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| No link found between vaccine mercury and autism |
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| Reuters |
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| September 13, 2010 |
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| A new government study adds to the evidence that thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative until recently found in many vaccines, does not increase children's risk of autism. |
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| Docs urge caution as PA sees more whooping cough |
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| Associated Press |
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| August 26, 2010 |
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| State officials are encouraging parents to make sure their children's immunizations are up-to-date as school starts amid an increase in the reported cases of whooping cough. |
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| Vaccine refusals are on the rise |
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| San Diego Union Tribune |
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| August 23, 2010 |
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| Getting inoculated for diseases such as whooping cough and measles used to be a childhood rite of passage that few questioned. |
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| Vaccines still vital to protect children from serious diseases |
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| Ventura County Star CA |
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| August 10, 2010 |
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| With the recent news of an increasing number of pertussis 'whooping cough' cases, including the tragic deaths of some very young infants, this is a good time to reemphasize the important role that vaccines play in preventing some very serious diseases. |
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| Spread of Whooping Cough Raises Concerns |
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| MSN Health |
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| August 4, 2010 |
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| Amidst the largest outbreak of whooping cough in decades, public health officials in California are urging residents, particularly pregnant women and those who come into contact with infants, to make sure they're immunized for the highly contagious disease. |
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| San Diego County baby dies of whooping cough |
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| Los Angeles Times |
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| July 30, 2010 |
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| A San Diego County baby has died of whooping cough, marking the seventh death statewide in an epidemic on track to be the worst in 50 years, authorities said Thursday. |
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| Opinion: Vaccines are our best defense against some diseases |
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| By Judith S. Palfrey, M.D., President, American Academy of Pediatrics |
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| USA Today |
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| July 25, 2010 |
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| Parents make powerful choices for their children. One of the most important is the decision to give them vaccines that will protect them from deadly, disabling diseases. |
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| Infant dies of whooping cough, third confirmed death this year in L.A. county, sixth in state |
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| Los Angeles Times |
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| July 20, 2010 |
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| A third Los Angeles County infant has died of whooping cough, public health officials announced Tuesday. The confirmation of the death -- the sixth pertussis-related death this year in the state -- comes a day after the California Department of Public Health expanded criteria for those who should be vaccinated against the highly contagious disease amid what is shaping up to be the worst outbreak in 50 years. |
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| Whooping cough epidemic in California |
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| Associated Press |
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| June 23, 2010 |
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| Whooping cough is now an epidemic in California, and is on pace to break a 50-year record for infections for the year. |
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| Whooping cough cases still with us |
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| Los Angeles Times |
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| June 8, 2010 |
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| Reported cases of whooping cough have tripled since last year, according to state health officials, with the Central Valley, the San Francisco Bay Area and the Los Angeles region seeing sizable increases in infections. |
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| The End of the Autism/Vaccine Debate? |
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| Parenting Magazine |
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| June 7, 2010 |
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| On playgrounds and at playdates, it's hard to have a conversation about childhood immunizations without the word autism popping up. |
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| Vaccine refusal is putting everyone in danger |
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| Los Angeles Times |
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| June 1, 2010 |
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| Diseases such as measles and mumps are creeping back as well-meaning parents, wary of an unproven link to autism, refuse vaccines for their children, exposing them and others to a proven risk. |
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| Whooping cough still with us, still deadly |
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| Los Angeles Times |
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| May 31, 2010 |
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| Two days after her second son, Dylan, was born in 2005, Mariah Bianchi let out yet another deep-chested cough, this time in the hospital, where she was recovering from the delivery. |
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| A nasty rash |
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| The Economist UK |
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| May 27, 2010 |
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| Twelve years ago, Andrew Wakefield, a doctor at the Royal Free Hospital in London, published a paper pointing out that some children who had been vaccinated against three childhood diseasesâ€measles, mumps and rubellaâ€promptly developed inflammatory-bowel disease and autism. |
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| Cases of whooping cough double in state |
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| Los Angeles Times |
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| May 27, 2010 |
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| California health authorities say that cases of whooping cough reported to the state have more than doubled so far this year †346 cases from Jan. 1 to April 30, up from 129 cases during the same period last year. |
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| Britain Bans Doctor Who Linked Autism to Vaccine |
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| Associated Press |
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| May 24, 2010 |
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| A doctor who persuaded millions of parents worldwide that a common vaccine could cause autism was barred from practicing medicine in his native Britain on Monday after the country's top medical group found he conducted his research unethically. |
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| Infants Vulnerable to Measles Before 1st Shot |
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| HealthDay News |
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| May 19, 2010 |
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| Babies aren't scheduled to be vaccinated against measles until they turn a year old, but new research suggests that infants are vulnerable to the disease from the time they are 2 to 3 months old until they get their shot because the immunity they inherit from their mother wears off. |
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| Adults Need Vaccines Too |
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| Parenting Magazine |
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| May 13, 2010 |
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| As a parent, you've probably read up on the vaccines that your child needs, keeping a careful record to make sure that your child is up-to-date on all of his shots. |
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| Editorial: We need to uproot fear of immunizations |
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| San Francisco Chronicle |
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| April 21, 2010 |
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| On April 7, hearings began to decide whether Andrew Wakefield, the British physician whose speculative theories triggered a global vaccine scare, is guilty of serious professional misconduct. |
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| The trouble with Dr. Oz |
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| Chicago Tribune |
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| April 8, 2010 |
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| Celebrity surgeon’s goal is to offer ‘as much information as possible’ on health issues. |
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| Georgia Flu Cases Prompt for Vaccinations |
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| Associated Press |
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| March 29, 2010 |
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| Health officials are renewing their push for Americans to get swine flu vaccinations after a recent rise in hospital cases in Georgia. |
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| Editorial: Vaccines Win Again |
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| Wall Street Journal |
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| March 16, 2010 |
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| Few medical scare campaigns have done as much harm as the one claiming to link autism to vaccines for children. |
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| Vaccinations Widespread but Worrisome for Parents |
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| ABC News |
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| March 1, 2010 |
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| Nearly 90 percent of parents vaccinate their children as medically advised, but more than half still express concern over the safety of the vaccines, a survey from the University of Michigan found. |
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| South Bend Couple Loses Baby to Pertussis |
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| South Bend Tribune |
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| February 28, 2010 |
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| Medical experts say pertussis, or ‘whooping cough’ -- once believed eradicated because of modern vaccines -- is again on the rise.The bacterial infection affects the respiratory system, causing serious health complications in young children, especially infants. |
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| Swine Flu Wanes, But Experts Say Pandemic Strain Could Reemerge |
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| Washington Post |
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| February 23, 2010 |
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| Even as officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are announcing that the epidemic of the H1N1 flu is no longer widespread in any state, no disease expert is willing to say there isn't a third -- or fourth -- wave of swine flu in the country's future. |
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| Editorial: The MMR vaccine scare |
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| By Dr. Paul A. Offit |
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| Philadelphia Inquirer |
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| February 14, 2010 |
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| On Feb. 2, the Lancet, Britain's oldest and most respected medical journal, did something that journals almost never do; it retracted an article. |
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| Vaccines' Benefits Trump Concerns, Experts Say |
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| NPR: Morning Edition |
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| February 8, 2010 |
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| In 2009, there are vaccines against 13 diseases for children under the age of 2. That's excluding flu. This increase is worrisome to many parents. |
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| Opinion: The damage of the anti-vaccination movement |
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| Los Angeles Times |
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| February 5, 2010 |
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| The doctor who launched the modern anti-vaccine movement acted dishonestly and irresponsibly, Britain's General Medical Council has ruled. But fear not. Dr. Andrew Wakefield is still a hero to his many acolytes. And others, with curious credentials, fight on to terrify parents into not getting their children inoculated. |
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| Opinion: Time to Regroup on Autism |
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| CNN.com |
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| February 4, 2010 |
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| On Tuesday, the medical journal The Lancet retracted the controversial 1998 paper that linked the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism. |
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| How a Zealot’s Word Led Us Astray on Autism |
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| MSNBC.com |
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| February 3, 2010 |
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| A dozen years ago, a British physician named Dr. Andrew Wakefield published a paper in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet that did immeasurable harm to children. |
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| British doctor rebuked over research linking vaccine and autism |
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| Los Angeles Times |
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| January 29, 2010 |
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| The British doctor whose suggestion of a link between the MMR shot and autism helped cause vaccination rates to plunge conducted his now-discredited research in a dishonest and irresponsible manner, medical authorities here concluded Thursday. |
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| Doctor in MMR-Autism Scare Ruled Unethical |
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| Time Magazine |
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| January 29, 2010 |
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| Wakefield's study has since been discredited, and the MMR vaccine deemed to be safe. But now medical authorities in the U.K. have also ruled that the manner in which Wakefield carried out his research was unethical. |
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| Rotavirus vaccines could reduce deaths in Third World |
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| Los Angeles Times |
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| January 28, 2010 |
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| Vaccines that protect against severe disease and death from rotavirus infections in the United States and other developed countries work nearly as well in developing countries and should be widely employed there, researchers report today in two papers in the New England Journal of Medicine. |
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| Stars vs. Science |
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| Forbes |
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| January 14, 2010 |
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| In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control reported that measles outbreaks had spiked because more parents were deciding to leave their children unvaccinated, thanks to the burgeoning anti-vaccine movement. |
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| Another study finds no MMR-autism link |
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| Reuters |
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| January 4, 2010 |
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| Overall, the study found, children who had received the MMR vaccine actually had a lower risk of autism than their unvaccinated peers. |
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| Without Chickenpox Shot, Kids' Risk Rises Ninefold |
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| HealthDay News |
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| January 5, 2010 |
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| Children whose parents refuse to have them vaccinated for chickenpox have a ninefold greater chance of contracting the disease than those who are vaccinated, a new study finds. |
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