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View ArticleCIA fake vaccine program will have wide-ranging effects on health of...
Remember how the CIA used a phony vaccination campaign in order to collect DNA samples from Osama Bin Laden's family? (If this is news to you, there are lots of places to get the backstory. Suffice to...
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The whooping cough vaccine your children get may not work as well as the one...
About 20 years ago, the United States and a few other countries started using a different pertussis vaccine than had been used previously. The change was in response to public fear about some very...
View ArticleVaccine-resistant whooping cough found in Philadelphia
When we talk about the resurgence of childhood illnesses, we tend to focus on vaccine-resistant people as the primary cause. And it's true that a large population of un-vaccinated kids can give a...
View ArticleThe other problem with fake vaccine scares
It's not just that bad information on the "dangers" of vaccines is working to reduce the number of children getting vaccines — a fact that affects herd immunity. Now, there's evidence that the fake...
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Why new parents (and almost-parents) need pertussis vaccines
I'm 38 weeks pregnant now. Two weeks ago, my husband and I both got Tdap vaccines — tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis. This despite the fact that we've both gotten Tdaps relatively recently, within...
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California officials warn anti-vaxxers to avoid Disneyland
Unvaccinated people are being officially warned by California epidemiologists to avoid Disneyland in the wake of a measles outbreak. In some counties in California, more than 1 in 5 kindergartners are...
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Having the brakes removed from your car is a personal decision
Scientists may say that brakes save lives, but virtually every car-wreck co-occurs with panicked braking -- did you know that in the old days, cars didn't have brakes? It's true: engine braking was...
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Seattle kids are less likely to get polio vaccine than kids in Rwanda, and...
Nurses prepare influenza vaccine injections during a flu shot clinic at Dorchester House, a health care clinic, in Boston, Massachusetts January 12, 2013. REUTERS/BRIAN SNYDER More stunningly bad news...
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Donald Trump is an anti-vaccine autism truther who doesn't understand science
At last night's GOP Presidential Debate Theatrical Funtime Special on CNN, a brilliant moment of shining stupidity from the abundantly stupid Donald Trump. He said: “I am totally in favor of vaccines,...
View ArticleAnti-Vaxxers successfully bring back measles and whooping cough
A new report says anti-vaxxers are responsible for the rise in two infectious diseases we'd nearly eliminated from the United States. Researchers at Emory and Johns Hopkins Universities have...
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Six cases of measles confirmed in Tennessee outbreak. Measles was eradicated...
Public Health officials in Shelby County, Tennessee today confirmed six cases of measles in the county, up from two last Friday. Victims of the measles outbreak are "widely diverse" in terms of age,...
View ArticleAnti-vaxx conspiracy leaders back Donald Trump, claim it's mutual
Donald Trump has a long history of promulgating anti-vaccine conspiracy theories (contrary to received wisdom, the anti-vaxx movement draws most of its support from the political right, not hippie...
View ArticleTrump's five most "anti-science" moves
Scientific American summarized five of Donald Trump's "major moves many see as hostile toward science." They are: • Trump’s pick for head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has actively...
View ArticleAnti-Vaxx numbers still rising, stupidity will kill our children
Yet another opinion piece, this one in the New York Times, detailing how incredibly cavalier folks who decline to vaccinate their children are. It’s looking as if 2017 could become the year when the...
View ArticleHow herd immunity works
From YouTube description for this Bozeman Science video: "In this video Paul Andersen explains how immune individuals in a population give the entire group a herd immunity. Concepts of immunity,...
View ArticleDogs can get a Lyme disease vaccine, why can't you?
There are no good reasons, and a lot of bad ones, that your dog can be vaccinated for Lyme disease but you can not. Profiteering and vaccination fears have teamed up to leave humans defenseless from a...
View ArticleGo and get the new shingles vaccine: it works
My grandmother's longtime partner Rusty was a former weightlifter with the sunniest, most reslient disposition of anyone I've known, and the only time I ever saw him reduced to tears was from the pain...
View ArticleEbola keeps on keeping on
Hey gang, let's talk Ebola: Everyone's favorite viral boogeyman. Over the weekend, the AFP News Agency reported that health professionals in the Democratic Republic of Congo have uncovered five new...
View ArticleLatest Ebola outbreak has come to an end
After three months and 33 deaths, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been declared by the World Health Organization to have come to an end. The loss of 33 lives to the disease...
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