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Just One Baby – Why We Vaccinate
Yesterday, we took The Frogger to get her immunizations brought into like with the UK vaccination schedule. To commemorate the occasion, I thought it would be fitting to revisit a post I wrote on 5...
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Just One Baby – Why We Vaccinate
For me, 5 February is Dana McCaffery Day. I originally wrote this in 2010 to explain how much her brief time in this world meant to me, even though I had never met her. I stand by every word, and even...
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It’s not just the flu that’s going around…
H1N1 Influenza Virus.Image courtesy of the CDC. UPDATE: A major paper supporting the autoimmunity narcolepsy connection has been retracted, please see my update to this post here. It’s been a pretty...
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Science for The People: An Epidemic of Rumors
#265 – An Epidemic of Rumors This week, Science for The People looks at the power of stories and innuendo to shape the public perception of science. They speak to author Jon Lee about his book An...
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And we are going to stop drowning kittens…
by Katie McKissick The US government just announced that the CIA will no longer use fake vaccination programs as a cover for operations. At a time when anti-vaccination movements have swept the globe,...
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Polio in Pakistan – Collateral Damage of the War on Terror
Thanks to the CIA using fake vaccination programs (something they claimed to have stopped doing earlier this year) in the terrifying “War on Terror” the Taliban banned polio immunizations since 2012....
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Wanted: Leadership
In the wake of Chris Christie and Rand Paul pandering to the anti-vaccine crowd using bankrupt personal liberty rhetoric (coherent libertarian ideology requires one to admit that externalities* exist),...
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Vaccinated – Like a Boss
Filed under: This Mortal Coil Tagged: measles, Vaccination, vaccines
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Distribution
At current levels, not only does the rate of unvaccincated individuals in the population matter, but their distribution, including which vaccines they are missing (ie, clusters are bad).Filed under:...
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More than One Way to Vaccinate a Cat
No, this isn’t about cat vaccinations, but you should make sure all your pets’ shots are up to date, too. It is what we like to call, in the business, word play (technically, the term is “god-awful,...
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Anti-bodies are the best superheroes
HT: David GorskiFiled under: This Mortal Coil Tagged: Elmo, public health, Sesame Street, Surgeon General, Vaccination
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Science for the People: Mandatory Vaccination
This week, we’re talking about disease prevention, public health, and whether or not some types of vaccinations should be mandatory. We’ll spend the hour in a panel discussion with Barry Bloom, Harvard...
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