Whooping Cough has been in the news regularly over the past months, so our Midwife Angela Smith has summarised some important facts about the disease.
It is a bacterial infection, not a virus – signs and symptoms are very “flu like” with the addition of a prolonged episode of coughing. At
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Immunization
April 24th – 30th marks International Immunization week. This is a time to really celebrate how far we have come in such a short space of time.
It is difficult for us to comprehend the devastation that used to occur before these “childhood diseases” were, for the most part, eradicated by the