Hello, I am Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canadas Chief Public Health Officer and I want to tell you about an important new initiative from the Public Health Agency of Canada. It's Time to Immunize is an interactive campaign developed for parents of infant children up to two years of age, providing the information needed to make informed decisions about your childs health. Before the introduction of mass childhood vaccination programs, Canadian parents were living with the risk of their children catching crippling and often deadly childhood diseases such as polio, mumps, rubella and diphtheria. Over the last 50 years, the introduction of childhood vaccinations has saved more lives worldwide than any other public health practice and is one of the best tools we have to protect the health of our children and avoid large-scale disease outbreaks. While immunization rates in Canada are high and occurrences of these diseases are relatively low, the risk of exposure remains. Most of these diseases are still common in other parts of the world and can unknowingly be carried from country to country. I invite you to explore the website www.phac-aspc.gc.ca where you will find important tools including provincial and territorial immunization schedules, factual information on vaccine safety, and A Parents Guide to Immunization, which provides information on the 13 serious diseases, such as measles, mumps, whooping cough, influenza, diphtheria and tetanus, that can be prevented by vaccinations ...
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