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Are You Immunized?


No one should be stricken with a Vaccine-Preventable Disease.
 

As you prepare for the upcoming Fall 2006 semester, take a few minutes to review and update your immunizations.  Although these vaccinations are not required to attend Lewis-Clark State College, your health is important !!!
(Some courses of study require immunizations)
 

Did you know that over a dozen Vaccine-Preventable Diseases can disrupt your college career?

Here is one example:  Measles is usually a benign childhood disease, but its complications can be serious and life threatening.  The risk of death, while low, is greater for adults than for children.  The continuing appearance of cases in young adults underlines the need to identify and immunize those who are unprotected.  College students who did not receive two doses of measles vaccine, the first at age 12 months and the second after 1980, need to be revaccinated.

  Did you know that college students are at risk for Vaccine-Preventable Diseases such as Meningococcal Meningitis and Hepatitis B?

These diseases have safe and effective vaccines.  Other well known childhood disease still creep up on college campuses such as chicken pox and mumps.

How are vaccines effective?

Traditionally, vaccines are preparations of weakened or killed infectious agents (bacteria, viruses) or their derivative products.  Modern technology has synthetically engineered most vaccines, increasing their safety.  Vaccines do not produce disease; rather, they stimulate an immune response:  the formation of antibodies against invading infectious agent or agents. 
 This process "immunization" confers protection against future infections caused by the same agent or agents used in making the vaccine.

IMMUNIZATIONS:

Annual Influenza "Flu" Shot 
Varicella
Hepatitis "A"
Hepatitis "B"
Menactra (Meningitis A, C, Y,
               W135 + Diphtheria)
Pneumonia Z3
Tetanus/Diphtheria
TB Mantoux (PPD)

For more information contact
STUDENT HEALTH
@ 208-792-2251
 

 


 

 



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