Question

"Should Parents be Able to Refuse Vaccines for Their Children?"

1)Why can’t the parents refuse vaccine for their child?

2) What are the bases for giving your child a vaccine?

3) What benefits does a vaccine have for your child?

Answer 1

1) A vaccine activates our immune system without making us sick. Many dangerous infectious diseases can be prevented in this simple and effective way. A vaccine activates our immune system without making us sick.
2) There is overwhelming scientific consensus that vaccines are a very safe and effective way to fight and eradicate infectious diseases. The immune system recognizes vaccine agents as foreign, destroys them, and remembers them. When the virulent version of an agent is encountered, the body recognizes the protein coat on the virus, and thus is prepared to respond, by first neutralizing the target agent before it can enter cells, and secondly by recognizing and destroying infected cells before that agent can multiply to vast numbers. Limitations to their effectiveness, nevertheless, exist. Sometimes, protection fails because of vaccine related failure such as failures in vaccine attenuation, vaccination regimes or administration or host related failure due to host's immune system simply does not respond adequately or at all. Lack of response commonly results from genetics, immune status, age, health or nutritional status. It also might fail for genetic reasons if the host's immune system includes no strains of B cells that can generate antibodies suited to reacting effectively and binding to the antigens associated with the pathogen. Even if the host does develop antibodies, protection might not be adequate; immunity might develop too slowly to be effective in time, the antibodies might not disable the pathogen completely, or there might be multiple strains of the pathogen, not all of which are equally susceptible to the immune reaction. However, even a partial, late, or weak immunity, such as a one resulting from cross-immunity to a strain other than the target strain, may mitigate an infection, resulting in a lower mortality rate, lower morbidity, and faster recovery.
3) The goal of public health is to prevent disease. It's much easier and more cost-effective to preventa disease than to treat it. That's exactly what immunizations aim to do.Immunizations protect us from serious diseases and also prevent the spread of those diseases to others. Over the years immunizations have thwarted epidemics of once common infectious diseases such as measles, mumps, and whooping cough. And because of immunizations we've seen the near eradication of others, such as polio and smallpox.
Some vaccines need to be given only once; others require updates or "boosters" to maintain successful immunization and continued protection against disease.