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Vaccinating Your Children

Vaccinating Your Children. Miriam Howe Eng 252 Brother Griffin 21 February 2013. A Bit of History. Edward Jenner (1749-1823). Pros of vaccination. Decline of disease. Rise in Disease. Vaccine roulette. Lea Thompson Director of Vaccine Roulette (1989). Cons of vaccinations.

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Vaccinating Your Children

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  1. Vaccinating Your Children Miriam Howe Eng 252 Brother Griffin 21 February 2013

  2. A Bit of History Edward Jenner (1749-1823)

  3. Pros of vaccination Decline of disease

  4. Rise in Disease

  5. Vaccine roulette Lea Thompson Director of Vaccine Roulette (1989)

  6. Cons of vaccinations

  7. What are you putting in your child’s body?

  8. Conclusion • Our choice! • Are the risks worth taking? • Are our children worth risking?

  9. Think about it • Herd Immunity • Rise of diseases • Side effects • Contents of the vaccine • Is it really working? • Should we risk our children? • Make a choice!

  10. Questions Anyone?Thank you!

  11. Bibliography • Belhorn, Thomas H. 100 Questions & Answers about Childhood Immunizations. Sudbury, Massachusetts: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2009. Print. • "History of Vaccine Safety." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 8 Feb 2011. Web. 13 Feb 2013. <http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/vaccine_monitoring/history.html>. • Offit, Paul A. Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All. New York: Basic Books, 2011. Print. • ProCon.org. "Vaccines ProCon.org" ProCon.org. 5 Feb. 2013. Web. 15 Feb. 2013. http://vaccines.procon.org/

  12. Stern, Alexandra Minna, and Howard Markel. "The History of Vaccines and Immunization: Familiar Patterns, New Challenges." Health Affairs. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Feb 2013. <http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/3/611.long>. "What is Polio? What Causes Polio?." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, 26 Jun 2009. Web. 13 Feb 2013. <http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/155580.php>. Williams , Mary E. Vaccinations. San Diego, California: Greenhaven Press, 2003. Print. Young, Leslie. The Everything Parent's Guide to Vaccines. Avon, Massachusetts: Adams Media, 2010. Print. Images found on Google.com

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