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U.S with 136 cases associated deaths.
Because vaccines protect against
disease which one person passes on
to another, laws have been made to
protect gathering of people especially
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children in our schools. In order to attend public schools children have had
Health Service.
to have up-to-date immunizations. A
We know without a doubt that
The names of serious diseases like vaccines have reduced dramatically the recent vaccine for chicken pox has been
diphtheria, smallpox, polio, rubella,
around since 1995. From the rate of
number of infectious diseases along
whooping cough, and measles used to
4 million cases annually with 11,000
with the human suffering these disbe frightening words to hear in Amer- eases can cause. Yet history shows that hospitalizations and 145 deaths, the
ica due to the suffering these diseases
when there is low incidence of disease, rate of death in children ages 1 to 4
could cause. Now most of us don’t even the attention shifts from the proven
has decreased 66% since vaccinations
know the symptoms of these diseases
have become widespread according to
benefits of vaccines to the risks.
or anyone who has suffered with one
the “Westview Corp. officers immuniAlthough vaccines are among the
of these potentially life-threatening
zation clinic” article in the LaGrange
safest drug interventions available,
diseases. Vaccinations are the reason
Standard.
with only a very small percentage of
we are not afraid for ourselves or our
Recently it was made public that
those immunized having serious side
children.
Westview schools will be forced to exeffects, there is a push in some areas
Prior to the 1950’s, hundreds of
clude non-immunized students or staff
today from well meaning people to
thousands of people came down yearly stop giving children vaccinations
from attending school for a time, if the
with measles, mumps, diphtheria, and because of the potential risk. Unfortu- local Health Department determines
pertussis. Tens of thousands developed nately, these infectious diseases have
there is an outbreak of chicken pox
smallpox, rubella, and polio. After
not gone away, so when the vaccination in the district. It is a choice to receive
almost sixty years of vaccinations, in
rate lowers as it did in 1989, the occur- vaccines for ourselves or our children.
2008, there were actually zero cases
rence of a disease like measles increas- Knowing the facts will help you protect
of diphtheria, smallpox, and polio in
es as it did then to 55,000 cases in the your family’s health.
the U.S. The other disease incidence
had been reduced by 93% to 99.9%, all
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because of vaccinations.
The use of widespread vaccines
have unquestionably saved untold
amounts of human suffering, human
life and direct medical costs to society,
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protecting those we love from some
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of the most debilitating and deadly
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