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What is Vaccination?
Today, children in the United States routinely get vaccines that protect them from more than a dozen diseases such as measles, polio and tetanus. Most of these diseases are now at their lowest levels in history, thanks to years of immunization. Children must get at least some vaccines before they may attend school. Vaccines help make you immune to serious diseases without getting sick first. Without a vaccine, you must actually get a disease in order to become immune to the germ that causes it. Vaccines work best when they are given at certain ages. For example, children don't receive measles vaccine until they are at least one year old. If it is given earlier it might not work as well. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes a schedule for childhood vaccines.
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Also known as shots, Vaccinations, immunization, adult immunization, Active Immunization, Active Immunizations
Vaccination information from trusted sources:
CDC Smallpox Vaccine Overview
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Vaccine Information for the Public and Health Professionals
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Vaccine Information Statements - VISs - CDC information sheets for ...
Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) are CDC information sheets for patients and parents about vaccines. IAC provides VISs in more than 40 languages. Read more on
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Vaccination Resources
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Adult Immunization
Shots may hurt a little... but the diseases they can prevent can hurt a lot more! Immunization shots, or vaccinations, are essential. They protect against things like measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, polio, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). Immunizations are important for adults as well as for children. Here's why. Your immune system helps your body fight germs by producing substances to combat them. Once it does, the immune system "remembers" the germ and can fight it again. Vaccines contain germs that have been killed or weakened. When given to a healthy person, the vaccine triggers the immune system to respond and thus build immunity.
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Immunizations - general overview
Immunization (vaccination) is a way to trigger your immune system and prevent serious, life-threatening diseases.
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Cervical cancer vaccination
Since September 2008 there has been a national programme to vaccinate girls aged 12-13 against human papilloma virus (HPV).
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Influenza vaccination
If you think you need a seasonal flu vaccination (see Who should have it), check with your doctor, nurse or local pharmacist.
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Vaccination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vaccination is the administration of antigenic material (a vaccine) to stimulate adaptive immunity to a disease. Vaccines can prevent or ameliorate the ...
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Vaccines: HOME page for Vaccines and Immunizations site
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Vaccination | Flu.gov
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CDC H1N1 Flu | 2009 H1N1 Flu Vaccine
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Vaccinations | CDC Travelers' Health
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CDC - Seasonal Influenza (Flu) - Vaccination
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Preventing Seasonal Flu With Vaccination
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