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by Dan Salmon, PhD, MPH
Having spent the last two decades working in vaccine safety, I am often contacted by parents with concerns about vaccines for their children. Typically, one of the parents has a lot of concerns about vaccines and the other parent is concerned about not vaccinating their child. So I guess they both have concerns, while very different.
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Seeing The Value of Vaccines
by Patsy Stinchfield, MS, RN, CPNP, Infectious Disease Nurse Practitioner
I'm in the phase of my life where I am attending lots of wedding celebrations of young family members and friends' children. For me, it is one of life's most joyous occasions to see a young couple in love turning a page and beginning a new chapter of their life together.
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What Didn’t Happen
by Karen Ernst
I could be telling you another story—a story warning about the dangers of having a newborn exposed to a disease that was a rite of passage in my childhood. I could be telling my story as a grieving or wizened mother. Instead, my now six-year-old son is playing in the next room, and what happened is more about what didn’t happen.
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