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No, combination vaccines don't overwhelm kids' immune systems

  • Written by: Kristine Macartney, Associate Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
imageParents are concerned combination vaccines, which protect against several diseases at once, can be too much for a young immune system to cope with.from www.shutterstock.com

No parent likes seeing their child have injections. Yet, around 93% of parents across Australia protect their children against 15 serious diseases by giving them all the...

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