Immunizations

• What Would Happen If We Stopped Vaccinations?

  • The following diseases would return to infect the U.S. population:
  • Polio
  • Measles
  • Pertussis

  The effects of these diseases are:

  • Hemophilus influenza-B meningitis - deafness, seizures, mental retardation and death.
  • Pertussis - death.
  • Congenital Rubella - heart defects, cataracts, mental retardation and deafness.
  • Hepatitis - life-long Hep B - death due to related liver disease.
  • Tetanus - kills 300,000 newborns and 30,000 birth mothers yearly who were not properly vaccinated.
  • Diphtheria - death rate is 5 percent to 10 percent, with higher death rates (up to 20 percent) in the very young.
  • Mumps - deafness in children, miscarriages among women who develop mumps during the first trimester of pregnancy.

 WEB LINKS AND RESOURCES   

• National Immunization Information Hotline:
  Call (800) 232-4636 (English); (800) 232-0233 (Espanol)
• Cleveland Department of Public Health:
  www.clevelandhealth.org/Health/ImmunizationClinics.html
• Center for Disease Control National Immunization Program:
  www.cdc.gov/vaccines/
• Children’s Schedule for Immunizations:
  www.cdc.gov/nip/recs/child-schedule.htm#Printable
• Immunization Coalition of Summit County:
  www.4ksvaccinate.org