Monday, June 22, 2015

Blog 4: Ethical Issues in the News


http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2015/06/22/the-polio-vaccine-a-global-scourge-still

The Polio Vaccine: A Global Scourge Still Threatening Humanity

This article is from June 22nd.

This article makes me think that the pharmaceutical companies are not always right.  It is very hard for them to know if there will be any negative side effects years after a vaccine has been administered to someone.  Not all people handle medicines and vaccines the same exact way so how can these companies advertise and encourage people to get any vaccine without any harmful effects?  Do they really believe that it will work and it will not be risky to anyone?   The quote below is from the article link that I posted above. 

"It is a very dangerous assumption to believe that any new vaccine or drug to fight an infectious disease or life-threatening disease will be safe once released upon an uninformed public. The history of pharmaceutical science is largely a story of failures as well as successes. Numerous drugs over the decades have been approved and found more dangerous than the condition being targeted, but only after hundreds of thousands of people were turned into guinea pigs by the medical establishment."

I think that the pharmaceutical companies really need to focus on ensuring that there is enough information available to the people who are receiving the vaccines and make sure that it is not only one sided.

Nicole G.

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