A great post over at Change.org asks the question and delivers the right answer – yes, yes they did. It also targets the right org as being responsible – Barbara Loe Fischer’s anti-vaccine group NVIC. Whooping cough is making a comeback. This summer, the highly contagious upper respiratory infection struck more than 6,000 people in [...]
Archive for the ‘Whooping cough’ Category
An example of how alternate vaccine schedules endanger children
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010With apologies—this post has nothing to do with autism except in pointing out where groups like Generation Rescue give out bad advice. There is an outbreak of pertussis (whooping cough) in California right now. It looks to be a major outbreak, possibly the largest in fifty years—since vaccination was implemented. Generation Rescue has a number [...]
One reason why I vaccinate
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010I know this isn’t at all autism related, but this story just keeps bugging me. South Bend couple loses baby to pertussis The story is heartbreaking. A couple has fertility problems and tries for years to have a baby. But the couple’s desire to have children soon turned to heartache as Katie suffered miscarriage after [...]
Lessons from the Vaccine–Autism Wars
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009A very interesting (and long) read from Public Library of Science (PLoS) entitiled A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine–Autism Wars was published today. It takes apart the history of the vaccine/autism wars and tries to involve scientists on why they think – or what their particular discipline leads them to conclude – the autism/vaccine [...]
- TPGA: IMFAR 2012: An Update on the ASD DSM-5 Recommendations
- Some first-hand reports from IMFAR
- Adult Outcomes in Autism: A Prospective Longitudinal Examination of the Effects of Early Intensive Intervention: A 20 Year Follow-Up
- ASAN: Urge For the Ban on Aversives in Massachusetts!
- Study Finds Early Childhood Educators Can Effectively Screen Students For Autism In Underserved Communities
- The Implications of DSM V: Changes in Diagnostic Outcomes in An Adult Clinical Sample Re-Diagnosed According to the Proposed DSM V
- IMFAR 2012 begins
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- J.B. Handley Forsworn
- The blogger and the doctor
- Md. suspends autism doctor's license
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- The Crash and Burn of an Autism Guru
- Health experts stress importance of MMR
- Todd Drezner: Learning to Embrace Autism
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- The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear -- Grinker 168 (3): 332 -- Am J Psychiatry
- Jenny McCarthy: Still Sticking with Debunked Autism Theory and Using ‘Mob Mind’ as Excuse
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