The battle between whether or not vaccines are worth it become heated in a Frontline news report. According to Frontline, Ashland, Oregon has one of the lowest vaccination rate in America. The reason for this is because mother's in that area feel that past diseases that are no longer infecting Americans are irrelevant this day in age and therefore are pointless to inject into children. My family has always gotten vaccines, but I suppose it makes a little sense. If polio is no longer around, we shouldn't need to put unnatural chemicals in our body. However, you never know if polio will be back again. Furthermore, mother's across the country are becoming skeptical about certain vaccines, such as the MMR, causing infants to endure severe brain damage and possibly linked to autism. Jenny McCarthy is a big advocate for the link between autism and vaccines. Even with scientific research proving that the link is nonexistent, the possible relation is concerning. I would never want to risk my child's mental health for a vaccine if I wasn't sure the outcome.
Palfremon, Jon. "The Vaccine War." Frontline. PBS/OPB, 27 Apr. 2010. Web. 30 May 2014. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/vaccines/>.
The link between autism and vaccines has long since been a pressing issue. According to babycenter.com, mother's were fixated on the use of thimerosal in vaccines. It was believed this chemical was responsible for damaging the nervous system of infants. However, studies have shown that there is no relation between the two and even so, thimerosal has been removed and replaced by something else in almost every vaccine now, yet there are plenty of babies continuing to develop autism.
"Vaccines and autism: Separating fact from fiction." Babycenter.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 June 2014. <http://www.babycenter.com/0_vaccines-and-autism-separating-fact-from-fiction_1470554.bc?page=4>.
