• The effect of Vaccination exemption on early childhood may result in disease outbreaks
  • 27-Aug

    An estimated 6 million to 9 million lives worldwide, including the lives of nearly 3 million children are saved due to vaccination, a powerful tool that has helped public health interference and at a reasonable price. More than 95 percent of childhood diseases are prevented due to vaccination. It has indeed helped in minimizing or in some diseases eliminated the outbreaks of certain diseases that were once fatal to large number of people like measles and polio in the United States and smallpox worldwide. As the bacteria and viruses that spread the diseases still exist, the only way to get or prevent the outbreak is through vaccinations.

    Vaccination not only protects the individuals but bestows a broader protection for the communities. When sufficient high proportions of population are vaccinated against communicable diseases, the entire population can obtain protection.  With the increase in the number of vaccinated people the likelihood of contacting the disease even if they come across unvaccinated person commonly called as Herd Immunity will come down.

    Herd immunity applies to those who are more vulnerable to communicable disease, they are people who cannot be vaccinated either because they are too young or due to their immunological condition that makes vaccination too risky, or some just go off without vaccination due to religious or personal beliefs or in some cases, those who have been vaccinated but their immunological response is insufficient to protect them from potential infection.

    As children are vulnerable to certain diseases and vaccines help the body to develop disease immunity over time, many vaccines are therefore administered to children at a very young age as per the recommended immunization schedule.  Most of the children who do not go for vaccination fall under unvaccinated or under vaccinated. Unvaccinated children remain so mainly due to parental decisions.

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