21 Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: While some of the Vaccine-Preventable Diseases are very dangerous, others are very common. [Take action now]

21 Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: While some of the Vaccine-Preventable Diseases are very dangerous, others are very common. [Take action now]

According to World Health Organisation (WHO), vaccination, is a simple, safe and effective way of protecting people against harmful diseases before they come into contact with them.

There more than twenty diseases, some of which are very dangerous, that can be prevented with vaccines.

Cervical cancer and hepatitis B are just two of such dangerous diseases that can be prevented with a vaccine. Get to know the twenty serious diseases that can be prevented with a vaccine now.

“vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body’s immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and to further recognize and destroy any of the microorganisms associated with that agent that it may encounter in the future,” according to wikipedia.org (vaccine)

Below are some of the Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

1. Cervical cancer

2. Cholera
3. Diphtheria
4. Ebola
5. Hepatitis B
6. Influenza
7. Japanese encephalitis
8. Measles
9. Meningitis
10. Mumps
11. Pertussis
12. Pneumonia
13. Polio
14. Rabies
15. Rotavirus
16. Rubella
17. Tetanus
18. Typhoid
19. Varicella
20. Yellow fever
21. Covid-19