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Why vaccinate your child

Vaccinations are one of the greatest achievements of medicine and were considered the discovery that, throughout human history, has brought benefits second only to those derived from drinking water. Childhood vaccinations are very important because they represent the first action brought prior to your child, to eliminate the risk of dangerous infectious diseases. Vaccinate children means being part of an action brought in the world by the World Health Organization. The ultimate goal of vaccination is to be able to decrease the incidence of very serious diseases or even to make them disappear (smallpox, a terrible disease and now forgotten, nor the most concrete example). The human body protects itself against infectious disease by producing antibodies, substances that neutralize the "infectious agents" is what happens "naturally" when one is struck for the first time an infectious disease. The principle on which is based vaccination is to induce the production of antibodies agains...