... -to-date. The CDC encourages adults to guard against vaccine-preventable diseases such as shingles, human papillomavirus (HPV), tetanus, meningitis, whooping cough and pneumococcal disease.         If getting those shots hadn't occurred to you, you're not alone. A survey released last month by ...
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... !"), their sports physicals ("Coach said I couldn't practice until you've signed this form!"), and their shots ("Ouch! But I won't get whooping cough or measles, whatever they are!"). Most of the kids will even grudgingly admit that they're anxious to get back to their schools, their ...
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... McCarthy has "her own science," and has done her "research" by Googling many of the anti-vaccine Web sites.         We can now prevent measles and whooping cough with vaccines. We can prevent chicken pox, most types of meningitis, and two types of hepatitis, one of which is associated with cancer of ...
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... in 1988; multiple instances of salmonella; staphylococcal food poisoning; measles outbreaks in 1987, 1990 and 1995; numerous outbreaks of pertussis (whooping cough), anthrax in 2001 and West Nile virus in 2002.         Always a nurse         Tanuz was born ("at home!") in Pecos in 1951 and grew up in ...
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... "immunization" or "vaccine" was mentioned in 49 columns. We have remarkable new vaccines, such as those that make serious infections like meningitis, whooping cough and a severe virus-caused type of diarrhea rarities now. I've seen these diseases myself since I came to New Mexico in 1970. Some columns ...
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... have never been confronted by measles, or polio or tetanus. They have not stayed awake for days on end with a baby struggling to breathe with whooping cough.     We are fortunate that vaccines have changed the landscape of disease in our children, keeping them healthy and safe from devastating diseases ...
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... Health Secretary Alfredo Vigil said Thursday it's important for children to be immunized against serious and sometimes fatal diseases, such as whooping cough and measles.     "The benefits of vaccines hugely outweigh any theoretical risk," he said in a statement.     Vigil's comments were in response ...
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... Health Secretary Alfredo Vigil said Thursday it's important for children to be immunized against serious and sometimes fatal diseases, such as whooping cough and measles.     "The benefits of vaccines hugely outweigh any theoretical risk,'' he said in a statement.     Vigil's comments ...
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... ."     With sparkling blue eyes and a ready smile, Schappet is the quintessential proponent of positive thinking. Debilitated with damaged lungs by whooping cough at age 5, his family was told by doctors not to expect him to live past age 26.     "I was home sick as much as in school," Schappet says ...
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