 CDC Home  Some Common Misconceptions About Vaccination and How
to Respond to Them  Following are six misconceptions that appear
in literature about vaccination, along with explanations of why
they are misconceptions.    1. Diseases had already begun to
disappear before vaccines were introduced, because of better
hygiene and sanitation.   2. The majority of people who get a
disease have been vaccinated.   3. There are "hot lots" of
vaccine that have been associated with more adverse events and
deaths than others.   4. Vaccines cause many harmful side
effects, illnesses, and even death.   5. Vaccine-preventable
diseases have been virtually eliminated from the United States.
6. Giving a child multiple vaccinations for different diseases
at the same time increases the risk of harmful side effects and
can overload the immune system.   A practitioner giving
vaccinations will encounter patients and parents who have
reservations about getting vaccinations for themselves or their
children. There can be many reasons