Vaccines are drugs of capital importance for everyone's health, as they avoid a very large number of diseases and epidemics. Vaccination represents one of the greatest successes of public health: according to the World Health Organization ( WHO ), 2 to 3 million lives are saved each year thanks to this simple act of prevention. Several million people are vaccinated each year in France. Thanks to vaccination, smallpox has disappeared in the world and polio has disappeared from France.
To be vaccinated while respecting the calendar of vaccinations is the most effective means of prevention today to combat certain serious infectious diseases, difficult to treat and/or at risk of complications and sequelae, such as tetanus, mumps, darling, meningitis and meningococcal seps and many others ... The usefulness of a vaccine is to protect themselves and protect yourself from others, In particular the most fragile people around him: newborns, pregnant women, people suffering from a condition contraindicating vaccination, elderly, etc. This is particularly the case for darling vaccines and measles which provide protection of infants while waiting for them to be vaccinated.
Many diseases that have disappeared in France or that have become very rare continue to exist in other regions of the world, where vaccination is not sufficiently implemented. If the vaccination was stopped in France, these diseases would return. For example, deaths by diphtheria from two non -vaccinated children, one in Spain in 2015, the other in Belgium in 2016, or the occurrence of a case of tetanus in a French child, confirm the need to maintain high vaccination coverage even for diseases that vaccination has made "disappear" on our territory. It is the same for measles; Since 2010, more than 20,000 cases related to insufficient vaccination coverage has been declared in France when this disease had become rare before.
Vaccination has made it possible to reduce a large number of epidemics and even to eradicate smallpox in the world. Not all diseases have disappeared (tetanus, measles, tuberculosis etc.) , so it remains important to be vaccinated.
