Vaccines & Preventable Diseases:
Vaccines: Unprotected Stories
Our Stories
Parents tell true story of how a vaccine-preventable disease sickened their child and impacted their family.
Parents want to do everything possible to keep their children from getting sick.
Here are 8 true stories:
- Chickenpox: Everyone Said Don’t Worry; Natural Immunity Is Better
- Flu Can Kill Healthy Children
- Hib: Gasping for Life
- Measles: 106 Degrees, A True Story
- Pertussis: A Preventable Tragedy
- Pneumococcal Disease: So Many Treatments
- Polio: Polio Pioneers
- Rotavirus: I Just Wish We Had Known
These true stories are recounted in the fact sheets series, Diseases & the Vaccines that Prevent Them. Each fact sheet tells of one infant and childhood disease, lists the disease symptoms, and briefly describes the benefits and risks of vaccination.
Stopping vaccine-preventable diseases – and saving lives in the process – must be a community-wide effort to vaccinate infants, children, adolescents, and adults. Also see
- Vaccines & Preventable Diseases
- Parents’ Guide to Childhood Immunizations
- Family Stories
Video stories from Parents of Kids with Infectious Diseases
(PKIDs)
- Victims of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Parent stories from Vaccinate Your Baby (Every Child By Two)
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Content last reviewed on November 4, 2010
Content Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases