National Vaccination Day 2022, History, Significance, Theme, Quotes And Images

National Vaccination Day 2022 is celebrated in March every year, it emphasizes the significance of the vaccination and its effect on public health, complete details about National Vaccination Day is given here. Read further to know National Vaccination Day 2022.

by C Hariharan

Updated Mar 04, 2022

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National Vaccination Day 2022, History, Significance, Theme, Quotes And Images
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National Vaccination Day 2022

Vaccination is one of the important tools for curing lifetime diseases and other temporary diseases. As per the World Health Organization(WHO), immunization is the most significant tool for eradicating life-threatening infectious diseases. This day is most important for improving the communities' public health and life expectancy standards. It is very important for improving the health of the public. The aim of National Vaccination Day is to promote awareness about Vaccines, to make them free from diseases. 

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When Is National Vaccination Day?

Each year the National Vaccination Day is celebrated on 16th March. Here is the list of dates of the National Vaccination Day yearly. 

Date 

Day 

16 March 2019

Friday 

16 March 2020

Monday 

16 March 2021

Tuesday 

16 March 2022

Wednesday 

16 March 2023

Thursday

National Vaccination Day 2022 History

The vaccination history dates back to some hundred years ago. The proof points to the Chinese employing the smallpox vaccination from 1000A.D. Edward Jenner is an English physician, who invented the smallpox vaccine in 1796. The immunization is only called Vaccination because it comes from the term Vacca, which means Cow in the Latin language.  The Salk Polio vaccine was developed in 1985, using the Viral Tissue culture methods. Alexander Glenny had made a research method, which resulted in the discovery of the diphtheria vaccine. The yellow fever vaccine was developed by Max Theiler of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1951. For that research, he got the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Department. 

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Significance of National Vaccination Day 

Vaccination is the process of inserting the vaccine into the body to support the immune system develop immunity against a disease. The vaccines consist of the microorganisms and the viruses in the killed or live state. The vaccination procedure was followed even by the people of African and Turkish people. The vaccines stimulate the body's immunity and result in the prevention of sick diseases.  The strong immunity due to the vaccination results in the protection from different types of diseases. Hence Vaccination Day observance is important to promote the use of the Vaccines. 

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National Vaccination Day 2022 Theme 

Each year, there are various themes to celebrate vaccination Day. The main theme of the National Vaccination is to promote the importance of the Vaccine. This year, that is National Vaccination Day 2022 Theme is “Vaccines Work For All”. Here is the list of Themes of World Immunization Day.

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Day 

Theme

World Immunization Day 2020

VaccinesWork for All”

World Immunization Day 2019

Protected Together, #VaccinesWork

World Immunization Day 2018

Protected Together

World Immunization Day 2017

Vaccines Work

World Immunization Day 2015-16

Close the immunization gap

National Vaccination Day 2022 Quotes

National Vaccination Day has different quotes on different days. Here are some of the Quotes from the National Vaccination Day. 

  • You can’t save kids just with vaccines. – Melinda Gates

  • We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them. – Bill Gates

  • Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health. – William Foege

  • As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination. – George Bernard Shaw

  • Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. – Napoleon Bonaparte

  • If you give us a safe vaccine, we’ll use it. It shouldn’t be polio versus autism. – Jenny McCarthy

  • Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It’s a simple message parents need to keep hearing. – Jeffrey Kluge

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National Vaccination Day 2022 - FAQs

1. What is National immunization Day?  

In 2022, the Government of India has organised the Polio National Immunization Day 2022 (NID) (also known as ''Polio Ravivar”) on February 27, 2022, to give two drops of oral polio vaccine (OPV) to every child in the country under the age of five.

2. What is the theme of World Immunization Week?    

Using the theme 'Vaccines bring us closer', World Immunization Week 2021 will urge greater engagement around immunization globally to promote the importance of vaccination in bringing people together, and improving the health and wellbeing of everyone, everywhere throughout life.

3. When is international vaccination day?  

The main aim of celebrating the National Vaccination Day is to make everyone aware of arming against polio and to eradicate the disease completely from the world. Every year on March 16, National Vaccination Day, the government comes up with numerous health related schemes.

4. What is immunization and what types of immunization?  

Immunization (or vaccination) protects people from disease by introducing a vaccine into the body that triggers an immune response, just as though you had been exposed to a disease naturally.

5. Why is the rotavirus vaccine given?  

Rotavirus spreads easily among infants and young children. The virus can cause severe watery diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and abdominal pain. Children who get rotavirus disease can become dehydrated and may need to be hospitalized. CDC recommends that infants get rotavirus vaccine to protect against rotavirus disease.

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