Basics and Common Questions:
Immunization: The Basics
Introductory Immunization Information
- Why immunize?
- Brief overview of vaccine-preventable diseases and vaccines
- How vaccines prevent disease
- 10 things you need to know about immunizations
How many doses your child needs, diseases vaccines prevent, etc. - How immunity works: types of immunity
- Common questions
- What would happen if we stopped vaccinations?
- Life-cycle of immunizations
Tracks the evolution of a single disease, from a time when there was no vaccine to when the disease is eradicated.
Related Information and Materials
- ABCs
The ABCs of Childhood Vaccines is a slide series that explains in everyday words and concepts, major facts about childhood vaccines. - The Parents' Guide to Childhood Immunizations
68-page booklet introducing parents to the 13 childhood diseases and the 9 vaccines that can protect children from them - A Parent's Guide to Kids' Vaccines (exit)
4-page FDA guide explaining to parents the risks and benefits of common kids' vaccines - Additives in vaccines
- Report a suspected side effect (VAERS) (exit)
- Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
In the rare event that a vaccine injures a child, he or she may be compensated through the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). For more information about VICP visit www.hrsa.gov/vaccinecompensation/ (exit) or call 1-800-338-2382 - Where to get vaccinations (Vaccines for Children Program)
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This page last modified on August 22, 2007
Content last reviewed on May 24, 2007
Content Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Content last reviewed on May 24, 2007
Content Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases