measles

So Samoa has been badly hit by a measles epidemic, to the point that the Government has shutdown the country to try and prevent the further spread of the disease. It is being driven because many families are to poor to take their kids to get them vaccinated. This is the paradise that Anti-vaxers...

German parliament approves compulsory measles vaccinations - Bundestag backs law that will fine parents up to €2,500 if children are not inoculated (Guardian, Nov. 14, 2019)

This abstract at PubMed came up in a discussion a few days ago. "As previously noted among infants born to mothers with history of wild-type measles, antibody responses among children born to vaccinated mothers were reduced based on earlier administration of their first measles vaccine dose...

Sometimes it's good to remember why the general principle that unites folks on this board is important...

I want to spread the word about a Youtube channel I discovered a few months ago. The name of the channel is Kurz Gesagt - In a Nutshell. The person or people who created it do a good job of using visual aids to explain things in a concise way without any wasted time and the production values are...

Well this ought to be interesting:

Good article from Emily Willingham in Forbes. And excellent job setting a commenter straight here.

Measles cases, once considered obsolete in the U.S. are rising: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/19/measles-cases-reached-15-year-high-in-2011/?hpt=hp_c2 And then some woo-woo types said that vaccines are bad. This is what happens as a result.

Measles outbreak in Zimbabwe kills 22 children. Harare, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Twenty-two people, mainly children below the age of 5, have died of measles in Zimbabwe, the country's state media reported. The World Health Organization (WHO) said two weeks ago it was "deeply frustrated" by the...

I see that measles is on the rise yet again in the UK (and probably elsewhere) and that deaths are predicted and this is due to ... low vaccination rates. Can anyone explain why it makes more sense to listen to someone like Jenny McCarthy (who is, admittedly, quite yummy eye-candy, but is not...

Well it seems to have taken just under 2 months to go from this story, to this one and this one. In case people start to blame immigration* for the lack of take up of the vaccinations, the borough of Kensington and Chelsea has a take up of the MMR of 39%. 39%! Do we really have to wait until...

I see a fair amount of woo relating to vaccination on teh interweb, but I have seldom seen malignant stupidity displayed at the incandescent temperature of this particular antivax blog rant. It dates from last year, but is just so ridiculous that I just had to share for you to either laugh at or...

Like tapered pants and the Swatch, the deadly measles virus has come roaring back into style after morons refuse to vaccinate their children. And speaking of vaccinations, it turns out most parents want their girls to be vaccinated against HPV, despite the fact that it may encourage them to...

I've been waiting for it to happen. Yup, the measles outbreaks have claimed their first victim - a young man from Yorkshire who was dependent on herd imunity for his own protection. In Blackpool, there has been an outbreak which has seen over 40 cases of measles in the last month, with 5...

Very interesting article in the LA Times. Here's an excerpt: And this gem: TA: I just found this related, but different thread: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107164

Are we seeing the breakdown of "herd immunity" (think that's the right term) in the UK since the reduction in the vaccination rate for measles?

This was an interesting article pointed out to me by Loon: http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070311/hl_hsn/trialusesmeaslestokillbonemarrowcancer Wow. Maybe I should head an hour south and stop by the Mayo to ask some questions.

You may recall our old friend, Dr Andrew Wakefield and his research team who seem to have spent years fruitlessly trying to find something to back up their 1998 claims about measles vaccination and autism. In 2002, his team published a study (full text here if you can access it) apparently...

Measles deaths drop dramatically as vaccine reaches world's poorest children On a sidenote: In 1986, there were 23,490 reported cases of measles in Denmark. In 1987, kids began to be vaccinated routinely. In the first half of 2003 (most current figures), there were exactly 0 reported cases of...

Sadly, measles results in more than 400,000 deaths annually in Africa, though a WHO effort is underway to reduce this terrible carnage by more than 50% by 2005. Excellent progress in several test countries have been reported: Source: mmwr measles mortality reduction Hard to believe there...

Thanks to anti-vaccination woowoos, MMR vaccination rates are down to 61% - unbelievable. How many children will die because of these idiots. measles expected in UK