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Article: DAY-CARE DILEMMA: DISEASE CONTROL.(Living Today)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 9, 1986
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Byline: Lisa Krieger
The dramatic increase in the number of children in U.S. day-care facilities is presenting new problems in infectious disease control. Many day-care children are exposed to a wide variety of viruses, bacteria and parasites, although short-lived epidemics of diarrhea and the flu are more common.
"Today, younger and younger children are spending more time outside the home on a regular daily basis," says Michael T. Osterholm of the Minnesota Department of Health, an expert on day-care disease. The situation has created "a new era in the study of infectious diseases," he says.
Although nurseries for the daily care of preschool ...