MODEL RELEASED. DTP vaccination. Nurse about to inject the DTP vaccine into the leg of a 3.5- month-old baby girl being held by her mother. DTP is a combined vaccine to protect infants from three bacterial diseases: diphtheria,tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough). Three doses are given from 2-6 months of age,followed by later booster injections. The vaccine contains killed bacteria and bacterial toxoids,causing a weakened response from the body's immune system,which prepares defences against future infection. Vaccines are given to babies and young children as part of a childhood vaccination schedule. Combined vaccines speed up this process | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Ashfield, Samuel |
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