Vaccination:
Benefits Discussion
Discussion: Benefits:
Epidemic/pandemic/death prevention
Eradication of fatal/debilitating diseases (ex. smallpox)
Reduced disability due to diseases (ex. Blindness and deafness in babies due to rubella infection of their unvaccinated mothers.)
Vaccines = carefully tested for safety.
Serious adverse reactions (allergic) are very rare.
Dangers:
Some controversial concerns
(discussion)
The medical and scientific
communities have carefully
and thoroughly reviewed the evidence concerning
the vaccine-autism theory and have found
no association between vaccines and autism.
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