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Kids need vaccinations because they can get serious diseases from infections that make them very sick, and the shots protect a person from getting those diseases Shots protect you by giving only a tiny piece of a disease-causing germ, or by giving you a version of the germ that is dead or very weak. Giving only this tiny, weakened, or dead part of the germ does not give you the disease. Instead, just the opposite happens. Your body ends up being protected from the disease by becoming immune. After you get a shot, your body creates antibodies that can fight off that particular disease. Because most kids get all their shots, you rarely meet anyone who has had diseases like measles, mumps, or polio. These are diseases that used to make many people very sick. Today, some diseases no longer exist just because everyone got their shots!
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