You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.
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You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.
You can't save kids just with vaccines.
Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.
In some areas, immunity has been eroded so much that the child who's not vaccinated is now actually more vulnerable to the complications of infectious diseases.
It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.
New vaccines are being developed all the time, which could save many more lives and dramatically improve people's health. And this goes beyond the traditional burden of childhood infectious diseases.
Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do.
States should require vaccinations for communicable diseases, like measles and the mumps. But you can't catch HPV if an infected schoolmate coughs on you or shares your juice box at lunch. Whether or not girls get vaccinated against HPV is a decision for parents and physicians, not state governments.
We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
Vaccinations absolutely work, and have dramatically decreased rates of childhood diseases.