ENG101 Rasmussen Mandatory versus Voluntary Vaccines Discussion Paper It’s time to submit the revision of your persuasive essay. At this point, you should

ENG101 Rasmussen Mandatory versus Voluntary Vaccines Discussion Paper It’s time to submit the revision of your persuasive essay. At this point, you
should have received feedback from at least two sources, so for this assignment, consider all the feedback you’ve received on your draft, including feedback from the Online Writing Lab, and submit your
revision statement along with your 3-4 page fully revised persuasive essay. Your
revision statement should summarize the feedback you received and indicate the
changes made in response to that feedback. Your revised draft should
highlight the changes made, keeping in mind the following criteria:
An introduction paragraph with a thesis statement.
Three body paragraphs that each focus on a separate supporting idea.
A concluding paragraph that summarizes your main idea and provides a call to action.
A properly formatted reference page in APA style that lists all sources used in the paper.
Careful proofreading for grammar, mechanics, and spelling.
Applied revision and editing strategies to strengthen the essay. Running head: MANDATORY OR VOLUNTARY VACCINES
Mandatory or voluntary vaccines
Jolanda Harrison
Rasmussen College
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Some people think that it is the right of a parent to take their children for vaccination
against some diseases. This thought should be twisted to checking on the effects that come upon
children who are not vaccinated. Parents may decide to leave vaccinating their children if they
wish to, but a question that remains is; who will be losing? Their children will be the ones who
will be infected; this is something which could have been prevented instead. In this text, there is
a clear explanation basing on sources to explain with examples the reason why there should be
vaccination despite it seeming to be ‘optional’ for parents over the world.
Vaccination is important all over the world as it is used to control diseases through
prevention of bacteria and virus infections (Moss & Strebel, 2011). Vaccination is important in
reducing occurrences of a disease, but above all, it is more important in avoiding increased
infection cases therefore reduced expense on diseases is an indirect benefit acquired from
vaccination.
When almost every child is vaccinated, there is a high probability that the disease is
eradicated; this means money that used to be spent on such this disease can be channelled to
other diseases. A good example of disease eradicated in the world is smallpox (Weiss, &
Esparza, 2015). Polio is also almost being eradicated and more funds will be generated also
where. This means that parents should consider eradication than just risking. Eradication is
important in ensuring children live a healthy life.
Poliomyelitis is one of the diseases which vaccination being offered against them. This is
an infection caused by viruses and may cause paralysis, breathing problems and even death to the
child. Basing on these serious effects of this disease, the parent should go for this option instead
of leaving the child vulnerable to infection on this kind.
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Some symptoms such as fever, sore throat, headache, vomiting, fatigue, back pains, neck
pains and general weakness in the muscles (Howard, 2005) resemble most of the symptoms of
other diseases which are common. Such diseases include typhoid and brucellosis. This
resemblance may make the parents think that their children are suffering from such infections not
considering poliomyelitis. This may then leave the child infected to deteriorate in terms of the
immune system to an extent of dying. It is due to this that polio should be vaccinated in every
child to eliminate its possibility when there is an infection with such symptoms.
Measles is another disease which is usually controlled through vaccination. This disease
is caused by a virus and is characterized by fever, dry cough, runny nose, sore throat, inflamed
eyes and skin rash (Strebel et al 2011). When going through all these symptoms, it is evident that
they can be confused with other diseases. For an example runny nose and dry cough can be
confusing to a common cold and normal bacterial cough. This may make a diagnosis of this
infection to become complicated if a child was not treated well.
When a wrong diagnosis is done on a child infected with this virus, the child may keep
worsening just because the parent decided not to have this child vaccinated against measles
vaccine. This will, therefore, end up becoming dangerous to the life of this child. It is due to this
that I support the fact that even though it looks like freedom is given to parents to decide for
themselves, they should take vaccination as compulsory.
Imagine of a case that a child is not vaccinated against polio, this is a decision made by
the mother of this child because she says that she is afraid of drugs and does not want the child
given chemicals (Kennedy et al 2005). The parent then takes advantage of the freedom given to
parents to decide if to take or not to take children for vaccination. The child is not vaccinated and
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is left vulnerable to poliomyelitis. This child grows healthier in the growth years and schooling
takes place as usual. The health condition of this child is very much ok until the parents say that
they do not see a reason they had to take the child for vaccination.
At around 16 years of age, the child falls sick. He is complaining of a headache, fever and
fatigue when taken to the hospital. The child is tested for malaria and typhoid but there is no
positive result on them. The doctor prescribes painkillers, antibiotics and anti-malarial drugs
claiming the diseases are at the early stages so they cannot be positive in those stages.
The symptoms disappeared but reoccurred again after some days, this time the symptoms
are accompanied by loose and floppy limbs which when taken to hospital are said to be
paralyzed. The child then is diagnosed to be suffering from poliomyelitis. This makes the parents
regret since paralysis that had occurred was said to be permanent. The child is forced to convert
his life into using a wheelchair because of what the parent decided to do. The situation is
traumatizing but it will forever affect the child.
To sum up, on the above discussion, it is advisable that every parent goes for vaccination
of their child at the required age and time. It is not good for the parent but for the child. A single
infection that was not prevented by a vaccine may change the lifestyle of a child to an extent of
blaming the parents for such a fault. Prevention is better than cure, it is also advisable from the
point of view that parents will always want the best for their children; this is one of the moves
which incorporate best wishes.
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References
Howard, R. (2005). Poliomyelitis And The Postpolio Syndrome. BMJ: British Medical
Journal, 330(7503), 1314-1318.
Strebel, P., Cochi, S., Hoekstra, E., Rota, P., Featherstone, D., Bellini, W., & Katz, S. (2011). A
World Without Measles. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 204, S1-S3.
Moss, W., & Strebel, P. (2011). Biological Feasibility of Measles Eradication. The Journal of
Infectious Diseases, 204, S47-S53.
Kennedy, A., Brown, C., & Gust, D. (2005). Vaccine Beliefs of Parents Who Oppose Compulsory
Vaccination. Public Health Reports (1974-), 120(3), 252-258.
Weiss, R., & Esparza, J. (2015). The prevention and eradication of smallpox: A commentary on
Sloane (1755) ‘An account of inoculation’. Philosophical Transactions: Biological
Sciences,370(1666), 1-11.

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