Parents PACK

Vaccines offer parents some control of their children’s health!

Before vaccines, parents were scared of many childhood diseases. They would:

• Keep their children out of swimming pools and send them to the country for the summer in an attempt to prevent polio
• Take their children to chickenpox parties, hoping for milder cases when they were younger
• Intentionally expose them to rubella to ensure they were immune as children before they reached their own child-bearing years

These choices were considered necessary because it was the only way to protect their children from harm.

Today, parents can employ the power of vaccines to control their children’s exposure to polio, chickenpox, rubella and almost a dozen other ravaging infections of childhood.

The Parents PACK Program at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is here to help. Stay abreast of vaccine information and choose health for your family.