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Vaccines are a public health success story. This success becomes blurred by time because severe disease and deaths are reduced and prevented. People cannot see the diseases that have been prevented.

multi-ethnic babies

It is important to remember:

Vaccinations can save your child’s life.

Your child can be protected against more diseases than ever before because of advances in medical science, including vaccines. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that childhood vaccines by themselves save over 4 million lives worldwide every year (www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/vaccines-and-immunization-what-is-vaccination).

scientist in lab

Vaccines are another way to protect your children, just like helping them cross the street and making sure they wear seat belts and bike helmets.

kids with helmets on bike

Vaccinations are very safe and effective. Scientists and doctors carefully study and review each vaccine for years. The results of their studies are presented to a separate group of scientists and doctors for approval.

The vaccines that prevent certain diseases, like chicken pox, whooping cough, and influenza, still infect U.S. children, including children in Warren County.  In the U.S., vaccine-preventable diseases lead to severe illness, hospitalizations and death every year.

nurse in NICU

The diseases that vaccines prevent, like measles, are common in other countries.  When children are not vaccinated, they can easily get these diseases when traveling to other countries or when travelers from other countries visit the U.S.

 The vaccines your children should receive and when has been very well-tested by scientists and doctors. Keep in mind:

  • If a baby or child is not too young to get the disease, she/he is not too young to get the vaccine.
  • Antigens in vaccines help a person’s body build antibodies, which fight specific diseases.
  • When an infant or child receives a vaccine or multiple vaccines given at once, the number of antigens is very small compared to the number of germs that infants or children are exposed to in a normal day.

all the children in the world

You can go to the Warren County Health Department, 700 Oxford Road in Oxford to get your child vaccinated:

Our public health nurses administer the Vaccines for Children program, which covers infants and school-aged children through age 18. (Please scroll down to see the vaccines we provide for infants / school-aged children through age 18 and for adults.) Your child can receive vaccines from the Vaccines for Children program if:

1) Your child has no insurance coverage, or

2) Your child is covered by NJ Family Care Plan A or Straight Medicaid. 

Vaccine clinics are held every Wednesday at the health department. Call (908) 475-7960 for an appointment and to find out if your child qualifies for the vaccine program. If you have questions, please call and ask to speak with the vaccine clerk.

Vaccines available for infants and school-aged children through age 18:

  • (DTaP) Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis
  • (Td) Tetanus and Diphtheria
  • (Hib) Influenzae Haemophilus Type b
  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis B
  • (HPV) Human Papillomavirus
  • Influenza
  • (MMR) Measles-Mumps-Rubella
  • (MMRV) Measles-Mumps-Rubella-Varicella
  • Meningococcal
  • (PCV) Pneumococcal
  • Polio
  • Rotavirus
  • Varicella (Chickenpox)
  • COVID-19 Vaccines

Adult Vaccines:

  • (Tdap) Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis
  • Influenza
  • Hepatitis B (first responders)
  • COVID-19 Vaccines

For more information:

For parents, learn about vaccines for your children, by age group. Take the Childhood Vaccine Quiz (in English or Spanish) for a list of the vaccines that your child may need. www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/index.html

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) www.aap.org/immunization

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) www.cdc.gov/vaccines

Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) www.vaccineinformation.org

Vaccine Education Center (VEC), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center

Phone Number for more information:

CDC-INFO Contact Center – Call (800) CDC-INFO or (800) 232-4636; TTY: (888) 232-6348. CDC-INFO’s operating hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00AM to 8:00PM (ET). This Center is operated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Both members of the general public and healthcare professionals may call with questions about immunization and vaccine-preventable diseases.