Vaccines and the Diseases They Prevent
We all want to protect our children from getting sick. But it can be hard to keep track of all the different vaccines and the diseases they prevent.
Vaccines do such a great job of preventing illness that it’s easy to forget what life was like before vaccines. You might wonder what vaccine-preventable diseases look like and how easily they can spread.
Click on a disease below to learn about:
- The disease and the vaccine that protects against it
- How the disease is spread
- Symptoms and any long-term effects from infection
- How vaccination has helped lower disease rates
- Possible side effects of each vaccine