
No one likes them, especially kids, but vaccinating your child is one of the best ways to keep them healthy. Regardless of what stories you might have heard, immunizations are safe-much safer than the chance of getting the disease they are preventing
Prior to 1963, the year the measles vaccine was introduced in Canada- 300, 000 Canadian children were struck by the disease that left one in a thousand dead every year, and another one in a thousand with brain damage. Now that number has dropped 99.9%
For those who have a phobia of needles there’s good news! Researchers are developing ways to make these vaccinations less uncomfortable, including no-needle vaccines and combination vaccines.