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National Immunization Month: How Vaccines Work and More
August is National Immunization Awareness Month! Educate yourself and others on immunization, vaccines, and more with these stories.
Anyone around in the 1960s and earlier knew not to mess with the measles. Measles, aka rubeola, is a dangerous and highly contagious infectious …
Medicine has come a long way over the years. The development of the vaccine kicked off an era of illness prevention unlike anything the world had ever …
Your annual flu shot protects you from some types of flu, usually the ones that got people sick the year before. But if a new strain of flu shows up, …
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