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Who's Vulnerable in Infant Child Care Centers?
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Kendall, Earline D.; Moukaddem, Virginia E. – Young Children, 1992
Maintains that infants and toddlers, parents, and child caregivers are vulnerable to a variety of infectious diseases from infant-toddler child care centers. These diseases include infectious diarrhea; rubella; cytomeglovirus; hepatitis A, and haemophilus influenza type B. Suggests ways to prevent the spread of such diseases. (BB)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Communicable Diseases, Day Care Centers, Disease Control
Congenital TORCH Infections in Infants and Young Children: Neurodevelopmental Sequelae and Implications for Intervention.
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Hutchinson, M. Katherine; Sandall, Susan R. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1995
This article describes TORCH infections, a congenital cluster of infections including toxoplasmosis, syphilis, rubella, cytomegalovirus, and herpes which often results in developmental disabilities for infected children. Methods of transmission, incidence, and developmental outcomes for common TORCH infections are described, as are program…
Descriptors: Child Development, Communicable Diseases, Congenital Impairments, Developmental Delays
We Must Immunize Every Child by Two.
Carter, Rosalynn; Bumpers, Betty F. – Dimensions, 1992
Discusses the development and initial implementation of the "Every Child by Two" project. The project is designed to immunize as many newborn through two-year-old children in the United States as possible against communicable childhood diseases, such as measles, and to create a program to systematically immunize this age group in the…
Descriptors: Child Health, Communicable Diseases, Day Care, Disease Control