Is being naturally infected better than imunnized?
It’s true that natural infection almost always causes better immunity than vactination. However, only Hib, pnemococcal, and tetanus vaccines that are better at stirring immunity up than natural infection.
Then again, the price paid for vaccination–the inconvenience of shots and sore arm–is nothing compared to that for natural infection:
- paralysis from natural polio infection
- mental retardation from natural Hib infection
- liver failure from natural hepatitis B virus infection
- deafness from natural mumps infection
- pneumonia from natural varicella
So, what’s the waiting for? Chech out your baby’s immunization schedule now!
