For example, a recent study showed that children who had not received the measles vaccine were 35 times more likely to get the disease. Immunizations work by naturally using the power of the body's own immune system to battle against diseases. There are no effective alternatives to immunization for protection against serious and sometimes deadly infectious diseases. While breastfeeding can help to prevent some diseases among babies, it is not effective in preventing the serious diseases that immunizations do. It can cause muscle spasms, breathing and heart problems, and death.
Pertussis can cause lung problems, seizures, brain damage and death.
It can be passed from an infected mother to her newborn during childbirth and from one person to another through blood or body fluids or by intimate contact. The hepatitis B virus can cause liver damage, liver cancer and death. It is second only to tobacco in causing human cancer. It is most serious in infants under one year of age. Measles causes a high fever, rash, and cold- like symptoms.