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Protect Your Child from Rotavirus! | Joyful Digesting

By FiberBoy 228 days ago from http://www.joyfuldigesting.com

Good news for parents and parents-to-be everywhere: there’s now a new vaccine to prevent your child from experiencing the horrid vomiting and diarrhea associated with rotavirus.

Over 2.7 million children are stricken with rotavirus each year. Without vaccination, the chances are very, very high that an child will get infecte

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Flu Vaccine is OK for Egg-Allergic Folks! | Joyful Digesting

By FiberBoy 245 days ago from http://www.joyfuldigesting.com

Great news for those suffering from an egg allergy: You can now safely receive the flu vaccine, according to an allergist in Philadelphia.

For years, people with an egg allergy have been denied access to the annual flu vaccine since it contains protein from eggs. This vaccination is especially critical in children with aller

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PampersMommyBloggerEvent:“SupportUNICEF’sMaternalandNeonatalTetanus”Widget!

By blm03 105 days ago from http://themommyblog.net

Not one of us walked away from our visit with UNICEF USA’s CEO Caryl Stern unaffected by her descriptions of the thousands of preventable neonatal and maternal deaths from Tetanus, a totally preventable disease. The cost of a single vaccine? Five cents. There was no question we weren’t going to do something about it.

Every

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How YOU can help wipe out Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus | Table for Five-Taking it one day at a time since 1996

By blm03 105 days ago from http://table4five.net

Yes, YOU, you right there, reading this site. Do you have five cents? Your five cents can SAVE A LIFE. WOW, right? In poor countries like Angola, women give birth on dirt floors and then their umbilical cords are cut with knives made from a piece of sugarcane pulled right out of the ground. Do you know what lives in dirt? TETAN

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Vaccines & More Vaccines

By blm03 104 days ago from http://ohamanda.com

Tetanus? Is that even a thing anymore? Who’s ever heard of someone who has tetanus? Not me.

Well, until I went to Cincinnati. Until I met (!) the President & CEO of US Fund for UNICEF, Caryl Stern. Until I saw the video diary of Bryan McCleary, Director of External Relations of P&G and his trip with UNICEF to Angola, Africa.

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