Vaccines - Immunizations

Some people call them immunizations. Others call them vaccinations or shots. Whatever you call them, immunizations are one of the best weapons we have against a number of serious diseases.

• Vaccine - Preventable Diseases
  
  
• Immunization Basics
  
  
• Meningococcal Vaccine
  
  
• HPV Vaccine Information for Patients
  
  The human papilloma virus (HPV) causes cervical cancer and genital warts and is the most common sexually transmitted virus in the United States. HPV is spread through sexual contact which includes, but is not limited to, sexual intercourse. Recently, a vaccine to prevent the four most common types of HPV was approved by the FDA. AALFA Family Clinic maintains that the best way to avoid an infection with HPV is to abstain from sexual relations before marriage and to remain faithful if married. But because more than 50% of men and women are infected with HPV at sometime in their lives, exposure to the virus is possible even in a monogamous relationship (due to a spouse's possible prior exposure to HPV). HPV vaccine may prevent the disease from occurring.