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If they are simply too large, your tonsils can be shrunk down using special instruments which remove the valleys and crypts. Shutterstock

Curious Kids: Why do we have tonsils?????

Tonsil tissue is particularly important in the first six months of life. After this, our lymph glands take over most of the work and the tonsils are essentially out of a job.
Not only will a nasal vaccine avoid the ‘ouch’ factor, it gets the vaccine straight to the most common site of infection. from www.shutterstock.com.au

Vaccine for strep throat and rheumatic fever to be trialled in humans

Infection with streptococcus bacteria leads to a wide array of diseases ranging from strep throat to rheumatic heart disease.

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