A Pox on the Taxpayer
A handful of countries recommend the chickenpox (varicella) vaccine for all children and an even smaller group have a chickenpox booster on the schedule. The US leads the pack of countries with a 2...
View ArticleDo the Right Thing!
Every August we are hit by a wave of publicity for National Immunization Awareness Month, reminding everyone in the United States to get their children vaccinated, themselves vaccinated, their parents...
View ArticleVaccine Exemption Shenanigans?
Recently we’ve come across multiple examples of local authorities messing with vaccine exemptions. Nothing new, of course, about the media publishing stories which leave out the availability of...
View ArticlePolio: Causes and Effects, Part I
We saw in our first [1] blog on polio that infection with this virus was common, but paralytic polio was rare. In our second [2] article we reviewed the history of polio and the significant number of...
View ArticlePolio: Causes and Effects Part II
Cut a hole in the immune system? During the first half of the 20th century, every parent and child feared the word “polio”. In an epidemic, it attacked male and female, black and white, from rural...
View ArticleImmunizations in foreign countries are unsafe
What? A new law, sponsored by Senator Klobuchar, allows children being adopted into the U.S. to skip being vaccinated in their home countries because apparently millions of children are being exposed:...
View ArticleLessons from H1N1: How Partial Immunity Can Kill You
We are now in the thick of the influenza season, and it is a true shame that the emphasis on vaccines against the flu has drowned out any mainstream discussion much less headlines for an important...
View ArticleOverinformed Refusal Has to be Stopped
And Sanofi Pasteur is taking action with their new web-site. The ImmYounity(SM) campaign provides consumer-friendly, accurate and science-based information about immunization that can be easily...
View ArticleWritten by Parents? Based on Science?
This is our second post reviewing the new pro-vaccine site brought to you by Sanofi Pasteur. In our first post we followed up on the claim that the site is science-based. In this one we’ll have a look...
View ArticleWhooping Cough – Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics
According to the CDC (2002) However, since the early 1980s, reported pertussis incidence has increased cyclically with peaks occurring every 3–4 years. And yet whooping cough increases are being...
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