by PediaBlog | Apr 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
“What’s with all the anti-vaxxers out there?” I’ve been asked a lot recently, as if the people who spread cynical, science-free anti-vaccine propaganda on TV, in print, and all over social media suddenly materialized out of thin air....
by PediaBlog | Apr 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
(CDC — Updated 3/28/19) In January, we checked in on Clark County, Washington after Governor Jay Inslee declared a public health emergency because of a measles outbreak. Vaccine hesitancy and refusal were threatening to turn back decades of remarkable...
by PediaBlog | Mar 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
“Because we know that sometimes, an essential oil is better than science,” Sara Petty doesn’t waste time finding “the best vaccination alternatives already on the market”: There aren’t any. Vaccinate your children. Dr....
by PediaBlog | Mar 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
If you missed the story in the news about the unvaccinated young man who, when turning 18 years old, defied his mother’s wishes and got himself immunized, Jamie Ducharme gets you caught up: Lindenberger, who said his mother is an anti-vaccine advocate who...
by PediaBlog | Mar 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
When I was a medical student in the mid-1980s, I was called down to the emergency department by the head of the Department of Infectious Diseases. When I arrived, a group of fellow students were huddled around a fairly frightened and shivering little girl who may have...
