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🌧️ [LOOK] It’s officially habagat season! 🌧️
PAGASA has declared the start of the rainy weather...and with it comes a higher risk for certain illnesses.

🚨 Stay one step ahead! Here are some health tips to keep you and your family safe during the wet season.

🩺 Brought to you by the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of the Philippines (PIDSP)
🎨 Words and illustrations by Andrew Camposano, M.D.

💧Let’s stay dry, stay safe, and stay healthy!

Latest reporting from the CDC shows this year’s flu season is the deadliest non-pandemic flu season for U.S. children. 216 children have died. This number passed last year’s flu season, which set a previous high for a non-pandemic season with 207 pediatric deaths. Even with seasonal flu activity declining since its February peak, AAP and CDC recommend everyone six months and older get vaccinated against the flu. Learn more about this from AAP News at https://bit.ly/3GEdTlu

[LOOK] Vaccines are safe and effective.
Through vaccination, we are able to save and improve countless lives from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Join us as we celebrate World Immunization Week from April 24 to 30. This infographic is brought to you by PIDSP.

An unvaccinated child is at higher risk of catching measles and losing the chance of a healthy life. Measles is a highly contagious disease that spreads easily when an infected person breathes, coughs or sneezes.

Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.

Measles can lead to severe, long-term complications and can even cause your immune system to forget how to resist infections.

🔸Brain damage
🔸Severe diarrhoea and dehydration
🔸Deafness
🔸Blindness
🔸Pneumonia

Two doses of the measles vaccine is the only way to prevent measles.