The benefits of vaccination outweigh the harm

I notice there are some people on here who do not offer worthwhile arguments. The first thing that stood to me as odd about your argument, was the number of deaths caused by aids seemed too high and the number of lives saved by vaccines seemed too low. When I looked into your sources, I noticed that the one for the number of lives saved by vaccines is talking about the US only, while the one that is talking about the number of lives killed by aids is talking about the world as a whole. You must keep in mind that AIDS is far worse in Africa than in the United States, it was the Hepatitis B vaccine that brought it to the US, that is true, but the way you're arguing makes it sound like the Hepatitis B vaccine is responsible for those 35 million deaths when it's in fact not. It would be responsible for a much smaller amount of deaths. Since you did bring up the amount of deaths from HIV/AIDS worldwide, and not the deaths reported in the United States I thought it appropriate to share the diagnoses of aids in the US. "Since the epidemic began in the early 1980s, an estimated 1,210,835 people have been diagnosed with AIDS. "[1] I would like to point out that scientists "believe that the chimpanzee version of the immunodeficiency virus (called simian immunodeficiency virus or SIV) most likely was transmitted to humans and mutated into HIV when humans hunted these chimpanzees for meat and came into contact with their infected blood. " Therefore, the Hepatitis B vaccination experiments can only be blamed for 1.2 million cases of Aids in the US, and not the 35 million my opponent is trying to argue for, as the millions of other cases of aids was likely caused by the contact with Chimp blood in Africa. The Hepatitis vaccine likely only brought aids to America, while aids existed among humans already before that in Africa and elsewhere. Now, I'd like to point out that the reason vaccines have such a small amount of impact within the United States is because we have such an advanced medical system in comparison to majority of the world. Notice that your third source says "The CDC estimates that vaccinations will prevent more than 21 million hospitalizations. .. " in other countries millions of those hospitalizations would translate to deaths because their healthcare system is not as good as the United States'. Let's look at how many deaths are prevented by vaccines around the world, rather than just the United States. It is estimated that the measles vaccination alone has saved 17.1 million lives around the world. [3] And all vaccinations save "Approximately 2.5 million lives per year"[4] Or in other words, in 10 years, 25 million people worldwide will have their lives saved by vaccination. To conclude, the aids breakout from the hepatitis B experiments in the 1980s in the United States has only caused 1.2 million new people to be infected by HIV. However, worldwide, "chronic Hepatitis B affects approximately 240 million people and contributes to an estimated 786,000 deaths worldwide each year. "[5] Therefore the development of a Hepatitis B vaccine can potentially save an additional 786,000 people each year, and does save an unknown amount of people each year(I can't seem to find a source on the amount of people actually saved by the hepatitis B vaccination). Therefore, the risk caused by the hepatitis B vaccine did not outweigh the potential benefits of the vaccine itself, and vaccines in the world greatly benefit all of us by preventing more than 2 million people dying each year. Sources [1] . http://www.cdc.gov... [2] . http://www.theaidsinstitute.org... [3] . http://www.who.int... [4] . http://www.action.org... [5] . http://www.cdc.gov...