Kiana Peek

ISM- Period 6

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “Five Important Reasons to

Vaccinate Your Child.” Vaccines.gov, U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services, 11 Oct. 2006. https://www.vaccines.gov

 Can be protected against more diseases

 Older disease that once killed children have been eliminated with vaccines
 Polio use to be causing death in US but now with vaccines there are no
reports in US
 Vaccines may hurt but not as bad as the disease they could get without
vaccines
 Over the years measles and whooping cough have resurfaced
 Between 10,000 and 50,000 cases of whooping cough each year
 Getting vaccines help prevent spreading of disease
 Smallpox vaccination ended worldwide; we no longer have to get the shot
 Students can be denied attendance if they do not have all the shots required
 Getting vaccines can help other generations
 The chance that pregnant women will pass virus has decreased a lot over the
years
 If everyone keeps vaccinating today later we won’t have to worry about all
the disease
 Side effects to vaccines are very rare but can happen
 10 to 20 babies die each year because they are too young to be fully
vaccinated
 Certain children cannot get vaccinated due to severe allergies or weakened
immune systems from things like leukemia.
 If your child cannot be vaccinated it is still important that everyone else is
fully vaccinated to help with prevention.

The article on this website went into detail about why you should vaccinate your
child and how over the years vaccines have helped eliminate many diseases over
the years like popular ones for example polio and smallpox.
 Kiana Peek
ISM- Period 6

Bhandari , Smitha. “Do Vaccines Cause Autism?” WebMD.com, WebMD, 20 May

2018. www.webmd.com

 Over a dozen studies have tried to find a connection between Autism and
vaccines and no one has found anything
 The controversy started in 1998
 Researched published paper saying Measles- Mumps- Rubella vaccine
caused Autism
 The first study only had 12 kids
 During 1998 Autism was a very popular condition
 After that study done by a British researcher many doctors conducted studies
of their own and all came up with no connection
 Thimerosal controversy happened a year after the MMR studies
 Thimerosal was a substance used in some children vaccines which contained
Mercury
 Doctors used Thimerosal to prevent growth of bacteria and fungi in vaccines
 Thimerosal contain Mercury which is a metal that is harmful to the brain and
kidneys when at a high level.
 Researcher studied children who had the vaccine that contained Thimerosal
and children who had the vaccines that didn’t have thimerosal inside it.
 investigation into the 1998 study also uncovered a number of problems with
how it was done
 There was no line between Thimerosal and Autism
 People feared that getting 25 shots in the first 5 months of life could lead to
development of autism
 They conducted a study between getting all the shots in first 15 months of
being born or waiting and doing the shots when older than a year to see if
that made any difference and it did not.
In this article, it talked about the most known studies that were done by doctors
or researches who were trying to find a connection between vaccines and
Autism but all came up with no connection in the end.
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ISM- Period 6

“State-by-State: Vaccinations Required for Public School Kindergarten - Vaccines

- ProCon.org.” ProCon.org Headlines, 23 July 2018.

http://www.vaccines.procon.org

 Each state has their own requirements for vaccines for kindergartener’s that
are attending public school.
 Since July 18th of 2018 49 states and DC require DTaP ( Diphtheria,
Tetanus, Pertussis) and varicella (Chickenpox) vaccines.
 All 50 states also require MMR vaccine which covers Measles, Mumps, and
Rubella.
 Only Connecticut requires that a child must have a flu shot before entering
kindergarten.
 Texas is one of the few states that does not require children to have the
Hepatitis B vaccine
 Texas is one out of the 13 states plus DC that does require Hepatitis A
vaccine
 Iowa is the only state that doesn’t require the mumps vaccine, they do
require measles and rubella.
 The PCV (pneumococcal) vaccine is only required in one state being
Connecticut and also DC.
 Connecticut is the only state that requires all nine vaccines that are Hep B,
DTaP, Hib, PCV, IPV, Flu, MMR, Varicella, and Hep A.

This article includes a chart that shows the nine the vaccines that are required
for a kindergarteners entering public school in the united states as of July 18th,
2018 it shows which state requires which because not all states have the same
requirement’s .