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 […]
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 […]
Babies Die in India After Getting “5-in-1” Vaccine
Two babies, aged six and eight weeks, died on Mar. 7, 2019 within 24 hours of receiving a “5-in-1” pentavalent vaccination at a primary health care center in Hyderabad, India. Another 32 children who received the vaccine came down with fever and at least four of them were reported to be in serious condition. All […]
Mumps-like Parotitis Strikes Crew of U.S. Navy Ship
The U.S. Navy’s amphibious warship the U.S.S. Fort McHenry (LSD-43) has been quarantined at sea for more than two months due to an outbreak of a mumps-like disease known as parotitis among its crew.1 CNN has reported that 25 sailors and Marines aboard the ship have been diagnosed with parotitis, which is characterized by inflammation […]
Equine Flu Shuts Down British Racing World
Story Highlights When three fully vaccinated horses tested positive for equine flu earlier in February, the British racing world was shut down for a week. After canceling all racing for six days and testing thousands of horses at hundreds of horse stables in England and Ireland, three more cases were identified at the original yard […]