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...value of vaccinations is most obvious to those who remember row upon row of iron lungs occupied by victims of polio epidemics and the quarantine signs posted on the homes of people stricken by diphtheria, whooping cough, smallpox and measles. Of these scourges, smallpox has been wiped out and the others have become rare and largely preventable through the use of vaccines. Says Duke University pediatrics professor Samuel Katz, a leading authority on vaccines: "Immunization is the single intervention that has most dramatically reduced childhood morbidity and mortality...
More concerns were raised last month when a congressional-subcommittee hearing learned that DTP, a combination vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), is still on the market. As far back as 1994 the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences warned that DTP was responsible for cases of brain inflammation and permanent brain damage. A safer version, called DtaP, is now recommended...
...then there was the whooping cough. And the disappointment of the past year when Miller and rest of the team that she co-captained, could not manage to rise and re-capture their former glory. Still, the Miller party is content to revel in memories of the process, no matter how trying, in "winning three championships and then not winning the fourth and what that taught...
...Numerous players were either sick or injured during the preseason, and the team never fully healed. From walking pneumonia to broken fingers to a season-long bout with whooping cough, Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith's team couldn't stay healthy, and that proved to be Harvard's downfall...
...Following its opening night win over B.U., the Crimson dropped eight of its next nine games, including six in a row. Harvard even had a contest at UNH cancelled because the Massachusetts Board of Health quarantined the team to campus due to its exposure to whooping cough...