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With so many diseases in the world, something needed to be created to protect people from getting sick and even dying. This is where vaccines came in. Vaccines immunize and protect people from diseases such as measles, rubella and polio.
With so many diseases in the world, something needed to be created to protect people from getting sick and even dying. This is where vaccines came in. Vaccines immunize and protect people from diseases such as measles, rubella and polio.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), vaccines help develop immunity by imitating an infection by a disease, causing the immune system to develop the same response as it does to a real disease. This allows the body to recognize and fight the vaccine-preventable disease in the future if a person comes into contact with it.
Because the vaccine is weaker than a real disease, being vaccinated is a safe method for fighting diseases through prevention. For instance, immunizing a child against measles will not give the child measles, yet he or she will be protected against the disease in the future.
The best news: Vaccines work! Childhood vaccines produce immunity about 90 to 100 percent of the time, according to the CDC. And, whenever a vaccine is developed and approved as safe to use, the number of cases of that disease begins to drop immediately.
This video from Immunize for Good demonstrates how vaccines work:
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