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

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Vanessa Weenink

Mary Nowlan and Emma Best
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A previously healthy and active nine-year-old boy required five days in hospital for pain and symptom management of varicella infection. He had over 1000 varicella lesions and high fevers, and he developed a severe, necrotising bullous infection

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 qu, Vaccines, Happily, the nine-year-old is fully recovered (with some scarring)