If You Choose Not to Vaccinate Your Child, Understand the Risks and Responsibilities

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• Corporate Authors:
  American Academy of Family Physicians ; American Academy of Pediatrics ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  If you choose to delay some vaccines or reject some vaccines entirely, there can be risks. Please follow these steps to protect your child, your family, and others. With the decision to delay or reject vaccines comes an important responsibility that could save your child’s life, or the life of someone else. Any time that your child is ill and you: call 911; ride in an ambulance; visit a hospital emergency room; or, visit your child’s doctor or any clinic, you must tell the medical staff that your child has not received all the vaccines recommended for his or her age. Keep a vaccination record easily accessible so that you can report exactly which vaccines your child has received, even when you are under stress.
• Subjects:
  Child Health Immunization Vaccination Vaccination Refusal Vaccines
• Series:
  Diseases and the Vaccines that Prevent Them
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/49075/cdc_49075_DS1.pdf
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