Small Pox Vaccine Research Paper

Could you imagine a world without mass vaccinations? A world without mass vaccinations would be scary. People would be going around coughing, running fevers, and having all kinds of diseases. Today we have all kinds of vaccinations such has the small pox vaccination. Small pox has been around for a very long time and lots of people have been affected by it and lots of people have also died from it until the small pox vaccine was created. After it was created only a very few people have actually died from it or died from the vaccine itself. In this paper I will be talking about the small pox and why I think the small pox vaccine should be required.
The small pox disease is something that you really don’t want to have in your lifetime. This

disease is really serious to deal with and the scary part about this disease is that it can sometimes be fatal. Even though the small pox has been around for a long time now there is still no special treatment to cure it. A vaccine can be given to help you have a lesser case of it. The trick is though is to get this vaccine at an early age. The reason to get it an early age is so you will be one of the people that don’t get it or barely get it and by barely get it I mean that it will cut down on the problems that another person would have without the small pox vaccine.
The small pox disease can be spread by different forms of contact. If a person comes into direct contact with somebody that has the small pox disease they have the chance at getting the disease too. This disease can also be transmitted through infected bodily fluids. The person who is infected with this horrible disease is infected with it till there last scab falls off. The small pox disease is contagious for about 24 hours long. Symptoms to have the small pox are fever, headaches, severe fatigue, severe back pain, and possibly vomiting. So it’s basically overall discomfort.
In 1796 Edward Jenner created the first ever successful vaccine for the disease smallpox. Before 1796 it was killing millions of people but once the vaccine was created those number came down drastically. When it comes to any kind of vaccine or medicine there are always the possibilities for side effects. Side effects may include typically reactions to the vaccine which will usually go away with no treatment. The glands under the armpit may also become irritated and sore and can even become larger. Some people may feel bad enough to miss work or school for a few days and some people also have trouble sleeping.
Some side effects maybe really serious or even life threatening.

For every 1 million people 1,000 people had serious reactions they sometimes needed medical attention. Some people who received the vaccine got a life threatening side effect called postvaccinal encephalitis which is inflammation of the brain. Based on past treatment 1 and 2 people out of 1 million people died from a life threatening side effect caused by the vaccine.
In American public education is free to all children but before you can sign him or her up for their first year of school they must have all there vaccinations up to date. Not all schools use to require vaccines but now all 50 states require all first year students to get there vaccine shots and the small pox vaccine is one of those they require. From 1796 to 1972 was the time span that the small pox vaccine was required for everybody. For every million people vaccinated in the past only about up to 52 people had life threatening disease reaction to the vaccine. Only two people died from the vaccine in the past.
At the age of 12 years old a few vaccines are required for all kids too have. These vaccines includes Tetanus, Diphtheria toxoids, and acellular pertussis. Adults are also recommended to get some vaccines but these are not required to have. These vaccines are Pneumococcal PPV, Influenza, Hepatitis A and B, Inactivated Poliovirus, Measles mumps, Rubella, and

Varicella.
While you have read this I hope you have imagine having a world without vaccinations because it quite scary to imagine it. It would be scary with people all the time being sick and getting other people sick with not even the slightest chance at stopping it. I’m glad I live in a world where there is a vaccine for almost anything. I think everybody should get the small pox vaccine because if not it the small pox could cause them to die if they got infected with it and who would want to die from something that could have been prevented in the beginning? I hope your answer is no one and that you hope just like me that everyone would get this simple but yet affected vaccine!