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Answering Your Questions on Facts About Vaccines

Category: Facts About Vaccines

Immunity is the body’s way of protecting against and preventing disease. Children are born with an immune system composed of cells, glands, organs, and fluids located throughout the body…
To provide the best protection, some vaccines require an additional dose or doses as we get older…
Vaccines needed before travel depends on where you are going and what you will be doing. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a destination tool to find the vaccines and medications you need for your next trip. ..
Many types of products including cars, toys, and food products are sometimes recalled for short times or withdrawn permanently from the market because they don’t work properly or pose a safety risk. Although every vaccine goes through years of testing before being used, vaccines or vaccine lots (specific batches) can also be withdrawn or recalled…
If enough kids are not vaccinated, a disease can easily spread within their daycare, classroom, or community. If your child is medically able to get vaccinations, you can protect those that cannot: newborn babies, kids going through chemotherapy, and more…
Before a new vaccine is ever given to people, extensive lab testing is done that can take several years. Once testing in people begins, it can take several more years before clinical studies are complete and the vaccine is licensed…
Vaccines stimulate your body to produce immunity against a disease. Some use live viruses while others use inactive or killed viruses or bacteria. ..
Vitamin K is used by the body to form clots and to stop bleeding. Babies are born with very little vitamin K stored in their bodies. A vitamin K shot given at birth is the best way to prevent low levels of vitamin K and vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB)…
Pregnant women should get a flu shot and whooping cough vaccine (also called Tdap) during each pregnancy to help protect yourself and your baby…
There are two main ways to determine your disease immunity…

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