridiculous. When the H1N1 outbreak happened billions was contributed towards research. A lot of the money comes from taxpayers. So basically do we put money towards mistakes? Thats a lot of money being wasted when something like

Priest 5 that doesnt work because you spend more money cleaning up the mess that was made. If you make a vaccine and 100,000 people take this vaccination and maybe 70,000 people end up getting sick and the rest die; thats a lot of money going towards grieving families, court fees from getting sued, and other things. So honestly if the problem gets resolved from the beginning and the research gets watched carefully it should cost less money. Although vaccinations are great to have to cure any disease they shouldnt just be released on a good hunch by nonprofessionals because they are dangerous and expensive. In conclusion, vaccines are a wonderful thing when youre sick but when those side effects take place you start to have 2nd thoughts at times. If the government really takes the well-being of the people serious they will make sure that these tests and research protocols are done more properly. No one should be afraid of something helpful. In these coming years I can only hope nothing drastic happens from more failed vaccinations. Some diseases can be avoided as far as spreading to keep the rate down such as mask, protected sex, sanitizing hands, and etc. if we possibly do proper cleansing rituals we could help save a few a people also while we wait for proper vaccinations.

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Work Cited

Link, Kurt. The Vaccine Controversy: THE HISTORY, USE, AND SAFETY OF VACCINATIONS Westport, CT: Praeger publishers, 2005. Print. Safer Than Safe. The Atomic Chef: and other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error. New York: Aegean Publishing, 2006. 176-193 Institute of Medicine. Financing Vaccines in the 21st Century: Assuring Access and Availability .National Academies, 2004. Ebook collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 8 Nov. 2013 Bruce Alyward. How Well Stop Polio for Good. Films Media Group, 2011. Films on Demand. Web. 08 Nov. 2013 <http://storm.hgtc.edu:2048/login?url=http://digital.films.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=3503&x tid=48187>. Salzberg, Steven, ed. "Anti-Vaccine Movement Causes The Worst Whooping Cough Epidemic In 70 Years." Forbes 23 July 2012: n. pag. Web

Priest 7 "Vaccination: A Mythical History ~ by Roman Bystrianyk and Suzanne Humphries MD."International Medical Council on Vaccination. Ed. Roman Bystrianyk and Susan Humphries, MD. International Medical Council on Vaccination, 27 Aug. 2013. Web. 16 Nov. 2013. <http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2013/08/27/vaccination-a-mythical-history-by-romanbystrianyk-and-suzanne-humphries-md/>