Vaccination is a Good or Bad thing?

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Most parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are those who live in the cities and are highly educated, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam today. “The ministry has detected nearly 1,600 children who did not get vaccinated last year and this figure increasing every year”.  Vaccination is injection of a killed microbe in order to stimulate the immune system against the microbe, thereby preventing disease. The healthy immune system is able to recognize invading bacteria and viruses and produce substances (antibodies) to destroy or disable them.
Parents are responsible for their child’s health and well-being, including protecting them from vaccine-preventable diseases. In this issue I strongly believe that parents are not aware about the consequences if their child do not take vaccine. All children need to receive routine vaccinations and an annual infuenza (flu) vaccine, unless there is a medical reason not to. Infant and childhood vaccines prevent diseases that can be serious and even deadly such an example measles is a disease that can cause brain swelling which can lead to brain damage or death. Besides that, children can get mumps that can cause permanent deafness. Any child can be exposed to these infections. This such infection can spread to other children through air. Your children may come in contact with people are carrying germs even if they don’t even look like they are sick. No treatment and the only way that proven is with vaccines.
Furthermore, I strongly believe that the parents are doubting the effectiveness of vaccines and misinformation about vaccine makes them scare to let their children to receive vaccines. Misinformation about vaccines also contributes to anxiety and sorting truth from fiction is not always easy. The misinformation that the measles mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine can get autism has lingered in parent’s minds for more than a decade despite more than a dozen studies showing no connection between the two. Neal Halsey, M.D, a paediatrician and director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University say vaccine have risk but our brain has a hard time putting risk in perspective. For example, driving car have a lot of consequences and dangerous but people take as a common and familiar thing. Vaccination can cause redness and swelling at the injection site but most serious risk is such as allergic reaction are far rarer than the disease vaccines protect against.

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