MMR Whistleblower
When I showed up to start work at Merck, they were dealing with a potential product recall. It wasn’t just something that was casually discussed, it was a sky-is-falling level event. The crisis surrounded Merck’s blockbuster selling MMR vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella and worries that it might be defective. It was the end […]
The Science and Politics of Eradicating Measles
In this special report on measles and measles vaccine, NVIC Co-founder and President Barbara Loe Fisher asks, What’s Going On With Measles? and reviews the history of measles and measles vaccine in the U.S. As measles outbreaks are being reported in the U.S. in March 2025, she reveals the facts about the vaccine’s risks and failures […]
Vaccination Rates Decline Worldwide
Vaccination rates have significantly decreased around the world from pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, according to a 2023 immunization coverage report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF last month. The report, released on July 14, 2024, is the world’s most extensive dataset on vaccination trends targeting 14 diseases. This report analyzed estimates from 185 […]
More Parents in U.K. Refuse Childhood Vaccinations
In late 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that there had been a decline in state required vaccines from 95 percent to 93 percent among kindergarteners during the 2020-2021 school year compared to the 2019-2020 school year.1 2 Now, public health officials in the United Kingdom also are reporting lower […]
Study Finds Measles Vaccine Far More Likely to Fail in C-Section Babies
According to a new study published in Nature Microbiology, babies born via Caesarean section (C-section) are likely to fail to respond to one dose of the live attenuated MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine. In fact, researchers found it is 2.6 times more likely that the vaccine is ineffective for babies who are born via C-section […]
Measles Outbreak in Chicago Migrant Shelter Reveals at Least 28 Percent Were Vaccinated
Following identification of 15 cases of measles in a Chicago shelter that houses migrants from Venezuela, city public health officials announced on Mar. 20, 2024 that “measles is circulating in our city. And it’s why we are putting a call out for everyone who is at risk to protect themselves now” by getting a measles-mumps-rubella […]