With coughing so severe it could crack your baby’s ribs, pertussis (whooping cough) can be life-threatening to children under the age of one. But, your baby doesn’t get his first pertussis vaccine until he is 2 months old, so how do you protect him from this horrible and life-threatening disease in the first few months […]
You may think polio is a disease of the past, and here in America, it sort of is. However, without the polio vaccine, America could easily see polio again. Polio was once the leading cause of disability in the United States. It was also considered one of the most dreaded of the childhood diseases. During […]
If you’re like me, you probably had the chickenpox as a kid, way before varicella (chickenpox) vaccine was introduced to the public. I remember the itchy spots and can recall lying on the couch doing my best not to scratch them. If you made it through childhood without catching the chickenpox and haven’t been vaccinated […]
I had a chance to listen in on a conference call with some amazingly motivated vaccine advocates and some of the creative talents behind the documentary, Invisible Threat. The documentary is produced by high school student filmmakers and explores the science behind vaccinations and the fears and misconceptions people have about vaccines. The Invisible Threat is so […]
Way back before the 1930’s lots of kids were dying from vaccine-related bacterial infections. That’s because kids were given their vaccines from multi-dose vials–vials intended to be used more than one time, but with different needles. It turns out that’s not a very clean way of giving vaccines. This allowed for bacteria and fungi to […]
