Vaccinations
Vaccinations
Vaccinations services offered in Scottsboro, AL
Vaccinations offer effective protection against many deadly diseases. Muhammad Ata, MD, and the team at Premier Medical Clinic in Scottsboro, Alabama, offer a variety of childhood vaccinations and shots for flu, pneumonia, and COVID-19, to help keep you healthy. To check on your vaccination status, call Premier Medical Clinic today or book an appointment online.
What are vaccinations?
Vaccinations introduce substances into your body that protect you from many serious diseases. Avoiding these life-changing and potentially fatal conditions with vaccinations makes a lot more sense than enduring the pain, inconvenience, and expense of getting sick.
Premier Medical Clinic provides vaccinations starting in childhood. But you might need vaccinations in your adulthood. These vaccinations prevent you and your family from developing diseases such as:
- Measles
- Mumps
- Rubella
- Diphtheria
- Tetanus
- Chickenpox
- Rotavirus
- Pneumococcal infection
- Whooping cough (pertussis)
- Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
- Hepatitis A and B
- Polio
- Seasonal flu
- Human papillomavirus (HPV)
- COVID-19
- Pneumonia
- Measles
- Mumps
- Rubella
- Diphtheria
- Tetanus
- Chickenpox
- Rotavirus
- Pneumococcal infection
- Whooping cough (pertussis)
- Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
- Hepatitis A and B
- Polio
- Seasonal flu
- Human papillomavirus (HPV)
- COVID-19
- Pneumonia
If you’re traveling abroad, you can also get vaccinations against diseases that aren’t common in the United States but are common overseas, like yellow fever.
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Are vaccinations safe?
Vaccinations have an excellent safety record. They use forms of bacteria and viruses that can’t make you sick, such as:
- Dead bacteria or viruses
- Live, weakened bacteria or viruses
- Fragments of genetic material
- Deactivated toxins released by a bacteria or virus
- Dead bacteria or viruses
- Live, weakened bacteria or viruses
- Deactivated toxins released by a bacteria or virus
- Fragments of genetic material
Side effects from vaccinations are rare. Vaccinations offer a safe and effective way of protecting your family from devastating effects—severe pain and disability. To learn more about which vaccinations you or your family needs, call Premier Medical Clinic today or book an appointment online.
How does vaccination work?
Vaccines use the immune system’s natural functions to stop these diseases from affecting you. Your immune system defends you from infection by identifying bacteria, viruses, and other dangerous microorganisms. When it detects these invaders, your immune system instructs your white blood cells to produce antibodies, which attack and kill bacteria and viruses. You need specific antibodies for different diseases, so your immune system remembers the ones it makes, then reproduces them if the same organism tries to invade in the future. You get most of your vaccinations in childhood, and many of them offer long-term or permanent protection. However, you might need booster vaccinations to remain immune from some diseases. Seasonal flu vaccinations require annual boosters because of the many different influenza virus strains. Your provider at Premier Medical Clinic can advise you on which vaccinations you and your family need.