It’s all based on anecdotes, and anecdotes are notoriously unreliable, but news items are claiming that doctors around British Columbia are reporting that since the spate of measles cases that has erupted recently in BC has been so much in the news, many teens who had not been vaccinated against measles as young children have […]
In a recent post, I discussed the measles outbreak in Europe, and as was entirely predictable, the news just keeps getting worse. WHO has just updated data that showed that there have now been 35 deaths from measles in Europe in the current outbreak (probably more if you consider that it’s likely that in adults […]
The World Health Organization reported in March that measles was spreading throughout Europe, and at that time WHO had a particular concern about Italy and Romania, a country in which measles had already resulted in the deaths of 17 people over the previous few months. Sadly, the situation has just become worse since then with […]