Vaccination uses the body's natural defenses to build resistance to specific infections and strengthens the immune system. It involves introducing a preparation that resembles a disease-causing microbe into the body in order to stimulate antibody production without causing illness. Vaccines protect individuals by training the immune system to recognize and destroy pathogens, and they protect communities by reducing disease transmission when enough of the population is immune. Common vaccines prevent serious illnesses like chickenpox, hepatitis A, HPV, flu, measles, rubella, and tetanus.

1. WHAT IS VACCINATION ?
Vaccination is a simple, safe and effective way of protecting people against harmful diseases, before they come
into contact with them. It uses your body’s natural defenses to build resistance to specific infections and makes
your immune system stronger.
A vaccination is a preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. It is a biologically prepared
product which contains typical agents resembling the microorganism that causes a particular disease, made
from weakened or dead microbes. It helps in stimulation of the immune system and to identify the invaded
microbes as the foreign agent and destroy it so that the immune system can be reorganized and to destroy any
microorganism encountered later.

2. WHY IS VACCINATION IMPORTANT ?
Vaccination saves lives: Our immune systems are not developed fully and are prone to diseases. Vaccines
prevents those diseases and thus can safe our lives.
It saves money: Vaccine preventable diseases are serious and their treatment costs a lot. It is better to get
vaccinated before and prevent contracting these diseases rather than going through the painful hospital
process and bills later on.

3. Vaccines help in the long run: Our immune system becomes tougher and we do not get ill very easily.
This also continues in the long run. If not vaccinated, these diseases would effect us and these
diseases could have effects on our further development.
Protects others as well: If not vaccinated, we can get diseases like measles which can spread to our
siblings or to the older people in the family. This reoccurrence of diseases can lead to fatal
repercussions. Getting yourself vaccinated not only protects your family, but also helps prevent the
spread of these diseases.
Eradicates diseases: Vaccinations protect not only you but also others. If we continue vaccination,
there is a possibility that some of the diseases of today would no longer be seen in the future. These
diseases would get eradicated. Taking a vaccination not only protects you from a certain disease but
also protects the future population.
Prevents dreadful diseases: Vaccines prevent dreadful diseases like Polio which can lead to
deformities in the child. These diseases if not prevented can lead to paralysis, amputation of limbs,
hospitalization and also death.

4. HOW DO VACCINES WORK?
When a disease causing germ, virus or bacteria entres our body our immune system recognizes the germ as
being foreign.. Then it responds by making antibodies that help kill the germ. Most of the time, our
immune system can’t act fast enough to stop the germ from making you sick. But by destroying the germ, it
helps you get well. After this our immune system remembers the germ that made you sick and how to
destroy it. That way, if you are ever exposed to same disease germ in the future, your immune system can
quickly destroy it before it has a chance to make you sick. This protection is called immunity

5. Vaccines give you immunity to a disease without you getting sick first. When we get a vaccine, our immune
system responds to the vaccine the same way it would do to the real germ. Our immune system recognizes
the germ in the vaccine as a foreign being, responds by making antibodies to the germ in the vaccine just
as it would do to a real germ. Then, it remembers the germ and how it destroyed it. That way, if you are
ever exposed to the disease causing germ in the future, your immune system will be able to quickly destroy
it before it has a chance to make you sick. This is how vaccines work.

6. HOW DOES A VACCINE PROTECT INDIVIDUALS AND
COMMUNITIES?
Germs can travel quickly through a community and make a lot of people sick. If enough get sick, it can lead to
an outbreak. But when people are vaccinated against a certain disease, the germs can’t travel easily from one
person to another. Because of this, the entire community is less likely to get affected from the disease.
Through this, even the people who cannot get vaccinated will have some protection from getting sick..
Eventually, the disease becomes rare and sometimes even gets wiped out.

7. WHAT DISEASE DO VACCINES PREVENT?
Vaccines protect us from serious diseases. Vaccines are made for diseases that are serious and the diseases
that can even cause death.
Examples of the deadly diseases that have a vaccine:
Chickenpox, Hepatitis A, HPV, Flu, Measles, Rubella, Tetanus.

8. MY EXPERIENCE IN THE PROCESS OF
GETTING VACCINATED
I have been vaccinated for very single disease that my doctor suggested to my parents. I was given all the
doses of those vaccines. As I was a too young, almost a baby,, I don’t exactly remember how painful it was.
After looking at the children nowadays who get vaccinated and cry, I feel I must have felt the same pain. In
the making of this project, I asked my parents that how did I react while getting vaccinated. They said that I
sobbed a bit then I stopped.