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It is important that your child be vaccinated against major childhood illnesses. Diseases such as polio, rubella and measles have been all but eradicated due to the present vaccine schedule for children.

For sometime there has been some debate concerning childhood vaccinations because if the side effects that occur. Not all children experience the side effects, however a small percent do have very minor side effects once they have received a vaccination.

The side effects are well worth it, because the actual disease is worse by far if the immunization is not received. It is recommended by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that all children receive vaccines against these diseases. Below we will go over the standard of the present childhood vaccine schedule.

The standard vaccine schedule does offer alternatives to parents when it comes to HPV, varicella vaccinations, meningitis and how the MMR vaccine will be given.

When a child is born they are given their first Hepatitis B (HepB) vaccines. This is an airborne disease as well as blood born and it is extremely contagious, which is why the school systems require this immunization.

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