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Vaccines
Vaccines are an important way of protecting the body against contracting serious diseases and passing them to others. While new vaccines are under development to combat current diseases such as Covid-19, there are at least 25 vaccines in use to combats diseases that have ravaged populations in the past. Family Medicine Headquarters will make sure you are properly vaccinated.
What Are Vaccinations?
During immunization, your doctor injects a biological preparation that includes weakened or killed microorganisms of the disease along with a stimulant that forces your body’s immune system into action. The vaccination destroys the organisms of the disease and rejects them in the future. When large numbers of people get vaccinations, a “herd immunity” develops so that specific diseases become less of threat to society. This is why diseases once fatal for many people, such as measles, mumps, chicken fox, smallpox, and polio, are under control so long as people continue to be vaccinated.
The administration of vaccines start in early childhood and continue throughout adulthood as some vaccine require a series of shots or repeat dosages throughout life to retain immunity. Family Medicine Headquarters will get your children started on a proper course of vaccination and administer other vaccinations that need to be renewed throughout adulthood.
Common Vaccinations
Those administered in childhood include:
- Chickenpox
- Diphtheria
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hib
- Influenza
- Measles
- Meningococcal disease
- Mumps
- Pertussis
- Pneumonia
- Polio
- Rotavirus
- Rubella
- Tetanus
We may combine some vaccines to reduce the number of shots and encourage parents to get their children vaccinated on schedule – a necessity before they can be admitted to most daycares, pre-schools, and schools.
Other vaccine that are important to receive and continue include:
- Human papillomavirus vaccine, given to pre-teens to prevent certain common sexual diseases
- Periodic vaccinations for adults for measles, tetanus, influenza, and pneumonia
- Rubella vaccinations for pregnant women for rubella.
When you are planning on travelling outside the country, we can provide required vaccinations that may be required to ward against local outbreaks of
- Anthrax
- Cholera
- Hepatitis A & B Combination Vaccine.
- Japanese Encephalitis
- Polio
- Rabies (pre- and post-exposure)
- Typhoid
- Yellow Fever
For older adults, we particularly encourage vaccinations against:
- Pneumonia and influenzas (flu), as these diseases are particularly deadly among this age group
- Shingles, a disease caused by the chickenpox virus
Currently, vaccines against Covid-10 are under development. Once they are deemed safe and are available to the publish, you can visit FMHQ to protect yourself against this potentially deadly virus.
