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| May 30 - June 6 |
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| PKIDs: Hepatits B |
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| One mother shares the account of her family's struggles with hepatitis B infection. When babies get infected with hepatits B virus, it usually remains in the body for a lifetime (this is called chronic hepatitis B). About 1 out of 4 infected babies will die of liver failure or liver cancer as adults. Hepatitis B is a deadly disease – but it’s preventable with vaccination. PKIDs has made each of these videos available in a variety of formats and lengths for use by your organization free-of-charge. |
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| June 7-13 |
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| Baby Dies from Pertussis |
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When Callie was a couple weeks old, she developed a persistent cough, and during a return visit to the doctor, Callie stopped breathing and was rushed to the hospital. Two days later, Callie stopped breathing again and could not be saved. The young infant had contracted pertussis, a highly contagious bacterial disease.
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| CDC recommends that adolescents and adults, particularly those who have close contact with a young baby, should be immunized with a single Tdap booster vaccine against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis. |
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| June 14-20 |
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| CDC Commentary: PCV13 Recommendations |
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| In this CDC Expert Video Commentary on Medscape.com, Dr. Matthew Moore discusses the problem of pneumococcal disease among American children and the new opportunity that we have to prevent it with the new pneumococcal conjugate vaccine--PCV13. (Registration is required to access this feature on Medscape.) |
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| June 21-27 |
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| Protect Tomorrow PSAs |
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| These public service announcements (PSAs) from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) contain a message that can have a real impact on our children and their future. The PSAs remind parents about the devastation of diseases of the not-so-distant past and urges them to talk with their pediatricians about immunizing their children so that history does not repeat itself. |
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| June 28 - July 4 |
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| How the Immune System Works |
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| This animated video from the National Institutes of Health presents an overview of the immune system, including the role of specialized white blood cells, called lymphocytes that adapt themselves to fight specific foreign invaders. |
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