The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society recently issued a position statement that “opposes any legislation or regulation that would allow children to be exempted from mandatory immunizations based simply on their parents’, or in the case of adolescents, their own, secular personal beliefs.” In the statement, Christopher J. Harrison, MD, of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society […]
Villagers make polio campaign a tool to demand development
KANPUR: Though the government agencies are spending millions of rupees to fight polio, a couple of instances have surfaced where people had refused get polio drops administered to their children. In the first incident reported from Naglabhara village in Kannauj district, locals facing shortage of schools and proper roads boycotted the polio campaign on March […]
FDA: Infants May Get Meningococcal Vaccine
By Joyce Frieden, News Editor, MedPage Today WASHINGTON — The FDA has approved the first meningococcal vaccine for use in toddlers and infants as young as nine months of age. The vaccine, called Menactra, is already approved for use in people ages 2 through 55 for prevention of invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis […]
Demyelinating disease and vaccination of the human papillomavirus
[Article in Spanish] Alvarez-Soria MJ, Hernandez-Gonzalez A, Carrasco-Garcia de Leon S, Del Real-Francia MA, Gallardo-Alcaniz MJ, Lopez-Gomez JL. Source Hospital General de Ciudad Real, Ciudad Real, Espana. Abstract INTRODUCTION. Primary prevention by prophylactic vaccination against the major cause of cervical cancer, the carcinogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18, is now available worldwide. Postlicensure […]
Three Blind Mice – Bad Week for Offit, Mnookin and Deer
By Dan Olmstead Isn’t it nice to see the hammer of real journalism come down on the fringe lunatic crank ravings of the Three Blind Mice of Autism Epidemic Enablers — profiteering vaccine-damage denier Paul Offit, cruel and credulous junk science-swallower Seth Mnookin, and sick-child tormentor Brian Deer? Offit got the worst of it, with […]
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