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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...
What Four Worms Told us About Evolution and Infectious Disease
This short video shows the agent of African eyeworm disease, Loa loa, via bright field wet mount microscopy. This video was capture by...
Jenner and Hippocrates: a Perspective on Vaccines for Small Pox Day
Bathroom Art at UNECOM featuring"Before the Shot", by Norman Rockwell This print of a Norman Rockwell painting and the Hippocratic Oath...
What Might Have Been: MMR Vaccines are not linked to Autism, and This News Infuriates Me.
Today, news stories abound with the findings from a study involving 95,000 children: MMR vaccines do not cause autism. Why am I not...
Happy 60th, Polio Vaccine
April 12, 1955, 60 years ago today, a much celebrated medical breakthrough was announced. Before this breakthrough, those suffering from...
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