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Ilsa

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1. Age two months is when most babies get their first vaxes.
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 05:56 PM
Sep 2012

And then it takes two-plus weeks for the protection to kick in. Everyone else around this baby should have been vaccinated before so they wouldn't have subjected this infant to this horrible disease.
I suspect some that did the infecting were adults whose vaccinations were out of date.

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