1. The Importance of Immunization By: Misty Moser ADNS and Cynthia Hill ADNS

2. What is a Vaccine? A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases (Merriam-Webster)

3. Basically, a vaccine is a substance used to prevent the spread of disease, usually using a killed or weakened form of the disease.

6. Credit: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/images/photo_howdoimwork.jpg

8. Safety of Vaccination Risk vs Benefit

10. Herd Immunity “ When a critical portion of a community is immunized against a contagious disease, most members of the community are protected against that disease because there is little opportunity for an outbreak.” - NIAID

11. Credit: NIAID http://www.niaid.nih.gov/SiteCollectionImages/topics/communityImmunityGeneric.gif Healthy, unimmunized Healthy, immunized Unimmunized, Sick and contagious

13. Controversy It is true vaccines are not 100% effective...

14. Mumps out break in NY and NJ in 2009 77% of those who contracted it were immunized!!!

19. Why Get Vaccinated? The Importance of Immunization

21. http://www.helpfulhealthtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Measles.jpg http://www.helpfulhealthtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Mumps-1.jpg http://www.helpfulhealthtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Rubella.jpg http://www.helpfulhealthtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Mumps-Causes.jpg Measles Mumps Rubella (German Measles

22. Chicken Pox Diptheria Tetanus Whooping cough http://www.helpfulhealthtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Chickenpox.jpg http://www.vaccineinformation.org/photos/pertiac001b.jpg http://www.vaccineinformation.org/photos/diphcdc003a.jpg http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media/images/1314.jpg

23. http://www.vaccineinformation.org/photos/hepaiac001a.jpg http://www.vaccineinformation.org/photos/hepbiac001a.jpg Hepatitis A Liver cancer caused by Hepatitis B

24. http://www.vaccineinformation.org/photos/poliiac002.jpg http://www.duke.edu/~ema5/Golian/Slides/3/gastrointestinal5_files/Gi230.jpg http://www.vaccineinformation.org/photos/pneuaap001.jpg http://www.aap.org/immunization/illnesses/photos/174.jpg http://www.aap.org/immunization/illnesses/photos/182.jpg Polio Rotavirus Pneumoccocal HiB

27. More Information http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/10-shouldknow.htm http://www.immunize.org/vaccines/

28. Sources: http://health.msn.com/health-topics/vaccination-guide.aspx http://pediatrics.about.com/od/immunizations/a/05_vac_imprtnce.htm http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/howvpd.htm http://health.msn.com/health-topics/vaccination-guide-diphtheria.aspx http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/side-effects.htm http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/autism/vaccines-autism1.htm http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/schedules/default.htm http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/vaccines/understanding/pages/vaccinebenefits.aspx