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A guide to childhood immunisation for babies up to 13 months of age (edition 2007)

Description:A guide to childhood immunisation s for babies up to 13 months of age (edition 2007) Latest guide for parents with babies up to the age of 13 months. It provides information on all the routine immunisations given to babies and young children to protect them from serious childhood diseases. It also describes these diseases and explains why children need protection agains them. In particular, it describes a vaccine, called DtaP/IPV/Hib, introduced in 2004 to protect babies against diphtheria, tetanus, perusssis (whooping cough), polio and Hib. This vaccine is given to babies when they are are two, three and four months old. This booklet also provides informtion on the new pneumococcal vaccine (PCV) which is give to babies when they are two and four months, with a booster at 13 months.
Date:2 August 2007

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