BBC News 29 August 2010 The mother of a Cheshire teenager who was left severely brain damaged by the MMR vaccine has won a compensation award from the government. Robert Fletcher, 18, from Warrington, suffered a fit 10 days after he had the vaccination when he was 13 months old. His mother Jackie received the […]
4 October – 9 October: International Vaccine Victims Week
By: Norma Erickson, SaneVax 15 September 2010 Every year people around Europe gather to honor and pay tribute to vaccine victims around the world. Although, people suffering injuries from vaccines are purported to be a “small percentage” of those actually vaccinated, many groups around the world want people to understand that those who are injured, […]
Vaccine promotion – the medium matters too
Posted by Grant Jacobs on Sciblogs 28 October 2010 While some of the writers here are gearing up for Vaccine Awareness Week, Esther Taunton from Taranaki Daily News reports that the low up-take of the government-funded human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme is being laid at the feet of lack of engagement with social media […]
By: Naomi Arnold, The Nelson Mail
By: Esther Taunton 28 October 2010 Social networking websites could be putting teenage girls at risk of contracting a deadly disease. New Plymouth GP Peter Catt says girls are choosing to believe what they read on the internet instead of the advice of medical practitioners when it comes to the Government-funded cervical cancer vaccine. […]
Assumptions get in the way of vaccine
By: Naomi Arnold, The Nelson Mail 1 October 2010 A vaccination programme to protect people from the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) has been “bedevilled” by an assumption that getting girls vaccinated means they’re having sex, Nelson’s GP spokesman says. Gardasil, a vaccine that helps to prevent cervical, vaginal and vulval cancers and genital warts, […]
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