Ban vaccines

To begin my argument, I like to first Rebuttal some points about my opponents argument of why vaccines shouldn't be banned. I. Life of humans is far superior than animalsII. Vaccine Industry Economic BenefitsIII. Vaccines help humansI Life of humans is far superior than animalsIn my opponents opening argument of section I, he argues that animals, specifically chickens, suffer pain. Can they? I will agree that they can suffer pain, but my opponent fails to show on how this relates to vaccines. It doesn't because quoted by his sources ""Domestic chickens display signs of empathy, the ability to 'feel another's pain' that is at the heart of compassion, a study has found". How does this relate to the usage of vaccines? However, he later on provides the reason on how this relates to vaccinations where my opponent claims that chickens suffer from vaccinations. In reality, they don't knowing from personal eperience as well facts to support my claim that chickens don't suffer from vaccinations. According to "The Chicken Vet" (1) "Vaccination is commonly used in commercial poultry and increasingly in backyard birds to control disease. Vaccines mimic natural infection, allowing the birds to build up immunity to the disease without any of the harmful effects. This way you can prevent your birds getting the disease". Without this vaccination, flocks of chickens would die and recieve diseases which is much worse than a simple shot. As well as that disease can potentially spread putting humans lives at risk. Possible diseases that can potentially spread if not vaccinated include: Pox, Avian Flu, and so much more (2).Then my opponent argues that any animal suffers from vaccinations. This is false for many reasons because animals actually benefit from vaccinations than what my opponent claims. I ask my opponent how do animals suffer? If the suffering is by giving them an injection, then that isn't truly suffering. Suffering would be long term effect of negativity, and animals do not feel that pain for that long. According to "National Office of Animal Health" (3), "Vaccination also reduces the amount of pharmaceutical treatments (such as antibiotics) used to control established diseases and, in many instances, has prevented long term suffering and death". They protect the animals from multiple diseases (3), and without that vaccination they would suffer more than just taking a simple shot. Like this graph (4): In the graph, it is seen that animals become more immune to these diseases with a vaccination, than not recieving one at all.Also, the percentage of animals with one of the common diseases rabies. "In the U.S., rabies represents a serious threat to the health of people and animals. Every year, it is estimated that 40,000 persons receive a rabies prevention treatment called post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) due to a potential exposure to rabies" (5). The solution, vaccinate your animals in order to help them live longer as well as protect your own family.II Vaccine Industry Economic BenefitsNot only do vaccinations promote safety in health for children and adults, vaccinations also support the economy. According to World Health Organization (WHO) (6), it states: "The potential benefits of expanded vaccine coverage are evident among the following five emerging economies: Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa – often referred to as BRICS. These countries have seen high economic growth in recent years – expanding their capacity to produce, procure and provide health care". As well as the market for vaccinations is about at the same rate as the marijuana tax revenue given in the chart (7): As it is seen, the market is growing for this and if we deny it, it will end in tragedy.In my opponents argument for Section III, he quotes that if vaccines are no longer demanded animal suffering would drop. Where is your evidence on that? There is no evidence that he provided, and neglects the fact on how much money is made for vaccination use. And in my opponents argument for Section IV, he argues that people have endured a long time without vaccines. I will agree that this is true, however we shouldn't ban vaccines just because theres a potential that they are immune. There are certain diseases still existing today, and the only way to help cure them are vaccinations. One example is polio, "By 2002, the incurable and deadly disease of polio had also been eradicated from much of the world. This included the UK, the rest of Europe, the western Pacific and the Americans because of vaccinations" (8). If we eliminate vaccinations right now, certain diseases may never be found with a solution. In fact, vaccinations is the core of a lot of cures for diseases, and is the best way to study these diseases (9).III Vaccines help humansThis is an obvious argument, but is the most reasonable one of why vaccinations shouldn't be banned. Vaccinations help humans, and has healed many people. The percentage of death with a vaccination is only a 1% chance (10). That is pretty low, and actually has more benefits than consequences. In my 11th source, it can be checked out on all the benefits for vaccinations (11). And to conclude my opening argument, I like to point out one common miconception of vaccine usage. My opponent claims that vaccines cause autism. This is factually wrong because according to doctor Neal Hasley (12): "'The evidence is overwhelming,' he said. The Institute of Medicine has investigated and repeatedly said it's not true. A special federal court, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, ruled against three families in 2009 who claimed vaccines caused their children's autism, saying they had been 'misled by physicians who are guilty … of gross medical misjudgment'. Sources:1. http://www.chickenvet.co.uk...2. http://www.raising-chickens.org...3. http://www.noah.co.uk...4. http://www.peteducation.com...5. http://www.cdc.gov...6. http://www.who.int...7. http://www.ifpma.org...8. http://www.nhs.uk...9. https://www.quora.com...10. http://www.nvic.org...11. http://www.cdc.gov...12. http://www.nbcnews.com...