Worldwide, there are an estimated 1.4 million cases of hepatitis A every year.3 The word “hepatitis” means “inflammation of the liver”. When someone gets hepatitis, the liver’s ability to function becomes compromised. If you’ve been walking this planet for the last decade, you may have heard of the term “hepatitis” thrown around followed by a letter. […]
I have been a huge fan of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) for as long as I have been studying vaccines. Their Vaccine Education Center (VEC) has been one of my go-tos for information that I know I can trust. Being a researcher, I know there’s a lot of bad vaccine information out there. […]
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 […]
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 […]
When our bodies become sick with a virus, bacteria, fungi, parasite, etc., our adaptive immune system, the one that “remembers” microbes, not only fights off the microbe but creates protective immunity against it. Protective immunity is the body’s ability to resist a certain disease. The body’s source of protective immunity against microbes comes from the […]