We always hear on the news and in the papers about children catching diseases and sicknesses and often dying from them. Why is all of this happening when these diseases can be easily prevented? Parents can easily go and get their children immunized. Some parents think it is healthier for their children. Is it really that much safer for children to not get immunized and what about all the other children they are around? Immunizations should be given to children because, it is healthier, it is safer for other children, it helps to wipe out certain diseases.
In Australia in the last ten years more than 137 known people have died and many more fallen very ill from contagious and infectious disease."Chickenpox is actually responsible for the death of one child every week in this country, It causes more deaths than any other vaccine-preventable childhood disease because complications like strep infection are
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If you choose not to get your child immunized and they become sick with an infectious disease that was easily preventable, then it is your fault. Immunizations are given to keep diseases away and not immunizing your children can put them at risk to catch these diseases.Even though most diseases we vaccinate against are rare, they are still out there.
Immunizations are not just healthy for your children but are also healthy for the children around yours. A child's immune system is very vulnerable at a young age. Without immunizations your child and the children they are around are at more of a risk of catching a disease.
Immunizing your children can help to clear out diseases. Vaccinating your children helps them from catching certain diseases. In return, when children are protected from these diseases they eventually will disappear. It makes more sense to prevent these diseases rather than trying to cure them because then these diseases are still out in the