Posts Tagged ‘vaccination’
The last year has been the worst on record in the US for measles outbreaks since the disease was declared ‘eradicated’ in 2000. Even though vaccination rates across the country are still high, (according to the CDC) there remains some communities where disinformation campaigns which claim that ‘vaccines are dangerous’ (often called ‘anti-vaxx’ campaigns) have ...
Social media-fuelled anti-vaxxer propaganda is the latest online harm the U.K. government is targeting. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today program this morning health secretary Matt Hancock said he will meet with representatives from social media platforms on Monday to pressure them into doing more to prevent false information about the safety of vaccinations from ...
Unsurprisingly it sounds like public charter schools are big anti-vaxx magnets.
Tonic:
At two public charter schools in the Sonoma wine country town of Sebastopol, more than half the kindergartners received medical exemptions from state-required vaccines last school year. The cities of Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Nevada City, Arcata, and Sausalito all had schools in which more ...
After indicating that it was exploring its options for fighting the potentially deadly rise of anti-vaccination content on its platform last month, Facebook is making a plan of attack. Facebook’s strategy in the effort is to both minimize the spread of vaccination misinformation and to point users away from inaccurate anti-vaccination propaganda and toward “authoritative ...
Amazon is under fire again for helping spread anti-vaccine conspiracies.
Four major anti-vaccination groups — National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), Age of Autism, Learn the Risk, and Physicians for Informed Consent — are raising mon... ...
Failure to vaccinate can cause death. Maybe not killing your own child, tho it is not unlikely, the awful decision to not vaccinate puts at risk all the people who for good reasons can not get the shot.
Snohomish County rocks.
MyNorthWest:
“It’s like taking a pail of gasoline and throwing a lighted match into it. I ...
A small coalition of folks who think vaccines are evil have managed to eliminate Arizona's vaccination education program. The parents were afraid their children may be forced learn that vaccines are a good thing.
Via AZ Central:
The state of Arizona has canceled a vaccine education program after receiving complaints from parents who don't immunize their ...
The word "mumps" is an old term for lumps or bumps contained on the cheeks. Mumps in minor and adult males may also result in the progress of orchitis, a swelling of the testicles. Generally, one ******** becomes enlarged and aching about 7 to 10 days after the parotids have enlarged. ...
Rubella is a transmittable disease; but, it is not as severe as measles that is why it is also known as three day measles. Another name of Rubella is German measles as in both diseases (Rubella and Measles) distinctive red spots appear on patient's body but these red spots last for only three days. Virus ...
The MMR vaccine is an inoculation that prevents you from catching the following three ailments. Measles can source ear infections, pneumonia, fits as well as soreness of the mind. Now and again it may prove lethal to life. Mumps can cause meningitis, which can cause deafness. It may well cause irritation of the pancreas, nausea ...