MINISTER of Health Sylvia Masebo has urged parents to ensure their newborn babies are vaccinated against polio and measles. And Masebo says nowadays, women are the ones running many households in terms of economic survival because they are the ones on the streets, in markets and in offices. Speaking in the National Assembly, Masebo said even dogs were getting vaccinated against diseases to keep them healthy and alive. “Madam Speaker, and it is part of the reasons why we are seeing that at times, parents shun bringing their children for vaccination because there are all sorts of myths concerning vaccines. But vaccines are not a new concept, everybody seated here, we have all been vaccinated and we are still living....

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