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Duyen Nguyen

Mr. Gaffey

02/02/2012

More parents think its safer to delay vaccines.

The article talks about a large amount of parents delay to follow the vaccine

schedule for their children. Even the parents who follow the schedule believed

that delaying vaccines would help to decrease the side effects. However, Dr. Paul

Offit, vaccine research claimed that delay in vaccine schedule will do no good in

protecting against the vaccine side effect. The survey also shows that those

parents who delay their children vaccine schedule do not know how much that

will make their offspring and themselves being risky to the whole community for

those children do not have the sufficient Antibodies against the infectious

disease. Dr. Offit believes that those schedules only helps to protect their

children based on tons of experimental trials.

The research includes parents that have different vaccine choices, incomes,

education and demographic, and have children from 6months to 6 years old. Dr.

Amanda Dempsey believed that because of their experiences, parents usually

skip flu and chicken pots for their children. However, the study shows that

people without these vaccines can lead to staying in the hospital and risk of

death. However, the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella are often delayed

rather than skipped because those related to autism. The author of the study say

that those people saw less people with flu and chickenpot, and at the same time,

hear more stories about the adverse vaccine story. The doctor say that the more


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vaccine you do, the less likely chanced you will get the disease. Moreover, having

5 shots for a young infant can be really scary to their parents.

The clinic now has commonly encounters any parents that refuse the vaccine

schedule. The AAP said that the clinic should not alienate the families that refuse

the vaccine schedule but better help them get some in. The study shows that the

distrust on vaccine will continue.

VACCINES AND AUTISM TIMELINE: HOW THE TRUTH UNFOLDED.

Dr. Wakerfield started his research on 1998, claiming about the link between

MMR vaccines and autism. One year later, the AAP announces that there are no

direct links between autism and vaccines. 2 years later, a big research concludes

there are no links between autism and vaccines. September 2007, Jenny Mc.

Cathy talks about a possibility of a link between vaccines and autism. In 2004,

Wakerfield was sued and the Immunization Safety Review Committee announces

the evidence shows no sign of vaccines-autism linkage. In 2008, there is a study

shows that there are inconsistent relationship between vaccines and autism. In

2009, actress Holly Robinson Peete writes an articles saying that this should not

make parents fearful of getting their children vaccinated. Few years later,

Wakerfield got ripped off his license and studies have shown no sign of autism

and vaccination. Although there are still public debate ( 2010), they found out

that Wakerfields information is incorrect and thus invalid.

My response: I think that parents should have a more in-depth understanding in

giving their children vaccination. They should understand that the distrust was

caused by a falsified study. The reason why the distrust gets bigger is because


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public freaks out and at that time (few years ago), there were not sufficient

technologies to prove it. However, everything has changed now and it is proven

that there is no linkage between autism and vaccination. The parents should

know that their children should get an on-time schedule for the vaccination. This

will not only help the children from the infectious disease (children are more

vulnerable and do not have sufficient antibodies). This will, in fact, help the

whole community to be safe from the infectious disease on global scale.

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