Vikas Bharati
Public School
ENGLISH
PROJECT
(2021-2022)
Name: Saloni
Class: XI- H
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Childhood
Vaccination Should
Be Compulsory
What are vaccines?
Vaccines are products that are usually given in childhood to
protect against serious, often deadly diseases. By stimulating
your body’s natural defenses, they prepare your body to fight
the disease faster and more effectively.
Why should vaccines be mandatory?
Vaccination is one of the most effective public health
interventions in the world for saving lives and promoting good
health. Only clean water, which is considered to be a basic
human right, performs better.
Despite this, uptake of vaccines has reduced in some countries
and this is thought to be partly caused by misguided concerns
over vaccine safety.
When vaccines control disease, parents are less likely to witness
the devastating effects of vaccine preventable infectious
diseases first hand. It is then easy for misplaced anxiety or
suspicion about vaccines to override concerns about the disease
itself.
When vaccination rates decline, we start to see a resurgence of
infectious diseases.
That’s why some countries are choosing to make vaccination
mandatory. However, the effectiveness of this approach varies
in countries which have already implemented it.
Why Childhood
Vaccination Are
Important?
Vaccinations not only protect your child from
deadly diseases, such as polio, tetanus, and
diphtheria, but they also keep other children safe
by eliminating or greatly decreasing dangerous
diseases that used to spread from child to child.
A vaccine is a dead, or weakened version, or part of
the germ that causes the disease in question. When
children are exposed to a disease in vaccine form,
their immune system, which is the body's germ-
fighting machine, is able to build up antibodies that
protect them from contracting the disease if and
when they are exposed to the actual disease.
Over the years, vaccines have generated some
controversy over safety, but no convincing
evidence of harm has been found. And although
children can have a reaction to any vaccine, the
important thing to know is that the benefits of
vaccinations far outweigh the possible side effects.
What would happen if we
stopped vaccinating
children and adults?
If we stopped vaccinating, the diseases
would start coming back. Aside from
smallpox, all other diseases are still active
in some part of the world. If we don’t stay
vaccinated, the diseases will come back.
There would be epidemics, just like there
used to be.
This happened in Japan in the 1970s. They
had a good vaccination program for
pertussis (whooping cough). Around 80%
of Japanese children received a
vaccination. In 1974, there were 393 cases
of whooping cough and no deaths. Then
rumours began that the vaccine was
unsafe and wasn’t needed. By 1976, the
vaccination rate was 10%. In 1979, there
was a pertussis epidemic, with more than
13,000 cases and 41 deaths. Soon after,
vaccination rates improved and the
number of cases went back down.
Conclusion
The impact of vaccines is broad and far-
reaching, though not consistently
quantifiable, analysed or communicated.
Traditionally, the perceived benefits of
vaccination were to reduce morbidity and
mortality from infections, and those
remain the drivers for the innovation of
new vaccines, in particular in preparation
for outbreaks or against infections that
afflict the most disadvantaged in society.
However, an increasing appreciation for
the economic and social effects of
vaccines is being included in the
development and assessment of vaccine
programs, potentially realizing a greater
benefit to society and resulting in wider
implementation. There remain challenges
to delivering vaccines to all children and
vulnerable people worldwide, in particular
those in communities that are difficult to
reach geographically, politically and
culturally and these challenges can only
be overcome with the continued
commitment and dedication to this
endeavour on an international, national
and individual scale.
BIBLIOGRAP
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The websites used for this project
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