Liputan6.com, Jakarta Internal medicine specialist at Pondok Indah Hospital – Pondok Indah Hikmat Pramukti said that vaccination or immunization is often identified with infants or toddlers.
In fact, it’s not only babies and toddlers who need vaccinations, adults and the elderly (elderly) also need them.
According to Hikmat, vaccination is an effort to prevent the transmission of infectious diseases by building immunity against certain diseases. Vaccination also plays an important role in eradicating or eliminating diseases that in ancient times had become epidemics and claimed many lives.
Until now, several viruses and bacteria that cause these diseases still have the possibility of coexisting with humans.
“You are still at risk of getting a disease if your body’s immunity is not strengthened by vaccination. Vaccination is carried out by injecting weakened viral/bacterial microorganisms into the body,” Hikmat said in a written statement, Tuesday, February 28, 2023.
Vaccines can also be part of microorganisms that have been processed in such a way that they can stimulate the immune system to recognize and fight viruses or bacteria that cause certain infectious diseases.
When someone with a well-developed immune system is exposed to disease, the symptoms are likely to be milder and less severe. With this condition, intensive care in the hospital is also not needed.
