First, vaccines can protect you from all sorts of illnesses. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) when you receive a vaccine, the disease is injected into your body, but in a weakened state. Your body then forms antibodies to fight off the germ, which it does because the germ is weak. Your body now knows how to fight off this germ, so when your body is attacked by the disease, it will be ready. This effect is called immunity. Also …show more content…
But, according to the CDC, the risk of side effects occurring are extremely low (CDC.gov, p.1). And even if they do happen, they are usually not worse than the disease itself. Also, The Vaccine Book supports that if the side effects do occur, the most severe reactions are rare. Also, some are only temporary, such as the Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS), which is muscle weakening or paralysis (The Vaccine Book, Robert W. Sears, M.D.).
In order to prevent diseases, Vaccines should be administered to children under the age of six. First of all, they prevent children from catching diseases and illnesses; and second of all, vaccines can completely eradicate diseases. If vaccines continue to be administered, they will save millions of children from