Employee Health Services offers routine vaccinations for staff.
The development and implementation of routine immunization has been one of the most important scientific achievements in the history of medicine. Diseases that were once rampant and/or devastating to human populations have either disappeared (like smallpox and polio) or have been greatly diminished (like measles, mumps and hepatitis B) as a result of vaccinations.
Common diseases including pneumonia, meningitis, influenza, human papilloma virus (which is a cause of cervical cancer in women) and shingles are preventable with vaccines.
Certain vaccines may need to be repeated at regular intervals, such as tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis, while others require only one dose.