What is your stance on vaccination? Do you believe that vaccination should be optional given its potential link to autism and other diseases; why or why not? Provide a brief (half-page) response. Also, provide at least one future recommendation for how you would tackle this issue from a more global health perspective. Solution Vaccines are biological preparations contains pathogrn8c material either active or killed, which when inoculated in persons body activates immune system by stimulating production of antibodies against that pathogen. Vaccines have been one of the remarkable breakthroughs in the biological world. Diseases which were once dreadful and life threatening have been wiped out. Small pox was the first diseases erad8cated from the world by vaccination. Nowadays efforts are going on to produce vaccine against AIDS and cancer. In the ancient times when vaccines were not designed, many of the diseases like small pox, polio, measles , chicken pox etc were very life threatening and in most of the cases childrens were at the receivibg end. We still can see how diseases like polio has hindered life of children in many under developed and developing nations due to non availability of vaccines. These days, where new pathogens and diseases causing agents are evilvung at a very rapid rate, it is highly important and mandatory for us to keep ourselves and our kids safe as much as we can and if vaccines have proved helpful in this safety measure we should opt it..