About Vaccines: Separating Myths From Facts
Vaccines are among the most effective disease-prevention methods, but what happens when the information we receive about them is inaccurate? For many parents and caregivers, questions about vaccines are not unusual. Are vaccines truly safe? Can a child receive too many at once? Are all those stories we hear actually true? With so much information and misinformation, knowing what to actually believe becomes a stressful task. So let us help separate the myths from actual evidence. Myth 1: Vaccines cause the diseases they're supposed to prevent This claim is not true, and to understand why it is false, let us take a look at how vaccines actually work. Vaccines work by training the immune system to recognize and respond to a particular infection. They use killed or weakened forms of germs, or parts of them, to create protection without causing the disease and its complications. Think of it like a rehearsal, your immune system gets to learn what the threat looks like before...
