Don't ever forget that you are responsible for stories like this one: Measles, a highly contagious and dangerous virus, was thought to have been eradicated from the U.S. with vaccines -- but in recent years outbreaks have been occurring at an alarming rate. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports there was an average of 83 measles …
A Public Health Catastrophe
This is what happens when anti-vaccination lunatics are listened to. Just in case you were wondering.
Depressing Thought of the Day
The Jenny McCarthy Body Count may go up quite a bit. It is surely too much to say that she will "wipe out humanity," but it is likely not too much to say that thanks to her anti-vaccination advocacy (and that of others), there will be incidents of sickness and death that could otherwise have …
The Anti-Vaccination Crowd Is a Threat to Public Health
Julia Ioffe has whooping cough, and she knows precisely whom to blame for it:Pertussis, named after the elegantly latinate bacterium Bordetella pertussis, starts the way of any cold or mild flu. Then, a week or two later, the coughing starts. That’s because B.pertussis glom onto and paralyze the cilia, the lash-like filaments in your airways that clear it out of mucus, the stuff …
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Remember When We Thought We Had Functionally Eradicated Measles and Mumps?
Boy, those were the good old days: Deadly diseases, once nearly wiped out, are making a frightening comeback in Maryland and across the country. Now — a warning that parents who don’t vaccinate their children are putting others at risk. [. . .] Measles, mumps, whooping cough — all deadly diseases. Until recently — virtually …
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