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Vaccines prevent only the Infectious Diseases that they were made to prevent. For example, a vaccine for one type of flu will prevent that type of flu, but you may still get other types if you are not also vaccinated for them. This is why the seasonal flu vaccine usually contains vaccine for the three most likely types of flu that are expected to circulate at the next flu season.

There are vaccines for the various types of influenza, for other viral diseases like measles, mumps and polio and for a very limited number of bacterial disease such as one common type of bacterial pneumonia.

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If you do not want to get chicken pox then you do need to get a vaccine for chicken pox. mmr vaccine does not vaccinate against chicken pox. MMR vaccinates against measles, mumps and rubella. A chicken pox vaccine, vaccine against Varicella Zoster is need to help prevent getting the chicken pox. However, as with all vaccines it is not 100% fool proof. Even after being vaccinated against the Chicken Pox it is technically possible to get the chicken pox illness. If you catch the chicken pox after being vaccinated, the illness is usually less severe than if you did not have the vaccination.

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The MMR vaccine or Multiple Vaccine gives immunity to the body.It helps prevent many diseases such as pneumonia, menengitis, liver cancer,many infectious diseases about 16 of them such as measles.

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MEASLES, MUMPS, RUBELLA

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measles, mumps, rubella.

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Measles, mumps and rubella.

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Measles, mumps & rubella

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