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Minneapolis reports three more measles cases

Friday, March 18th, 2011

In Minneapolis reports three more measles cases, the Minneapolis Star Tribune discusses, well, three more measles cases in the city. Why bring this up here? Three more children under the age of five have developed cases of measles in Minneapolis, state health officials reported Thursday, including two Somali children who were not vaccinated because of [...]

Posted in Autism, MMR, News, Somali, Vaccines, Wakefield | 4 Comments »

Autistic Somali man denied return to Canada

Friday, August 21st, 2009

If true, this is a travesty of justice. According to a recent story in CBC news, a naturalized Canadian citizen has been stuck in Nairobi for three years. The man, Abdihakim Mohammed, is 25 years old, and autistic. Here’s the story, in brief: Mr. Mohammed was born in Somalia and emigrated to Canada with his [...]

Posted in Autism, Somali | 10 Comments »

Autism Minnesota Somali community see through anti-vaccine brigade

Friday, May 29th, 2009

In November last year, David Kirby wrote a Huffington Post entry about the Minnesota Somali autism situation saying: In fact, one of the most obvious “environmental” differences between Minnesota and Somalia is mass vaccination… And of course, the Age of Autism site, made many proclamations about the Somali community and vaccines: Somali parents, I offer [...]

Posted in Action Groups, Advocacy, Age of Autism, Autism, Autism Science Foundation, Parenting, Somali, Vaccines | 10 Comments »

Are the Minnesota Somalis political pawns?

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Let me start out by saying I hope a good answer is found for the high number of Somali children getting special education services in MN under the autism label. The only way to do that properly will take time, money and cooperation from the Somali community. That said, I will admit that I have [...]

Posted in Age of Autism, Autism, Generation Rescue, Somali | 13 Comments »