Not just for your own health, for the health of your family and community...

Now that we don’t see people getting polio and meningitis and measles and mumps and rubella, people don’t recognize that in Canada, hundreds of kids used to get sick and be hospitalized every year. People would die every year from these illnesses. So nobody sees the bad stuff, and they forget why vaccines were put in place. We’re so lucky in Canada. The vaccines that we offer are free, and readily available. All the nurses who give them are well trained. It’s safe, it’s effective. We should be counting our blessings that we have access to these vaccines that can prevent illnesses.

It’s really important for people to recognize that when they get vaccinated, it’s not just for their own health; it’s for the health of their family, and it for the health of their community. Because the more people who get vaccinated, the less chance there is in of anybody in the community getting sick with the illness the vaccine prevents.

- Doctor working in Nunavut