Immunization should be mandatory at birth because early immunization protects the population from pandemic disease; therefore the AMA should require infants to be inoculated at birth. Immunizations were first given in the year of 1948. Edward Jenner is considered the first founder of the Vaccinology in the year of 1796. However, by the late 1940s, scientific knowledge had developed enough, so the large-scale vaccine production was possible and the disease control efforts could begin in earnest. The vaccine, everyone was waiting for in the year of 1950 was the polio vaccine. In the year of 1950 parents were scared of the polio epidemics that was occurring in the summer parents were too scared to let their kids go to swimming pools at times they would send them away with relatives in the country, so the polio wouldn't spread. In the late 1960s, vaccines were available to protect against mumps and rubella. The three vaccines were later combined into the MMR
According to the article “Five important reasons to vaccinate your child” they said “By vaccinating children against rubella (German measles), the risk that pregnant women will pass this virus on to their fetus or newborn has been dramatically decreased, and birth defects associated with that virus no longer are seen in the United States. If we continue vaccinating now, and vaccinating completely, parents in the future may be able to trust that some diseases of today will no longer be around to harm their children in the future.(p3)” If the vaccine continues everything is going to be at less risks and we wouldn't have to worry about diseases that can cause harm because the vaccine is there to help your child from diseases that can