Tech Doc: Immunize your children to help save lives - Lubbock Online.com

Immunizations have helped revolutionize medicine. In fact, there probably has not been any other aspect in the field of medicine that has had as much of a positive impact as vaccines. There has been a drastic decrease in the incidence of chicken pox, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, influenza, rotavirus and other illnesses since the introduction of vaccines against them.

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LESLEY MOTHERAL, M.D., IS AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT THE TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS AND A PEDIATRICIAN FOR TEXAS TECH PHYSICIANS — PEDIATRICS

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