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Vaccination Of A Doctor 's Office

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The smell of a doctor’s office is unforgettable. You always come in when you are sick, but what about when you aren’t? You worry and cry over something that is helping you and possibly saving your life along with many other lives. What you will receive in the doctor’s office is a vaccination. I have done research on vaccinations and I myself have gotten an influenza vaccination annually. It is recommended to have a first vaccination starting when we are born and eventually as we age we have more recommended vaccinations. I will be telling you about the history of vaccinations, how vaccinations protect you, and what happens when you don’t get vaccinated. For many centuries, smallpox killed millions of people. In the United States, we no longer have to worry about this infectious disease because Dr. Edward Jenner created a vaccination to prevent people from catching this disease. According to John B. Blake, the author of Benjamin Waterhouse and the introduction of Vaccination, In July of 1800, Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse whom was Harvard’s first professor of the Theory and practice of Physic, introduced the practice of vaccination against small pox into the United States.
According to vaccines.gov, a vaccination is the injection of a killed or weakened organism that produces immunity in the body against that organism. I know that getting a vaccination isn’t the best part of our day, but getting a simple little shot will help save many lives and continue to fight back some of

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