26/01/2016
http://www.cdc.gov/zika/pregnancy/question-answers.html
Question and Answers: Zika virus infection (Zika) and pregnancy | Zika virus | CDC
Zika is primarily transmitted through the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes. It can also be transmitted from a pregnant mother to her baby during pregnancy or around the time of birth. We do not know how often Zika is transmitted from mother to baby during pregnancy or around the time of birth.
06/10/2015
What is hand-foot-and-mouth disease?
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is an illness that causes sores in or on the mouth and on the hands, feet, and sometimes the buttocks and legs. The sores may be painful. The illness usually doesn't last more than a week or so.
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is common in children but can also occur in adults. It can occur at any time of year but is most common in the summer and fall.
It is not the same as other diseases that have similar names: foot-and-mouth disease (sometimes called hoof-and-mouth disease) or mad cow disease. These diseases almost always occur in animals.
What causes hand-foot-and-mouth disease?
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a virus called an enterovirus.
The virus spreads easily through coughing and sneezing. It can also spread through infected stool, such as when you change a diaper or when a young child gets stool on his or her hands and then touches objects that other children put in their mouths. Often the disease breaks out within a community.
It usually takes 3 to 6 days for a person to get symptoms of hand-foot-and-mouth disease after being exposed to the virus. This is called the incubation period.
What are the symptoms?
At first your child may feel tired, get a sore throat, or have a fever of around 101°F (38°C) to 103°F (39°C). Then in a day or two, sores or blisters may appear in or on the mouth and on the hands, feet, and sometimes the buttocks. In some cases a skin rash may appear before the blisters do. The blisters may break open and crust over.
The sores and blisters usually go away in a week or so.
In some cases there are no symptoms, or they are very mild. Parents may get the disease from their children and not even realize it.
11/08/2015
It's Summer!! Remember to relax and spend time with the kids, the back to school count down begins!
12/05/2015
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
-Charles R. Swindoll
Leave them a legacy worth remembering! Have you hugged your child today? Have you told them how special they are?
12/05/2015
NOTICE!: Thursday 14 P.T.A Meeting @ 5:30 P.M.
04/05/2015
Maranataha Earlychildhood Center Calendar of events for the month of May.
Sunday 03- 31 : Child’s Month
Monday 04 - Friday 08 : Education Week
Wednesday 06 : Teachers’ Day (school closes at 12 noon)
Thursday 07 : Girls’ Day (NO BOYS ALLOWED)
Friday 08 :Boys’ Day (NO GIRLS ALLOWED)
Thursday 14 :P.T.A Meeting @ 5:30 P.M.
Friday 15 : Children’s Day
: Read Across Jamaica
Thursday 21 : Professional Development Day – School Closes
Friday 22-25 : MID-TERM BREAK
Monday 25 : LABOUR DAY PROJECT
Tuesday 26 : School Resumes
Thursday 28 : Field Trip
22/04/2015
NOTICE: Kite Day is Friday April 24, 2015!!!!!