{"id":13169,"date":"2019-04-11T13:07:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T18:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/?p=13169"},"modified":"2019-04-11T13:07:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T18:07:51","slug":"dangers-of-being-unvaccinated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2019\/04\/dangers-of-being-unvaccinated\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangers of being unvaccinated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology after creating the first smallpox vaccine in 1798. Today, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are 58 vaccines used in the United States. It is unlikely that most people will receive all 58 separately in their lifetime due to modern-day technology of combining multiple vaccines into one, but there are several that are received more than once &#8211; including the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, the tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Td or Tdap) vaccine, and the polio vaccine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vaccines themselves are divided into groups based off of what they do. \u00a0There are several different types of vaccines. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaccines.gov\/basics\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">vaccines.gov<\/a>, when creating vaccines, doctors ask themselves:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How someone\u2019s immune system responds to the germ<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who needs to be vaccinated against the germ<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is the best technology or approach to create the vaccine<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These factors determine what type of vaccine is used. There are four main types of vaccines:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live-attenuated vaccines<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inactivated vaccines<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subunit, recombinant, polysaccharide, and conjugate vaccines<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toxoid vaccines<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 1991 and 2004, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMsa0806477\" target=\"_blank\">study done by Dr. Saad B. Omer<\/a> for the Journal of the American Medical Association, the average percentage of nonmedical exemptions from vaccines increased from 0.98 to 1.48 percent. The increase may have been due in part to rumours of vaccines causing other diseases, such as autism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1998, a study was published to British medical journal <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lancet <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by then-physician Dr. Andrew Wakefield. The study linked the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine as a direct cause of autism. In the next 12 years, multiple studies were produced to track the correlation of autism and the MMR vaccines. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lancet<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> retracted the study in 2010, and three months later Britain\u2019s General Medical Council officially banned Wakefield from practicing medicine in Britain due to his \u201ccallous disregard\u201d for children and their health in his research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a comprehensive<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/nejmoa021134\" target=\"_blank\"> study published by The New England Journal of Medicine<\/a>, all children born January 1991 to December 1998 in Denmark were tested for autism in c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">orrelation with vaccinations. Of the 527,303 children in the population, 440,655 (or 82 percent) were given the MMR vaccination. A total of 738 children were diagnosed with a disorder on the autistic spectrum after receiving the vaccine. The study concludes by saying that the 0.1 percent of the population of children diagnosed provides evidence against the MMR vaccine causing autism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since then, despite it being disproved, there are parents that still believe in the causation of autism due to the MMR vaccines. The fear caused by that scare and the usage of social media pushed the anti-vaccine movement into the 2010s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From 2009 to 2010, there were <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/vaccination\" target=\"_blank\">11,887.88 more deaths<\/a> due to measles around the world. Because measles is highly contagious, its effects spread rapidly. However, there is a vaccine for it and since the vaccine was created in 1963, deaths have been consistently decreasing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">States have differing laws on what vaccinations are required to enroll in public school.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/mdhhs\/0,5885,7-339-73971_4911_4914_68361-344843--,00.html\"> A law<\/a> approved by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules of Michigan in Dec. of 2014 required parents to speak with a local health department representative about their questions or concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to DHS registrar Joe Moore, students need to get a waiver filled out and signed to be eligible to attend school without up-to-date vaccinations. The waiver can be only be attained by going to the Midland County Health Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVaccines are pharmaceutical products that carry a risk of injury or death,\u201d writer Barbara Fisher said in <a href=\"https:\/\/thevaccinereaction.org\/2016\/02\/children-should-not-be-required-to-get-vaccinated-to-attend-school\/\">an article posted by The Vaccine Reaction<\/a>. \u201cThere are genetic, biological and environmental high risk factors that make some people more susceptible to vaccine harm, a fact Congress acknowledged in 1986 in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act when it shielded vaccine manufacturers from civil liability.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fisher\u2019s argument is that schools requiring children to be vaccinated is a violation of parents\u2019 rights. However, the requirement is due to unvaccinated students potentially passing on diseases they have to other children. Because they are putting other children at risk, they\u2019re not just putting themselves in danger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A vaccine is a type of medicine that trains the body\u2019s immune system so that it can fight a disease it has not come into contact with before. Vaccines are designed to prevent disease, rather than treat a disease once it\u2019s been caught. Researching vaccines or speaking to a medical professional if there are questions or concerns is recommended by the CDC and the National Vaccine Information Center.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Jenner is considered the founder of vaccinology after creating the first smallpox vaccine in 1798. Today, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are 58 vaccines used in the United States. 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