Toddler in China Dies Day After MMR Vaccination
A two-year-old boy with the surname Hu died on Nov. 28, 2018 in China’s Hunan province. The child lost consciousness a day after being vaccinated with the MMR (mumps, measles, rubella) vaccine at a health center in the Chinese city of Changsha (Kaifu district) and was rushed to the hospital, but doctors were not able to revive […]
Why Most Vaccine Reactions Aren’t Reported
I did see a couple of reactions [to the influenza vaccine], and they were so dramatic that everyone knew it was from the vaccine. And at that point we just thought.. well, this just happens sometimes. We considered it no different from any other drug that you can react to, so that was how it […]
NY State Senator Dies of Sepsis
Eight-year-old Amely Baez of LeFrank City, New York died on Feb. 5, 2018 of “flu-related” symptoms, according to local health authorities. Published reports did not indicate whether the child had received the influenza vaccine.1 New York State Senator José Peralta (D-East Elmhurst) said Amely’s death was tragic and that it “reminds us of how dangerous the […]
Medical Freedom & Vaccine Choice Just “Phony Nonsense”?
In an opinion piece in the Houston Chronicle titled “Why I’m standing up to the anti-vaccine nonsense,” pediatrician and vaccine developer Peter Hotez, MD, PhD sought to explain his reasoning for declaring himself the primary antagonist of parents defending the moral and legal right to make informed, voluntary medical care decisions, including vaccine decisions, for […]
CDC Creates AFM Task Force
On Nov. 19, 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the creation of the Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) Task Force aimed at looking for the cause of AFM—a mysterious polio-like illness that involves inflammation of the spinal cord and primarily paralyzes healthy children—and improving treatment and outcomes for individuals suffering with AFM. […]
Virus Enzyme Found in MMR Vaccine
BACK TO THE FUTURE: Following is an article from TVR’s historical archives published in the November/December 1995 print edition. Swiss scientists have reported finding an enzyme, reverse transcriptase, in the live measles and mumps vaccine, which has been traced back to chickens whose cells are used to create the vaccines.1 Reverse transcriptase (RT), which copies RNA into […]