Hundreds of Children in Pakistan Hospitalized After Getting Oral Polio Vaccine
Hundreds of children in Peshawar, Pakistan were taken to hospitals suffering from nausea and vomiting after receiving the live attenuated oral polio vaccine (OPV) on Apr. 22, 2019. The vaccinations were part of a nationwide anti-polio campaign. The incident sparked an attack against a local health facility in Peshawar by angry parents. It also led […]
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 […]
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 […]
Vaccines Marketed by Stoking Fear of Disease
Story Highlights The marketing of vaccines is one of the most aggressive public health policies today. The most common marketing strategy used by stakeholders to promote vaccines is to create a culture that fears disease. Fear-based marketing generates vaccine demand and calls into question ethical standards in journalism. One of the most visible and aggressive […]
A Scientist’s Rebuttal to the Danish Cohort Study
The MMR vaccine study recently published by Hviid et al. (2019, Annals of Internal Medicine)1 entitled, “Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study,” leaves many more serious questions than definitive answers. The authors claim that their work, “strongly supports that MMR vaccination does not increase the risk for autism, does not trigger autism in susceptible children, […]
Philippines to Charge Sanofi, Public Health Officials for Dengue Vaccine Deaths
On Mar. 1, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Philippines announced that it had found probable cause to charge six officials from French vaccine manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur, 10 Philippine health officials and officials of the country’s Food and Drug Administration and its Research Institute for Tropical Medicine with reckless impudence for causing the […]