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Vaccines that adults need

With the ever changing world, it was not only babies and children who need vaccines; even we adults need them to help our immune system produce certain anti-bodies to combat diseases. Why is a vaccine important? A person is given a vaccine containing a weakened form of a disease, so when the real disease comes in, the body can easily beat the invader illness for without the immunization you will be prone to get the disease and may succumb to its complications. According to US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the vaccines recommended for adults are: HPV vaccine or Human Papilloma Virus vaccine This vaccine can reduce the transmission of viruses that may lead cervical cancer to women and can help prevent genital warts.