What are the immunization programmes available at the nearest health centre in your locality? Which of these diseases are the major health problems in your area?

-Priyanti, Subject Matter Expert at Edumarz

Solution: Common immunization programmes available in our locality include:

• The smallpox vaccine for children

• Vaccination of children against typhoid

• Prevention of polio, where infants and children are orally inoculated against the poliovirus

• Inoculation against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus through the DPT vaccine administered to infants

• Vaccine against measles for infants

• Administration of hepatitis B vaccine to pregnant women

Occasional, sporadic outbreaks of measles occur in our locality.