A Sensible Way to Help You and Your Family Stay Healthy
Vaccines are a safe and effective way to protect you from harmful diseases caused by a virus or bacteria. Vaccines help your immune system fight disease. Your immune system is your body’s natural defense against disease.
Vaccines save lives! For hundreds of years, vaccines have prevented suffering and death from diseases like smallpox, polio, measles, meningitis, pneumonia, tetanus, and others. It is more dangerous to get a disease than it is to get the vaccine. Protect yourself and those around you by getting vaccinated.
Let’s Talk About Vaccines
“Vaccines are probably the most important scientific or medical discovery in the past 100 years.”
– Dr. Joseph Berg, Family Medicine
Vaccines are a safe and effective way to protect you from harmful diseases. It’s more dangerous to get some diseases than to get a vaccine. Vaccines save lives! Vaccines work by showing your body’s immune system how to fight that disease.
Which Vaccines Do You Need?
Vaccines work best when they are given to you at a specific age. Some vaccines are given to babies because they prevent a disease for their entire lifetime or prevent a disease that is common in children. Vaccines given to adults prevent diseases that are more common in older people. Some vaccines are offered every year because they need to be updated or boosted to help your immune system stay strong.
Children Birth to 18 Years
- Hepatitis B
- Rotavirus
- Diphtheria, tetanus & acellular pertussis (DTaP)
- Inactivated poliovirus
- Influenza (Flu)
- Pneumococcal
- Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
- Varicella
- Hepatitis A
- Human papillomavirus (HPV)
- Haemophilus influenzae B (Hib)
All Adults
- Flu
- Tetanus, diphtheria, acellular pertussis (Tdap)
- COVID-19 and boosters
Adults Ages 19-49
- Human papillomavirus (HPV)
- Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
- Hepatitis B
Adults Ages 50+
- Shingles
- Pneumococcal
- Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
*In addition to the vaccines mentioned above, other vaccines may be recommended for you based on certain risk factors including chronic health conditions, travel, lifestyle and/or your workplace.
What’s Next?
If you are ready to get your vaccines, please call your family doctor to schedule an appointment, or call 608-930-8000 and ask for the family medicine clinic closest to you.
If you have questions or concerns, please talk to a trusted healthcare provider. You will find qualified healthcare providers here:
