Vaccines

Do to medical advances we have been able to wipe entire diseases like small pox and soon enough polio. But because of misinformation across the world it becomes hard to wipe out these dangerous diseases. This misinformation is from ignorance to learn what the vaccines do. From groups that believe that vaccines cause other disabilities, like autism, or that people believe that the vaccines would taint them. Many groups in the world believe we should not use vaccines, from small villages in India to even celebrities like Jenny McCarthy here in the United States. Because of people spreading misinformation like Jenny McCarthy or people not educated about vaccines. Many countries across the world require that school children are vaccinated before enrolling into the school. Vaccinate young so that it can be stopped sooner and to stop of what ever disease it is.

Recently in Western Canada has been facing an outbreak of measles, which is a illness that can be prevented by getting a vaccination. The school board has asked more than 100 students and a few teachers to stay home because they have not received the measles shot. Because they have not received the measles vaccine they are very vulnerable to catching measles. If everyone was vaccinated there wouldn't need to worry about people catching an easily avoidable illness.

Making sure the world is vaccinated to preventable diseases is goal that should be easy to achieve. Children who are vaccinated have a 90% to 100% chance of acquiring immunity to the disease. The measles vaccine was listened in 1962 and since then the number of cases in the United States has dropped from 400,000 cases a year in 1962 to below one thousand in 2007.

Polio has almost been eradicated in the world do to the hard work of many organizations informing people and providing help like the WHO (World Health Organization). And we need to continue to this effort to on many other diseases so that they can go the way of smallpox and no longer be a threat to humanity.

Jenny McCarthy on Vaccines
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/03/17/3414061/vaccine-truthers-autism/
Vaccination Policy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_policy
Measles in Canada
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/04/07/measles-calgary_n_5094004.html?1396889949
Vaccines
http://www.vaccines.gov/basics/effectiveness/