Over the last century, contagious diseases such as measles, meningococcal disease, and smallpox have almost been completely done away with due to the widespread use of vaccines. However today these type of infections are roaring back to life, not as a result of medical failure but due to deliberate neglect of using vaccines to stop them.
It is therefore recommendable that institutions particularly colleges and universities where there is high exposure to the risk of getting infectious diseases tighten vaccination requirements. Allowing exemptions of vaccinations and immunizations may appear to be a rational compromise between public health, personal freedom, and civil rights while else, in reality, it unfairly places the whole community at risk without a noble cause.
In order to wipe out these diseases that are preventable and protect the health of the vulnerable population as well, initiatives to tightening vaccination requirements should be put in place. When cases of vaccinations exemptions are present, the specific individuals put the entire population at risk of acquiring the infection. When a significant proportion of a community gets vaccinated, it creases herd immunity which protects even the persons without the developed immunity. The few who are either ill or are unwilling to get vaccinated nevertheless get the protection since the widespread vaccination drops off the infectious agent’s reservoir.
Based on scientific research, widespread vaccination has virtually eradicated major infectious diseases that remain harmful in other countries. There is no sense of people avoiding procedures that are strongly beneficial for fear of side effects that are not even scientifically proven.it is therefore essential that the not only the learning institutions but other organizations take the initiative of vaccinations and other restrictive measures to protect the health of the public in general.