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Mark this one down in the “if, then” column. A new study says if you don’t get your kids the chicken pox vaccine, they are at an extremely high risk of catching the disease.
Hence the point of vaccines. Continue reading »
The American Academy of Pediatrics, along with the CDC and the AAFP, recently announced changes to the childhood vaccine schedule.
For parents who follow their pediatrician’s vaccination guidelines, not much will change. New recommendations include:
My head? It’s spinning.
As if it wasn’t enough to track down swine flu shots for the kids, trucking to different clinics depending on their ages, and then doing it all over again for the second shot as close to 21 days after the first as possible — all while reading conflicting reports about whether it’s actually necessary, whether this isn’t just a mild little bug, whether this whole Swine Flu/H1N1 thing isn’t just a big ol’ media event.
As if all that wasn’t enough, now there’s this: health officials are recalling 800,000 doses of the kids’ H1N1 vaccine. Continue reading »
A mom who opted out on the swine flu shots for kids at her daughter’s school is spitting mad – the school immunized the child anyway.
Natasha Jones told WSOCTV she’d told the school nurse at her daughter’s South Carolina Elementary School she specifically didn’t want the girl inoculated against swine flu. Continue reading »
While Jenny McCarthy waxes on righteously indignant about why parents like her don’t have to vaccinate, it’s parents like Stephanie Tatel left wondering where in the world their kids are safe.
Tatel’s toddler has leukemia, and as she points out in a Slate medical article this week, he’s one of the kids to whom the non-vaccinated are a direct threat to life. Continue reading »
The first batches of swine flu vaccinations should be rolling out in about two weeks, but President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama won’t be among the first to be vaccinated. Instead, they’ll wait until priority groups are immunized first.
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