By: Tome Hale/IFL Science Parents in France will be legally obliged to vaccinate their children against 11 common illness from 2018 onwards. Currently, only three vaccines – diphtheria, tetanus, and polio – are compulsory in France. This new plan wants to extend this to include eight more: measles, hepatitis B, influenza, whooping cough, mumps, rubella, pneumonia, and meningitis…
Hand-Foot-And-Mouth Disease On The Rise: Experts Beg Parents To Know The Signs
By: Rebecca Endicott/Little Things Every parent worries about the infectious childhood illness that sweeps through classrooms and after-school programs this time of year. Most kids get their inoculations early on to avoid old-fashioned diseases like mumps and rubella that used to effect huge swathes of children every year. Even better, there’s now an annual flu shot…