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Health Department: Expecting Mothers Should Get Vaccinated

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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Department of Health is reminding expecting mothers to get vaccinated during pregnancy in recognition of National Immunization Awareness Month.

The department said Monday that two vaccines that are frequently recommended to pregnant women are for influenza and whooping cough, or pertussis.

Barbara Philips is a nurse educator for the Department of Health immunization program. Philips says flu shots protect expecting mothers from flu-related problems such as early labor and delivery.

She says if a mother gets the whooping cough vaccine during pregnancy it will transfer antibodies that will help protect the baby during its early life.

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Online: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/

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