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| Vaccine Basics |
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Importance of Vaccines |
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| Top 10 Reasons to Protect Children Through Vaccination |
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Parents want to do everything possible to make sure their children are healthy and protected from preventable diseases. Vaccination is the best way to do that. |
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Vaccination protects children from serious illness and complications of vaccine-preventable diseases which can include amputation of an arm or leg,
hospitalization, pneumonia, hearing
loss, convulsions, brain damage, and
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Vaccine-preventable diseases, such as measles,
whooping cough,
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influenza are still a threat. They continue to infect U.S. children, resulting in hospitalizations and deaths every year. |
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Though vaccination has led to a dramatic decline in the number of U.S. cases of several infectious diseases,
some, such as
measles, are quite common in other countries and are brought to the U.S. by international travelers. If children are not vaccinated, they could easily get one of these diseases from a traveler or while traveling themselves. |
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Outbreaks of preventable diseases occur when many parents decide not to vaccinate their children. |
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Vaccination is safe and effective. All vaccines undergo long and careful review by scientists, doctors, and the federal government to make sure they are safe. |
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Organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention all strongly support protecting children with recommended vaccinations. |
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Vaccination protects others you care about, including family members, friends, and grandparents. |
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If children aren’t vaccinated, they can spread disease to other children who are too young to be vaccinated or to people with weakened immune systems, such as transplant recipients and people with cancer. This could result in long-term complications and even death for these vulnerable people. |
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We all have a public health commitment to our communities to protect each other and each other’s children by vaccinating our own family members. |
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| Source: Immunization Action Coalition, Top Ten Reasons to Protect Your Child by Vaccinating |
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| Trusted Websites |
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Why Immunize Your Child? |
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Vaccine-preventable disease
information, what it does,
year vaccine available, and
why immunize for it, from
healthychildren.org, a
program of the American
Academy of Pediatrics |
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| Shot by Shot Website |
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| People share their stories of vaccine-preventable diseases online, from the California Immunization Coalition |
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Video Library |
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| Why Vaccines Work: As more and more parents are choosing not to vaccinate their children or are vaccinating them later, diseases like measles are making a comeback. Are vaccines safe? How do vaccines work? Why do some people claim there is a link between vaccines and autism? This week we look at why are people afraid of something that has saved so many lives, and look at the history and science of vaccines. |
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| >> view all vaccine basics videos |
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| Personal Testimonies |
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| Vaccines save lives - testimonies from moms, dads, doctors, nurses, grandparents, and friends |
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| Vaccines Work |
| CDC statistics demonstrate dramatic declines in vaccine-preventable diseases when compared with the pre-vaccine era |
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| Herd Immunity |
| Animation and text explain how vaccinated people help prevent the spread of infectious diseases |
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| This page was updated on February 13, 2023. |
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| This page was reviewed on February 13, 2023. |
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Immunize.org • 2136 Ford Parkway • Suite 5011 • Saint Paul, Minnesota • 55116 |
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tel 651-647-9009 • fax 651-647-9131 |
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Immunize.org (IAC), a non-profit organization, works to increase immunization rates and prevent disease by creating and distributing educational materials for health professionals and the public that enhance delivery of safe and effective immunization services. IAC also facilitates communication about the safety, efficacy, and use of vaccines within the broad immunization community of patients, parents, healthcare organizations, and government health agencies. |
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