Minot Daily News SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 2018
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CHI St. A’s pediatrician advocates for childhood immunizations
Dr. Koyejo Oyerinde looks over a chart showing the recommended vaccine schedule for children.
By JILL SCHRAMM
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Dr. Koyejo Oyerinde North Dakota’s Senior Staff Writer is concerned about that jschramm kindergarten imremaining 6 percent, @minot some of whom he sees in munization rates his practice as a pediatridailynews.com have risen significian with CHI St. Alexius cantly over the past in Minot. When hearing from parents who are reluctant to vactwo years, according to cinate, he tries to dispel common fears data from the State Health De- and myths and present the facts about partment. Rates now sit at 94 vaccines. “Parents want to do the best for their percent as compared to less children,” he said. “I am not contradictthan 90 percent at one time. ing that. We are supposed to be working
together hand in hand.” Among the myths troubling parents is that vaccines contain mercury. Oyerinde said a very tiny amount of mercury did exist in older vaccines, which were dispensed to clinics in a single, large vial from which individual doses were drawn. Vaccines no longer are preserved in that manner but are distributed in individual doses, which contain no mercury, he said. Another concern surrounding vaccines is a purported connection to autism. A British See IMMUNE — Page 5
Dr. Etta Tabe, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Trinity Health, discusses the anatomy of a pigʼs heart and bypass techniques with an anatomy class at South Prairie High School on Feb. 20. Andrea Johnson/MDN
ANATOMY LESSONS Cardiothoracic surgeon gives anatomy lessons to high school students
Dr. Etta Tabe, a cardiothoracic neurosurgeon at Trinity Health, conducted an anatomy lesson for students at South Prairie High School in February.
“What you have in front of you is a pig heart,” Tabe told the class of students, who were gathered in groups in front of lab tables, waiting to make the first cut. There are similarities between the heart of a pig and the heart of a human that make the pig’s heart a good stand-in for a human heart when students are studying anatomy. The hearts of both
By ANDREA JOHNSON
Staff Writer species have pig’s heart ajohnson four chambers, and a two atriums human’s, not @minot and two ventrileast of dailynews.com cles. A pig’s heart which that also has four pigs walk on valves and an aorta. four legs and huBlood flows through the mans on two and strucpig’s heart in the same way tural differences between the that it flows through a two hearts. human’s. Tabe discussed the Tabe also pointed out dif- anatomy of the pig’s heart and ferences between the See HEARTS — Page 3