Failure to Vaccinate Children Against Diseases Other Than Meningitis
In addition to meningococcal meningitis vaccination, there exist many other diseases guardians of children should be recommended and offered vaccines to prevent. These include the diseases set forth below:
- Polio
- Pneumonia
- Rotavirus
- Hepatitis A & B
- Haemophilus Influenza Type B
- Influenza
- Chickenpox/ Varicella
- Measles/Mumps/Rubella
- Diptheria, Tetanus, Pertusis/Whooping Cough
Failure to Vaccinate Adults Against Diseases Other Than Meningitis
Children are not the only victims whose medical practitioners fail to offer and provide nationally recommend vaccines. Often many adults in the United States are seriously harmed by disease that would have been completely prevented had their practitioner properly and timely offered the appropriate vaccine. Some examples of preventable diseases and vaccines which prevent them are set forth below:
- Chicken Pox/Varicella Disease
- Meningococcal Meningitis
- Measles, Mumps Or Rubella
- Human Pappilloma Virus/HPV
- Influenza/ Flu
- Pneumonia
- Hepatitis A & B
- Tetnus, Diptheria, Pertusis/Whooping Cough (It should be noted the number of cases of
- Pertusis/Whooping Cough in 2004 was at a 45 year high)
- Polio
- Rabies
If you or a loved one has suffered from the following diseases please contact us so that we may investigate for you whether an appropriate vaccine should have been given, and if given, would have prevented the disease from ever occurring.
