Immunizations
Immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases begins at birth when infants receive their first Hepatitis B vaccine and continues throughout an adult's lifetime. Vaccines have drastically decreased the number of vaccine-preventable diseases in the United States and worldwide. Small pox was the first vaccine-preventable disease eradicated and Polio is the next disease we hope to eradicate through vaccinations.
We still continue to have deaths from vaccine preventable diseases. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each year in the United States, there are 114,000 hospitalizations and 36,000 deaths from complications of the flu. Persons traveling to other countries also need immunizations to prevent them from acquiring vaccine- preventable diseases overseas.
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