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Rotavirus Vaccination Success

Another blow against the anti-vaccination crowd. A post on MedPage today, reviewed by Robert Jasmer MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, quotes: The vaccine has markedly reduced hospital and emergency room visits, medical costs, and the number of cases of disease caused by rotavirus… …There’s also evidence that [...]

Posted 27 October 2008 § Health § Skepticism ‡ View Comments ° Also tagged: ,

More Anti-Vaccination Insanity

A recent article in the Daily Record posts some alarming figures: In August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported measles cases had spiked; 131 cases were reported nationwide for the first seven months of the year, compared with an average of 63 cases per year since 2000. Of the infected, 91 percent were unvaccinated, [...]

Posted 23 October 2008 § Health § Skepticism ‡ View Comments ° Also tagged:

NJCVC – Purveyors of Nonsense

What is NJCVC? So in honor of all the recent attention my blog has attracted from NJ anti-vaccinationists, I thought I’d take a moment to point out what NJCVC really is: A coalition of, at best, misinformed parents, and at worst, intellectually dishonest fear mongerers.  A quick look at their web page finds that if [...]

Posted 17 October 2008 § Health § Skepticism ‡ View Comments ° Also tagged: , ,