Question

With this whole debate over whether getting a child vaccinated or not, discuss why the anti-vaccination movement believe that vaccines are not safe and effective. Explain why the idea of getting vaccinated can lead to autism, as described by Andrew Wakefield. Is this true or false, explain your answer in essay format with cited sources.

Answer 1

Vaccines hesitancy is the term given by WHO for reluctants to get their kids vaccinated. It's been a hot topic in 2019 and arguments are heating up from day by day. According to them vaccines are ineffective and unsafe for their kids because it gives outbreak disease. But here is a fact no vaccine is fully effective. Even though it has been proven that vaccines helped a lot of kids out of infection, anti vaccine people came up with the argument that it's better hygiene that had helped them. The reason behind this hate is how actually vaccine works. For example smallpox vaccine works the way when blister of effected person is introduced in healthy ones. And that's why parents fear it.

Andrew Wakefield he's a former British doctor became anti vaccine activist and gave a theory about how vaccines are causing autism about the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

In 1998 he published his paper illustrating how children received MMR vaccine and ended up having autism. But that was denied after doing cross check that autism was in both vaccinated and unvaccinated kids. Later on in 2002 along with his co-workers he came up with measles virus causing autism. He did biopsy of intestine of measles affected children to see if autism checks out and around 85% of children were positive about autism but after some digging they denied that fact too. Because it was determined first if it was natural measels or vaccine ones and Wakefield didn't specified that.

Wakefield's licence stuck off when UK medical registered accused him of false and fraudent papers.