They threw their arms around each other and broke into that loud, infectious kid-sized laughter that warms your heart and reminds you that the world is good.
(Kronman's oldest son, Matthew, is a professor at the Children's Hospital in Seattle, where he specializes in infectious diseases; all four kids went to Yale).
Failure of transfer of passive immunity is a major cause of increased susceptibility to infectious agents in newborn kids.
When Pitt goes away on a business trip, the look of happiness that transports the kids is infectious.
In practice, the main culprit is the so-called "meningococcal" bacteria, Neisseria meningitidis – the top infectious cause of death in kids under five in the UK.
As that spirit comes pouring out from our kids, it becomes infectious.
African kids die from infectious diseases such as HIV, TB, malaria, respiratory illnesses, diarrhea, worms, parasites, and vaccine-preventable diseases, malnutrition and -- far too often -- during childbirth itself.
That an infectious, horrible influence on our kids is being amplified in such a position made me think that the voice of a normal mom needs to be amplified, too.
"If one of those kids is incubating an infectious disease and the other kids aren't vaccinated, then it's going to spread like wildfire," Catherine Troisi, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston told NPR in November.
Measles is highly infectious, and out of every thousand kids who get it, one to two will die.
