Muskoka-Parry Sound Health Unit Immunization Vaccination for influenza is free to all citizens in Ontario. Ask your doctor, or visit the clinic nearest you. Without it, health care costs would soar and disease would run rampant.
Immunization prevents certain diseases from getting started.
It does this through the injection of various vaccines into people. The vaccines build the body's defences and triggers the immune system to stop diseases caused by certain viruses and bacteria. Over the decades, immunization programs have either completely or nearly wiped out several diseases including smallpox, polio, whooping cough and haemophilus B. Diseases currently being combated through public health immunization programs are measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, hemophilus, hepatitis B, influenza and influenza B. Providing vaccines not only prevent disease, they also reduce the need for health care services.