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Protect yourself and your unborn baby from flu
A five minute appointment to have the jab in October could save your life! Pregnant women are amongst the least likely to have the seasonal flu jab, putting themselves and their babies at risk. Less than half of pregnant women were vaccinated last season. This is despite the fact that pregnant women are more likely…
Meningitis C vaccine
Babies across the United Kingdom are to be offered the meningitis C vaccine, at the same time as their routine vaccinations. Children due to get their routine vaccinations at around two, three, four and 13 months will be offered the new jab at the same time. Meningitis C kills one in every ten people affected. When it will be…
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The Pneumococcal vaccine
What changes are being introduced? There will be three main changes to the current vaccination program in the UK. Routine pneumococcal vaccine is being introduced The MenC vaccine will be re-spaced to 3, 4 and 12 months There will be a booster of Hib at 12 months Are these changes necessary? Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam…
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The five-in-one vaccine
What is currently used and why is it being changed? Babies are already given a four in one vaccine, by injection in three stages at 2, 3 and 4 months old, which protects against diptheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough) and Hib (a meningitis bacteria). As well as this, babies are protected against Polio in the form of…
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Why should I immunise my child?
Immunisation is the safest and most effective way to protect your child against life- hreatening disease. Babies are born with some natural immunity which they get from their mother through the placenta and if she breast feeds. However, this immunity to diseases does not last long after they are born so vaccinations are given to help them build their…
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MMR vaccination programme planned for schools
10th November Thousands of school children will be offered the MMR jab in a bid to prevent a threatened measles epidemic. Health officials are writing to most of the primary schools in London to see if they will take part in the programme. The move follows warnings from the Health Protection Agency that the capital…
Doctors issue warning over MMR debate
27th June 2006 Thirty leading paediatricians have warned that continued doubts about the safety of MMR will cost lives. In an open letter the childhood immunisation experts plea with the media and health professionals to stop raising doubts about the vaccine. They say research has shown the vaccine to be safe, despite being linked to autism in a Lancet…
MMR single vaccine alternative
26 February, 2001 More than 40% of GPs want to see single vaccines on offer as an alternative to the combined MMR, a survey has found. And doctors fear that the only way to get many children vaccinated would be to offer the single jabs, or parents simply won’t agree. The poll, by the medical…
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Vaccine payments plus new measles jab
Parents of children disabled by vaccines are to receive more payment to help them care for their children. On the same day the news was released, news of a new measles vaccine using DNA was also revealed. The new vaccine involves injecting DNA instead of a weakened version of measles itself. Although only at an early stage, the…
