Prevention of diseases is the key to public health. Preventing a disease is always more effective and easier than treating it. Vaccines prevent and protect those who come in contact with un-vaccinated individuals.
Vaccines help prevent infectious diseases, and are life saving. Although vaccine preventable diseases are not so common in the United States, they are still prevalent in other parts of the world.
Remember that many infectious diseases are only a plane ride away, and infected traveler’s bring these infections back into the United States, this is why it is important to protect ourselves and our children by continuing to receive vaccinations.
Protect your health, if you are planning a trip and are not sure if you need vaccinations,
call us at (516) 626-2004.
In what seems a maddening array of contradictory information and various illnesses returning because parents are not vaccinating their children (rise of measles in UK again), it's good to see, and be reminded, that vaccines are a gift. The risks are outweighed by the gains.
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