Benefits of Vaccines
From the research over the last decades, vaccines are highly beneficial to children to prevent infectious diseases. Vaccines, like medicines, are possible causes of medical problems. Most are mild and last for days. Getting vaccine-preventable diseases are much riskier than getting the vaccines.
Please read professional information for immunizations.
Please make right choice for your child to get immunizations.
If more and more children don’t get immunizations,
Outbreaks of vaccine prevented diseases will be expected.
And children will be the victim for the diseases.
Before the measles vaccine was available, almost all children got the disease.
It killed 120 people with a measles epidemic outbreak between 1989 and 1991.
There were 1.1 million deaths occurred worldwide from measles in 1995.
Our grandparents may still remember a polio virus hit 20,000 people in 1952.
This left a lot people dead, paralyzed, or crippled for life.
Pertussis (whooping cough) can cause complications such as trouble breathing, seizure, coma, and permanent brain damage in infants. Almost all of young children caught the disease before the vaccine was available in the later 1940s.
Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) and pneumococcal infection can cause deadly bacterial meningitis, and also pneumonia, blindness, and hearing loss. One in 200 children developed severe Hib disease by age 5 before the vaccine was available.
Hepatitis B can cause significant problems such as chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, liver failure, and liver cancers especially if we catch the disease before age 5. Hepatitis B can pass from one person to another through blood, body fluids, and breast milk. |
