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Vaccines and Your Baby Video Series
In this video series, physicians at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia explain how vaccines work and how they are made. The video also describes several vaccines and the diseases they prevent. Families share their stories of children affected by vaccine-preventable diseases.
Videos in this Series
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Introduction: Vaccines and Your Baby - Before the Chickenpox Vaccine
- How Vaccinations Cause Immunity to Infectious Diseases
- What is a Virus in the Body?
- How the Chickenpox Vaccine Works
- Why the Hepatitis B Vaccine Is Important
- Why the Pneumococcal Vaccine Is Important
- How the Hib Vaccine Has Helped Alleviate Meningitis
- What the DTaP Vaccine Is and Diseases It Prevents
- The MMR Vaccine Prevents Three Viruses
- The Importance of the Polio Vaccine
- Do Vaccines Have Side Effects?
- How are Vaccines Tested for Safety?
- Can Babies Handle Vaccines So Young?
Transcript: Introduction: Vaccines and Your Baby
Paul A. Offit, MD: New parenthood can be an overwhelming time for a family. We're so focused on trying to do what's right for this little baby who's depending on us, and suddenly we're faced with all these complicated questions. Thanks to modern science, parents are required to make choices about the best ways to feed and shelter, clothe and transport their children. But today we're going to talk about one way that modern science has made childhood easier, more predictable, and less perilous than ever before--vaccines.
Our mission here at the Vaccine Education Center is to talk to parents about vaccines, how they work, how they're made, and how they've been proven to be safe and effective. Of course, that also means talking about the diseases that vaccines prevent. Now, some of these diseases are pretty rare in our part of the world, but others are still surprisingly common.
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