immunization schedule

1. IMMUNIZATION

2. Introduction:
• Immunization is a global health and development success story,
saving millions of lives every year. Vaccines reduce risks of getting a
disease by working with your body’s natural defences to build
protection. When you get a vaccine, your immune system responds.
• We now have vaccines to prevent more than 20 life-threatening
diseases, helping people of all ages live longer, healthier lives.
Immunization currently prevents 3.5-5 million deaths every year from
diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, influenza and measles.
• Yet despite tremendous progress, vaccination coverage has plateaued
in recent years and dropped since 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic and
associated disruptions over the past two year have strained health
systems, with 25 million children missing out on vaccination in 2021,
6 million more than in 2019 and the highest number since 2009.

3. Vaccine:
•cervical cancer
•cholera
•COVID-19
•diphtheria
•hepatitis B
•influenza
•Japanese encephalitis
•malaria
•measles
•meningitis
•mumps
•pertussis
•pneumonia
•polio
•rabies
•rotavirus
•rubella
•tetanus
•typhoid
•varicella
•yellow fever
Vaccines train your immune system to create antibodies, just as it does when it’s exposed to a disease.
However, because vaccines contain only killed or weakened forms of germs like viruses or bacteria, they do not cause
the disease or put you at risk of its complications.
Vaccines protect against many different diseases, including:

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