top of page
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,...
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...
Talking About Vaccines: Maybe We've Been Doing it Wrong
(Image: Coursera, "Epidemics- the Dynamics of Infectious Disease") Recently I have been working on a piece for the Bangor Daily News...
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,...
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...
bottom of page