Why should you immunize babies?

Answer 1

to prevent them from diseases as they grow up.

Answer:

Let's examine some of the diseases (and their potential outcomes) that you might immunize a child against:

• Polio: Potential outcome death
• Tetanus: Potential outcome death
• Whooping cough: Potential outcome death
• Diphtheria Potential outcome heart and nerve damage and death
• Measles: Potential outcome death

The common thread is that children who are not vaccinated are at greater risk of contracting these diseases. Children who contract these diseases are at a higher risk of dying.

Also the more people who are immunised againnst a disease the smaller the pool of people available for transmission. This makes everyone safer in what is known as herd immunity by reducing likelihood of transmission and opportunity for the virus to mutate. Some viruses have been wiped out by this method.