Vaccine Benefits

What are Vaccines? 

"A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as foreign, destroy it, and "remember" it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters." 

Children vaccines protect diseases such as : 

Dipherthia 

Measles

Mumps 

Rubella

Influenza

Hepatitis B 

http://familydoctor.org/familydoctor/en/kids/vaccines/childhood-vaccines-what-they-are-and-why-your-child-needs-them.html 

Success Rates of Vaccination

"Widespread introduction of vaccine has resulted in a reduction of measles incidence from 894,134 cases in 1941 to 89 cases in 1998 and 44 cases in 2002."
 http://www.ecbt.org/advocates/immunizationsuccess.cfm

"The risk a child will have a severe reaction after the MMR or DTaP vaccines is less than 1 in 1,000,000.^34"

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"Vaccines prevent 20,500 infant deaths a year in the United States."

10 Vaccine Facts for Parents

www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/immunize/Documents/IMM-916.pdf

Vaccines for Children

"If an unvaccinated child is exposed to a disease germ, the child's body may not be strong enough to fight the disease."

"If fewer children in a community are immune, it is easier for a disease to spread and lead to outbreak. In fact, outbreaks of measles, mumps, and pertussis are occurring around the United States—often among groups of children whose parents chose not to get them vaccinated.⁹

 Visit http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/medical/immunization_chart.html to learn about recommended vaccines for children.