Understanding how vaccines work

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• Corporate Authors:
  American Academy of Family Physicians. ; American Academy of Pediatrics. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Diseases that vaccines prevent can be dangerous, or even deadly. Vaccines greatly reduce the risk of infection by working with the body’s natural defenses to safely develop immunity to disease. This fact sheet explains how the body fights infection and how vaccines work to protect people by producing immunity.
  
  Adapted from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Understanding Vaccines http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/vaccines/
  
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• Subjects:
  Vaccination Vaccines
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d2d692fe1821ab33c971d1a2e5e80f4d2229b6968f17adc494f0a54affde0245
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/44482/cdc_44482_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 150.16 KB ]