children s health issues
Childhood Vaccinations
Vaccine Effectiveness
Vaccination is effective in preventing serious disease. Without vaccines, children are at risk of becoming seriously ill or even dying from diseases such as measles and whooping cough. Vaccines have been so effective that many health care professionals currently in practice have seen few or no cases of diseases that were once extremely common and often fatal (seeCDC: Diseases You Almost Forgot About Thanks to Vaccines). Vaccines have eliminated Smallpox and have nearly eliminated other infections, such as 