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Welcome to...🎄The Dr Jenner's House Vaccine Preventable Disease Advent Calendar🎄
Over the next 24 days we'll be telling you about 24 different infectious diseases, all of which can be prevented by vaccination #VaccineAdventCalendar
Over the next 24 days we'll be telling you about 24 different infectious diseases, all of which can be prevented by vaccination #VaccineAdventCalendar
Day 1: human papillomavirus vaccines (HPV). There are over 100 types of human papillomaviruses; at least 14 are known to cause cancer. HPV vaccines are highly effective against the two HPV types (16 and 18) responsible for 70% of cervical cancers globally #VaccineAdventCalendar
Day 2: rotavirus. Globally, rotavirus is the most common cause of diarrhoea and vomiting in children and is estimated to have caused 215,000 deaths in 2013. In the UK the number of cases of rotavirus fell by over 70% after 2013 when a vaccine was introduced #VaccineAdventCalendar
