Vaccine-preventable
diseases of present day have been a major cause of illness,
death, and disability throughout the history of mankind. The
advent of the modern vaccine era has changed this significantly.
If one can recollect a pre-vaccine era where diseases such
as mumps and measles, not to say about smallpox or polio were
common and often deadly. In more recent times, media is flooded
with debates among public and medicos regarding vaccine safety.
The success of immunization programs
depends on public confidence in their safety and acceptance
of their efficacy. Concerns about immunization safety often
follow a pattern: some researchers may suggest that a medical
condition is an adverse effect of some vaccination and some
premature announcement will be made about the alleged adverse
effect. Whether some other group re-conduct the study is a
question. Anyway, for the vaccine to obtain public confidence,
it takes several years. A good example is the now discredited,1998
study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield that linked the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella)
vaccine and autism. After this UK saw a fall in immunization,
but US did not have a significant impact.
Before the routine use of the measles
vaccine (1963) and the MMR vaccine (1971), measles cases were
as high as 500,000 and 500 measles deaths resulted every year
in the United States alone. After hitting a record low number
of cases in 2004 (with just 37 cases), it seems to be progressing
to the highs over the last few years now.
The United States has experienced
a record number of measles cases during 2014, with 644 cases
from 27 states reported to CDC's National Center for Immunization
and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD). This is the greatest number
of cases since measles elimination was documented in the US
in 2000.
A couple of autism activists like
actresses Jenny McCarthy and Kristin Cavallari continue to
promote the thought that immunisation is dangerous.
Anti-vaccine supporters argue that
the reduction in infectious disease is a result of improved
sanitation and hygiene rather than vaccination or in other
words they say infections already started to decline before
the introduction of specific vaccines.
Andrew Wakefield-father of anti-vaccination
movement insists that we will all soon see that he has been
right all along, however, important organizations like the
American Academy of Pediatrics and groups like Autism Speaks
continue to emphasize the safety and efficacy of the MMR vaccine
and urged the parents to completely vaccinate their children.
A New England paediatrician writing
in the Daily Beast whose pseudonym is Russell Saunders has
called the present situation "sheer lunacy".
"Unvaccinated children should
be prohibited from attending public schools unless they have
a medical reason", writes Phil Plait in Slate.
The Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics
(AAP) recommend that healthy children get vaccinated against
14 diseases by age 2 (with boosters later for some), along
with an yearly flu-vaccine. In fact, the government supports
vaccines so strongly that even any uninsured child can walk
into a clinic and get his or her shots for free. "Immunizations
are simply one of the greatest public-health achievements,"
says Mary Glode M.D., professor of pediatrics at the University
of Colorado in Denver.
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