Adverse Reactions to Vaccines and the Disease That Vaccines Were Developed to Prevent - Essay Example

People welcome the vaccinations, delighted that they had protection against the deadly disease without a second thought to what the side effects in other forms of illness could be. The rise of vaccinations took place when governments started making it compulsory for every child born and adult to get vaccinated. Today it is common practice in the United States to get vaccinated against Measles, Mumps and rubella.

As parents are becoming more aware and advancements in healthcare are also being made to analyze the side effects of medication we have come to know about the horrors of preventive magazines.

A doctor reported that cancer was practically unknown until the Smallpox vaccine was introduced and 97% of the population was vaccinated. All cases of cancers were seen in the people who had been introduced to the vaccine and not a single case of cancer was reported in the people who had not been vaccinated. Even though it is hard to be sure but medical researchers now believe that before vaccinations were introduced Down’s syndrome and Sudden infant deaths were unknown problems.

Parents in the United Kingdom have reported the connection between Meningitis C and autism and severe brain damage. One parent even went as far as to keep blaming herself for getting those vaccinations when she saw what happened to her son two days later. Getting vaccinated means getting weakened pathogens inside your body, if by any chance you have a compromised immune system or your body is unable to detect the threat the likely chance is that even the weak pathogen will take the toll on your health and cause complications.

Diagnosing a weak immune system in infants and even children is not a common practice before giving the shots.

A vaccine pressure group, which has been forcing the governments to research and monitor vaccine side effects, put forward cases of children who were prone to the side effects of vaccines.  They put forward around 2000 cases out of which 1800 have resulted from MMR, 170 from DTP triple and the others from Hib. Some of the side effects that are even listed on the drug by pharmaceuticals by law are convulsions that have a strong risk of developing into epilepsy and arthritis are caused by the vaccination given to prevent Rubella (German Measles).

 It is not necessary that vaccines act immediately or the receiver shows any ill health effects in the short term future, some of them are known to contribute to longer-term health problems such as eczema, asthma and allergies since the immune system has been trained to react to every foreign body in the body.