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Risks of Waiting to Immunize

• Newborns, babies, and toddlers can be exposed to deadly diseases, possibly without your knowledge.
• Their ability to fight off potentially deadly diseases is not fully developed.
• Most vaccine preventable diseases have high incidence and mortality rates among infants and toddlers.
• Children are the most vulnerable to disease and the least likely to have been previously exposed to infection.
• Lapsing immunization rates are often responsible for epidemics.
• Children who aren't immunized are more at risk for potential diseases than those that are.
• International visitors from countries that don't vaccinate or where vaccination isn't routine can re-introduce vaccine preventable illnesses to our population, putting your unvaccinated child at risk.