What is Vaccination?
Vaccination describes the process of giving a small amount of a virus to a healthy person. The vaccine produces lasting immunity and often prevents the person from getting sick with that type of virus. This way, when people who are not vaccinated come in contact with this type of virus, they cannot get sick and spread it to others. Here are some benefits of vaccination:
1. It protects children against getting infections that can cause serious problems.
When children are vaccinated, they get protection against serious diseases before they get sick. This can protect them from having brain damage or dying from a disease such as measles, whooping cough, polio, or Hepatitis A.
2. It protects pregnant women and their babies.
When vaccination is given in the first months of pregnancy, there is less chance for the baby to get an infection that can cause serious problems later in life. The baby will also be protected against some type of disease.
3. It protects people from getting more serious infections.
If a person is vaccinated, there is less chance that the virus will spread to other people, and this makes it much less likely that they will get very sick with a serious infection and die. This prevents the spread of these infections to others.
4. It protects people from getting diseases in some cases.
Vaccination protects people from diseases in some cases, but not all the time. The viruses that are used to make the vaccines come from a variety of sources. Sometimes, people get the diseases they are protected against because they got a less serious form of the disease.
5. It protects people from other infections.
In some cases, people get an infection two or more times after vaccination. Vaccination does not always prevent these infections, but it does make it much less likely that you will get sick with one of them again in the future.
Vaccinations are an important part of protecting the health of children. When people get the vaccinations that they need, it protects them and the people around them from getting serious diseases. It is very important that you get your children vaccinated so that they can grow up healthy and strong. It is also important to keep up with your own vaccines as an adult, depending on your age and medical history.
