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Albany, NY – On this week's show, Dr. Stieg welcomes Dr. Jaime Fergie, an infectious disease specialist. Dr. Fergie starts off talking about pediatric infectious diseases. He offers guidance to parents on how to handle a fever in a newborn or infant and talks about the importance of getting children vaccinated. Then, Dr. Stieg talks about the prevalence of advertisements for prescription drugs to treat herpes. Dr. Fergie explains the different types of herpes virus and how to avoid them. Finally, Dr. Fergie talks about some common infections like staff and whooping cough and some not so common infectious diseases like smallpox and anthrax. Dr. Stieg wraps up the show with this week's health care update.