Understanding Vaccines: Their Evolution and Impact

Throughout the years the world has made many medicals advancements, one including vaccines. A vaccine is a substance that produces immunity from a disease, which is usually injected by a shot. Vaccines train the immune system by injected the disease into you so that when you come around the bacteria or virus again your body is able to fight it off. When the bacteria or virus enters the body immune cells attack it by producing protein molecules also knowns as antibodies. These antibodies then attack the virus or bacteria. The first immunisation known to us today happened hundreds of years ago when the Buddhist monks drank snake venom to make their bodies immune to a snake bite. However people consider Edward Jenner to be the founder of vaccinations. In 1798 He injected a thirteen year old with cowpox to demonstrate immunity to smallpox. Vaccines are extremely important because they aren’t like many other health things. For example if you don’t go to the dentist that is your own choice and it may have a big affect on you but it most likely won’t affect other people. But with vaccines it can affect the people around you as well as your community. You can catch or spread a disease in a workplace or school.

Vaccines have made the world a healthier and happier place. Many extremely severe diseases that affected people a

In fact, the United States has seen more cases of measles and whooping cough over the past few years. Since 2012 there’s been between 10,000 and 50,000 cases of whooping cough each year in the U.S and about 10 to 20 babies, many of which were too young to be fully vaccinated, died each year. In fact it is often much harder to get an exemption form than it is to just vaccinate. It’s extremely important to get fully vaccinated, because not only does it help you but it also helps all of the people around you stay healthy and