Effectiveness of Measles Vaccine Questioned in South Sudan
Story Highlights Children who have received MMR vaccinations are contracting measles, and parents and health care workers in South Sudan have raised questions regarding the effectiveness of the measles vaccine since vaccinated children are contracting the disease. Severe acute malnourishment (SAM) is common among children in war-torn South Sudan, which compromises their immune systems. Although […]
State Bills Propose Full Disclosure of Vaccine Side Effects
Opinion | Numerous bills have been introduced in state legislatures throughout the United States that seek to preserve parental rights with regard to vaccination. States that have proposed legislation to ensure that parents have the information they need to give informed consent to vaccination include Arizona, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, Mississippi, Montana, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Rhode […]
Do Vaccines Often Cause Serious Side Effects?
A new poll by the European Commission’s (EC) Special Eurobarometer on Vaccines found that 48 percent of European surveyed believe that vaccines often produce serious side effects, compared with 41 percent who don’t. The face-to-face poll of 27,524 respondents was conducted by European market research firm Kantar between Mar. 15 and Mar. 29, 2019 at […]
Roald Dahl Lost His Daughter and I Lost My Son
In response to recent reports of measles in the United States, author Roald Dahl’s 1988 letter encouraging parents to vaccinate their children with the measles vaccine is once again circulating on social media.1 The letter, written for the Sandwell Health Authority after the release of the controversial MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine in the United […]
Why Statistical Significance is Killing Science
In 2016, the American Statistical Association1 released an editorial warning against the misuse of statistical significance in interpreting scientific research. Another commentary was recently published in the journal Nature,2 calling for the research community to abandon the concept of statistical significance. Before being published in Nature,3 the article states it was endorsed by more than 800 statisticians and […]
Vaccine Strain Measles from MMR Vaccine?
There have been at least two reported cases of children with measles in the United States this year that have turned out not to have been wild-type measles after all. The two cases involve children in Oakland County and Washtenaw County, Michigan. Both children had exhibited symptoms of measles and initially tested positive for the […]