Vaccine for teens

Pubblicato il 04/08/2012Read time: 1 min

Chris Mullin, a retired American basketball player, teams up with Vaccine for Teens to help educate parents and their teenager children about the need to get vaccinated. In a video recently released on Youtube, the NBA Hall of Famer and member of the 1992 Dream Team stressed the importance of vaccination as the best defence against serious and life-threatening diseases like influenza, pertussis and meningitis.

Vaccine for teens is national program realized in collaboration with the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM), Sanofi Pasteur and the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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di Michele Bellone

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