2019 Vaccine Awareness Week—Interview with Barbara Loe Fisher
It’s been an incredible year, an unprecedented year. In this country, the assault on vaccine exemptions has covered the whole country. The National Vaccine Information Center has monitored more than 500 vaccine-related bills that have been introduced in the states this year that we have actively reported on and issued action alerts, in many cases, […]
Are Vaccinations Safe for Your Kids?
This is Lynn and her son Jeremy, who has autism—a disabling brain affliction. But at 18 months old, he had a 10-word vocabulary and was growing normally. Then, two days after he received a shot for diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus, he was in the hospital. He was running a fever of 103 and he […]
The Truth About Pet Vaccines
Needless to say that if your children are vaccinated, you eventually stop. Dogs and cats receive vaccine almost always at six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 16 weeks, a booster at one year of age and then annually thereafter, which ends up being a tremendous amount of vaccine over a lifetime. Not to mention that once […]
Is Merck’s Measles Vaccine Monopoly a Cause for Concern?
First, how did Merck become the country’s sole supplier of these measles vaccines, and is that a problem? Well, is it a problem depends on who you talk to. But Merck became the sole supplier because the vaccine market is highly concentrated. It’s incredibly expensive to make vaccines. It takes a lot of time to […]
My Son Was Harmed by the DPT Shot | Barbara Loe Fisher
I was a first-time mom. [I had] a little boy in 1980, when I took him in for a fourth DPT shot. And back then, parents hadn’t been told anything about vaccines, the fact that they could cause reactions, injuries, deaths. So he actually had DPT and oral polio vaccine that day, and within hours […]
Harvard Lawyer’s Vaccine Injured Son
I’m also a proud father of a severely vaccine injured child. I’d like to tell you, a minute or two, about my boy. He was our first-born, perfectly healthy at birth, hitting all of his milestones. As first time parents, we were very conscious about hitting all of his pediatrician visits and staying on schedule. […]