If you paid attention only to the last couple of years’ worth of media-hyped stories about vaccine-preventable diseases in North America, I am pretty sure that you would think that the influence of the anti-vaccine mobs has gotten much more prevalent, and that they’ve managed to convince millions of people not to vaccinate themselves, and […]
This one would stump Einstein. In a study just released at the American Heart Association annual meeting (so the data has not been published in a journal yet), researchers examined data collected between 2008 and 2015 on flu shot rates among more than 15,000 Americans aged 40 and up who were at high risk of […]
France has recently announced that starting in 2018, 11 vaccinations will now become mandatory, which will bring to 14 the number of vaccinations every French child must get. The newest additions include pertussis, measles, mumps, and rubella. Which is about as wise an attempt to limit the damage of these infections as any government can […]