August is National Immunization Awareness Month. This is the perfect time to highlight the importance of getting recommended vaccines throughout your life.
Vaccines are safe and effective at preventing many serious diseases. There are some of the best tools we must protect our health and the health of our family and friends. Routine immunizations are still essential. Through immunization, a vaccine is introduced to stimulate a person’s immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease.
National Immunization Awareness Month will urge greater engagement around immunization globally to promote the importance of vaccination in bringing people together, and improving the health and wellbeing of everyone, everywhere throughout life. The CDC recommends an immunization schedule for children and adults to keep the general population healthy. Vaccines are indeed crucial. You have the power to protect your children against serious diseases like measles, cancers caused by HPV, and whooping cough. Preteens and teens need four vaccines to protect against serious diseases: meningococcal conjugate vaccine to protect against meningitis and bloodstream infections; HPV vaccine to protect against cancers caused by HPV; Tdap vaccine to protect against tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough; and a yearly flu vaccine to protect against seasonal flu.
While the world focuses on critically important new vaccines to protect against COVID-19, there remains a need to ensure routine vaccinations are not missed. Many children have not been vaccinated during the global pandemic, leaving them at risk of serious diseases like measles and polio. Rapidly circulating misinformation around the topic of vaccination adds to this threat.
Facts About Vaccines
Vaccines prevent more than 2.5 million deaths each year
A vaccine stimulates our immune system to produce antibodies which help defend against diseases
Most vaccines are 100 percent covered under your health plan
Are you and your family up to date on your vaccinations? Vaccines not only prevent illness, but they can also give you a better quality of life. Staying up to date with all necessary vaccinations is a great way to prevent and stop the spread of illnesses. From the seasonal flu shots to vaccines fighting diseases like measles and polio to the Covid-19 vaccines, you have the power to protect your community!
Learn more about the specific diseases you or your children may encounter and how vaccinations can help you be immune to those viruses. For more information, please call AMA Medical Center at (781) 581-6181 or contact us online. Schedule your consultation with the best doctors in Lynn, MA!
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