Immunization

Shots may hurt a little... but the diseases they can prevent can hurt a lot more! Immunization shots, or vaccinations, are essential. They protect against things like measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, polio, diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). Immunizations are important for adults as well as for children. Here's why.

Your immune system helps your body fight germs by producing substances to combat them. Once it does, the immune system "remembers" the germ and can fight it again. Vaccines contain germs that have been killed or weakened. When given to a healthy person, the vaccine triggers the immune system to respond and thus build immunity.

Before vaccines, people became immune only by actually getting a disease and surviving it. Immunizations are an easier and less risky way to become immune.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Immunity on Wikipedia

* In a medical sense, immunity (medical) is a state of having sufficient biological defenses to avoid infection, disease, or other unwanted biological invasion. * In a legal sense, immunity (legal) confers a status on a person or body that makes that person or body free from otherwise legal obligations such as, for example, liability for damages or punishment for criminal acts. Transactional immunity refers to the inability of the prosecutor to prosecute a witness in exchange for the witness's testimony, an action referred to as "turning state's evidence." Under use immunity, the government may not use a witness's grand jury testimony to prosecute that person. But if the state acquires evidence for a crime independent of the testimony, then the witness can be prosecuted. See also *Immune system   [ Read More ]

External Resources

Immune - Rock trio from Providence, Rhode Island. Biography, sound files, lyrics, and live dates.

Survivng: 16 Castaways 39 Days. The Ultimate Adventure Story - This is a site that contains a story about 16 castawyas that are stuck in a remote area for 39 days. Tribes will compete for Immunity so that they will not vote off their own members. A new episode is posted every three or four days. Who will be the ultimate to be Surviving?

Diplomatic Immunity - Review of this novel in the Miles Vorsokigan series.

Diplomatic Immunity - Review of Diplomatic Immunity (a Miles Vorkosigan novel) by Lois McMaster Bujold.

The Reality Board Game - Game of fact and fantasy, you become the winner by achieving immunity and landing on the golden throne space.

The Antibiotic Alternative - Cindy L. A. Jones' guide to fighting infection and maintaining a healthy immune system using herbs.

One Health Publishing - Holistic and alternative cancer treatment program integrates with conventional medicine, using guided imagery, nutrition, and journaling as tools known for being able to strengthen the immune system. Books and tapes.

Jeans Journals - Child's medical and immunization history from newborn to preschool.

The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions - Dr. Esther Sternberg, expert on neural-immune science and author, is a leading researcher exploring the connections between the areas of the brain that control immunity with those that generate feelings and thought.

Natural Immune System Diet - Selection of dietary advice based on the immune system.

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