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Infectious News
News and Information on Infectious Diseases
Two Anti-Vaccine Stories from Mainstream Sources have been Walked Back. It’s Already too Late.
The past few days have been remarkable in the fight against vaccine-preventable diseases, and not for good reasons. Two stories broke,...
Measles Free Declaration
The following is the verbatim text of the endemic measles declaration from the Pan American Health Organization. The declaration was...
Measles In the Backyard
Severe rubeola (measles rash) (image accessed: www.entmags.org ) For the fourth time this year (that would be one per month, if anyone is...
One is too Many
Though it has faded from the headlines to some extent, new measles cases continue to be diagnosed in the US following a large,...
It Turns Out that Calling People Idiots is Ineffective
Comic by Emily Flake, The New Yorker A friend of mine recently suggested that perhaps humor was a good way to do a little scientific...
The Price of Willful Ignorance
For the second time in as many years, the United States has an active measles outbreak. This is inarguably due to elective omission of...
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