Vaccination Technology at its Greatest
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Vaccination: Technology at its Greatest
The gift of vaccination is one of the single greatest achievements in medicine known to man. Since its advent it has spared millions of people from the effects of devastating diseases. Yet in modern day America there is a surge in the number of people who choose not to vaccinate their children.
At the tender age of eight weeks old, most babies in the western world are vaccinated for a number of diseases. These include diphtheria, tetanus, meningitis, and polio, which is an oral inoculation. These vaccinations protect infants from the diseases that once kept the infant mortality rate at about twenty-five percent. But today overprotective parents are concerned about complications or their child developing the very illness that the vaccination was intended to protect against. They let themselves be consumed by reports of serious illness and possible death amongst inoculated infants. While this fear is partially based upon fact, the likelihood of that happening is very small. Not immunizing your child exposes them to a far greater risk of contracting some of the most lethal diseases on our earth...