Brenden Riesgo Riesgo 1
Mr. Lee
Language Arts
4/27/15
“Vaccinate, Vaccinate!”

I support that vaccinations should be mandatory because they can save children’s lives, they don’t include high amounts of harmful ingredients, major health organizations say that vaccines are safe, reactions to vaccines are rare, and that vaccines can protect the communities. To begin with, vaccines save children by 2.5 million per year. 285 children are saved from diseases for every hour due to vaccines. The CDC has said that 732,000 children were saved from death and that 322 million diseases were prevented from the years of 1994 and 2014. In addition, the ingredients in vaccines are safe in the amount used. Thimerosal, formaldehyde, and aluminum are used in safe amounts in vaccines. Most infant formulas have more aluminum than used in vaccines. Outside activities can expose you to more bacteria than vaccinations can. With the exception of inactivated flu vaccines, thimerosal has been reduced or completely removed in vaccines for children under six. The FDA test vaccines for more than 10 years until

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The vaccinations are licensed. Similarly, adverse reactions to vaccinations are extremely rare. The most common rare allergic effect of a vaccine is anaphylaxis. The reaction happens one per million vaccinations. The MRR vaccination does not cause autism and that the TDap vaccination does not cause type 1 diabetes. The combinations vaccines, such as MRR have not had adverse reactions since the mid 1940’s. Furthermore, vaccinations can protect communities. Community immunity can protect herds of population to control a contagious disease that can likely become an outbreak. Without communities having immunity, the population can be eliminated by these diseases. Lastly,