Complications of vaccine-preventable diseases: The top five reasons to immunise

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Complications of vaccine-preventable diseases: The top five reasons to immunise

Contributing writer

Mary Nowlan and Emma Best

Boy with measles

As we are seeing with the current measles outbreak, it is important to maintain a high level of immunity within the population to reduce the burden of infectious disease, and vaccines can do just that

Without knowledge of how serious vaccine-preventable diseases can be, some parents believe these diseases to be rites of passage in childhood and ques