Vaccinations

Colleges can't force you to get a vaccination, though they can bar you admission if you refuse, since it can endanger their students and faculty.

Yes, it is covered as a preventive care benefit. The elderly, 65+, are those who could be on Medicare and that is the same demographic as those who have the most complications and secondary conditions due to the seasonal flu. Estimates of the number of people who die each year in the US from influenza are as high as 36,000, most of whom are the population who have Medicare coverage and also the very young. It is in the taxpayers' best interest to help them avoid getting the flu with use of vaccinations, because the cost of care of a serious complication of the flu is tremendously higher than the costs of this preventive medicine which also prevents them from giving it to others who may be even more vulnerable. A true win-win situation.

there is no cure so it is important for a healthcare worker

Campack is another term for measles. IN the US babies are given the MMR shot for measles, mumps, and rubella. Perhas that is the same in Europe?

Yes. A recent study has shown that Gardasil is 90% effective at preventing genital warts in males. Genital warts are caused by HPV (Human Papiloma Virus). Genital warts are responsible for most penile and rectal cancer, and by vaccinating against HPV, these men are protected from penile and rectal cancer caused by HPV. Giving the vaccine to men will also mean that they can not transmit HPV to their female partners. This would greatly reduce the risk of cervical cancer due to HPV infections in women. If all boys and girls were vaccinated for HPV, the HPV virus would be eliminated, causing rates of cervical, penile, and rectal cancer to drop by 80%. For the vaccine to be effective it must be given before an individual is exposed to HPV. This is why the vaccine should be given in childhood, usually between the ages of 9 and 14. However the vaccine can and should be given to men of any age, as it reduces the risk of getting HPV, genital warts, and penile and rectal cancers caused by HPV. At this point doctors can give the HPV vaccine Gardasil to males as an off label use. The label for Gardasil should be updated by the summer of 2009 to indicate its use for prevention of HPV infection, genital warts, penile cancer, and rectal cancer in males.

yeah, sure, go for it

No. Not at all.

Yes. Vaccination for HPV can reduce the risk of HPV (Human papiloma virus) infection, genital warts, and cervical cancer in women and penile and rectal cancer in men. The HPV vaccine Gardasil was first recommended for use in women, but it is not recommended for use in males and females to further reduce the incidence HPV, genital warts, cervical cancer, penile cancer, and rectal cancer. Ideally, the vaccine should be given to girls and boys before adolescence, usually between ages 9 and 13, because the vaccine must be given before HPV exposure. Just as boys and girls are routinely immunized for measles, mumps, rubella, polio, tetanus, hepatitus A and B, diphtheria, pertussis, meningitis, and chicken pox, they should also be routinely vaccinated for HPV, which protects them from HPV infection, genital warts, and cervical, penile, and rectal cancers caused by HPV.

1. Yes, the reason that there is an argument about it is because so many people were vaccinated that we don't see the dire results that these diseases bring.

2. It depends on who you ask. If you asked pharmaceutical company employees (or the person who answered this question first), you would probably hear overwhelming support for vaccinations. If you asked mainstream medical doctors, you may hear support for them publically/professionally, but their private thoughts may be another matter. If you asked parents whose children have died or been afflicted with neurological impairments as a result of vaccinations, you would probably hear an entirely different answer.

In my opinion, most of the diseases against which we are recommended to vaccinate our children are relatively mild diseases and are treatable by antibiotics. Measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, and chicken pox are usually fairly mild and will contribute to a strengthened immune system. Polio is pretty much obsolete. Only one case has surfaced within the last ten years in the U.S., and it was actually caused by the oral polio vaccine. Diptheria is extremely rare. Moreover, children shouldn't be getting vaccines for uterine cancer (especially boys), and they shouldn't be getting vaccines for Hepatitis B, a sexually transmissible disease.

In my opinion, not only do children not need these vaccines, the vaccines themselves carry risks. Google the risks. Furthermore, even if they are successful in conferring immunity (it can be argued that effective hygiene and health habits have been more successful in eliminating certain diseases than vaccines) that artificially acquired immunity has a shelflife. Naturally acquired immunity (strengthening ones immune system through getting mild diseases) does not have a shelflife.

Finally, children have developing immune systems. Why do we as a culture feel that it is okay to inject them with known toxins/poisons in the name of preventing relatively benign diseases; diseases that can actually help them develop strong, mature immune systems? I'll take a stab at the answer: Pharmaceutical companies have a great deal of money and power. They fund the medical schools and participate in curriculum development. They have long been pulling the strings of government at all levels, and the media is very supportive (perhaps because the Boys Club is actually very small). The average consumer believes what (s)he is told, especially when it comes from "reliable" sources like the CDC, a government-sponsored TV ad, or a pediatrician, and has such great faith in those sources (or is just complacent) that (s)he feels that there would be no net benefit in doing his/her own research. Actually, it goes a little beyond that. The average person is terrified that (s)he will be "labelled" as irresponsible (or just plain wacky) by others if (s)he doesn't participate in vaccinating his/her children. This is something that the pro-vaccination campaigns know well, and they are very good at stimulating this natural human social anxiety. That peculiarity, the need to "fit in with the herd", has made trillions of dollars for those associated with the vaccination campaigns. It's really a very lucrative industry. Too bad it's not legitimate because I'd buy stock otherwise.

YES, the rich ones

United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends a Yellow Fever vaccination for all travelers aged 9 months and older to areas East of the Andes Mountains. Travelers limiting their destinations to Machu Picchu or Cuzco do not need the vaccine. The vaccine should be given 10 days prior to travel to the affected region, and it is good for 10 years.

No all health care is paid for by government. Citizens there have National Health. You don't pay for individual services,but indirectly thru taxes,but no is denied necessary care.This as told to me by English friend.

1 year

The CDC recommends two doses of chickenpox vaccine for those who don't have lab-demonstrated immunity, reliable history of chickenpox or shingles, or history of two vaccines.

Because if we didn't have catalyst in our body, we wouldn't be able to live because our body wouldn't be able to digest our food fast enough, which would mean the only things we could really eat were sugar and honey because they dissolve in our mouth, and their for we would die because a human body cannot possibly function without anything else then sugar and honey.

The government cannot make a vaccine voluntary (in the US, at least). It is impossible for them to be mandatory, so the question itself is a bit off. A person has the right to refuse medical treatment. For many, vaccination is a violation of their religion, and would infringe upon their rights to religious freedom.

Yes. A recent study has shown that Gardasil is 90% effective at preventing genital warts in males. Genital warts are caused by HPV (Human Papiloma Virus). Genital warts are responsible for most penile and rectal cancer, and by vaccinating against HPV, these men are protected from penile and rectal cancer caused by HPV. Giving the vaccine to men will also mean that they can not transmit HPV to their female partners. This would greatly reduce the risk of cervical cancer due to HPV infections in women. If all boys and girls were vaccinated for HPV, the HPV virus would be eliminated, causing rates of cervical, penile, and rectal cancer to drop by 80%. For the vaccine to be effective it must be given before an individual is exposed to HPV. This is why the vaccine should be given in childhood, usually between the ages of 9 and 14. The vaccine can also be given to people of any age, but it is most effective when given before the teenage years. At this point doctors can give the HPV vaccine Gardasil to boys as an off label use. The label for Gardasil should be updated by the summer of 2009 to indicate its use for prevention of HPV infection, genital warts, penile cancer, and rectal cancer in males.

Yes. A recent study has shown that Gardasil is 90% effective at preventing genital warts in males. Genital warts are caused by HPV (Human Papiloma Virus). Genital warts are responsible for most penile and rectal cancer, and by vaccinating against HPV, these men are protected from penile and rectal cancer caused by HPV. Giving the vaccine to men will also mean that they can not transmit HPV to their female partners. This would greatly reduce the risk of cervical cancer due to HPV infections in women. If all boys and girls were vaccinated for HPV, the HPV virus would be eliminated, causing rates of cervical, penile, and rectal cancer to drop by 80%. For the vaccine to be effective it must be given before an individual is exposed to HPV. This is why the vaccine should be given in childhood, usually between the ages of 9 and 14. However the vaccine can and should be given to men of any age, as it reduces the risk of getting HPV, genital warts, and penile and rectal cancers caused by HPV. At this point doctors can give the HPV vaccine Gardasil to males as an off label use. The label for Gardasil should be updated by the summer of 2009 to indicate its use for prevention of HPV infection, genital warts, penile cancer, and rectal cancer in males.

There is not a vaccination for the Black Death. The Black Death was a disease that occurred in the 1300s.

yes you do :)

Other countries may have diseases that your home country does not have, so even if you had vaccinations when you were a child, you may still need other vaccinations to travel safely to other countries.

A vaccine contain an inactivated virus ( a frequently situation), a preservative and an excipient.