Vaccine Preventable Diseases Archives

Does Your Child with Parotitis Have Mumps?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / August 11, 2020 / COVID-19, COVID-19 symptoms, duration of protection, IgG, IgM, mumps, mumps outbreaks, mumps testing, parotitis, PCR, unvaccinated

Who knew that diagnosing kids with parotitis would be so complicated…

Hedda Get Bedda Doll and Other Measles Stories

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / April 7, 2020 / chicken pox, Hedda Get Bedda Doll, History of Vaccines, measles, Vaccine Misinformation, Vaccine Preventable Diseases

The Hedda Get Bedda doll is sometimes used to push the myth that vaccine-preventable diseases, like measles and chicken pox, aren’t that serious, helping folks justify their decisions to skip or delay vaccines and leaving their kids unprotected.

Is This Chickenpox?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / February 24, 2020 / acetaminophen, aspirin, breakthrough chickenpox, chickenpox complications, chickenpox rash, febrile purpura, hemorrhagic varicella, ibuprofen, necrotising fasciitis, Reye syndrome, varicella zoster

Why would anyone attack a mom posting about her baby with chickenpox?

Closing Schools During Flu Outbreaks

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / February 8, 2020 / flu activity, flu exposure, flu season, preventing flu, school closings, tamiflu

When should schools close during flu outbreaks?

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