General Vaccine Information

Your Child's Immunizations
Easy-to-understand guide on your child's immune system and vaccinations with linked guide to recommended immunization schedule, related articles and resources.

Why Vaccinate?
The National Network for Immunization Information gives in-depth, easy-to-understand explanations about vaccine effectiveness, vaccine history and achievement, how vaccines work, how vaccines are selected and monitoring vaccine safety.

Facts and Myths About Immunizations
Common misconceptions about immunization in clear Q & A format.

Six common misconceptions about vaccination and how to respond to them
Practitioner's guide to answering parental concerns based on the common misunderstandings about immunization.

NIH Brochure: Understanding Vaccines
Thorough report on immunization: the history of immunization, the immune system, vaccinations (types, development and testing) and the future of vaccinations.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) review of What Would Happen If We Stopped Immunizations
Factual data on the effects of infectious disease and potential consequences of discontinuing vaccination.

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) : Recommendations on Immunization:
A technical and comprehensive overview covering various aspects of immunology for the medical practitioner or medically knowledgeable.

Congressional Immunization Briefing
Information on state immunization coverage and funding levels. Includes cost-benefit analyses of commonly used vaccines.

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): What You Need to Know (info. for parents)
What every parent should know about immunization: what vaccination is, what are the misconceptions, what shots your child needs at each stage of life.