New Jersey Bill Requires Automatic Enrollment in State Electronic Vaccine Tracking Registry
Lawmakers in New Jersey have approved legislation that would require enrollment in the state’s electronic vaccine tracking registry, unless citizens actively opt out in writing. The bill for an “opt-out” vaccine tracking system, rather than operating an “opt-in” system, comes in response to decreased vaccination rates in recent years and health officials maintain it will […]
Another Texas Child Dies After Recovering from Measles
A licensed Texas physician with significant experience successfully treating measles during the current outbreak is reporting a second tragic death of a chronically ill child who had been previously infected with measles in a Texas hospital. Similar to the recent unfortunate death widely but incorrectly reported as primarily caused by measles rather than complicated by […]
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 […]