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An enlightened conversation about vaccination, health and autonomy
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"You may choose to look the other way, but you can never say again that you did not know." - William Wilberforce
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Roald Dahl Lost His Daughter and I Lost My Son
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Published May 1, 2019 | Opinion
In response to recent reports of measles in the United States, author Roald Dahl's 1988 letter encouraging parents to vaccinate their children with the measles vaccine is once again circulating on social media. The letter, written for the Sandwell Health Authority after the release of the controversial MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine in the United Kingdom, chronicles the ordinary course of his daughter Olivia's measles and her subsequent death in 1962 from measles encephalitis.
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Do Vaccines Often Cause Serious Side Effects?
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Published May 2, 2019 | Risk & Failure Reports
A new poll by the European Commission's (EC) Special Eurobarometer on Vaccines found that 48 percent of European surveyed believe that vaccines often produce serious side effects, compared with 41 percent who don't. The face-to-face poll of 27,524 respondents was conducted by European market research firm Kantar between Mar. 15 and Mar. 29, 2019 at the request of the EU's Directorate General for Health and Safety. In more than half of the 28 countries in the European Union (EU), including France and the United Kingdom, at least...
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Effectiveness of Measles Vaccine Questioned in South Sudan
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Published May 2, 2019 | Risk & Failure Reports
Since January 2019, there have been 750 cases of measles reported in South Sudan-a country embroiled in a civil war during the past years. The recent outbreak of measles has led many health officials and parents in South Sudan to question the viability of the measles vaccine. John Garang Ajak, the uncle of two boys in South Sudan who died from measles, noted, "Those kids were vaccinated but they died. It makes me wonder if the vaccine is working." He said that two other vaccinated children in his family also contracted measles.
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State Bills Propose Full Disclosure of Vaccine Side Effects
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Published May 2, 2019 | State Legislatures
Numerous bills have been introduced in state legislatures throughout the United States that seek to preserve parental rights with regard to vaccination. States that have proposed legislation to ensure that parents have the information they need to give informed consent to vaccination include Arizona, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Illinois, Mississippi, Montana, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. One example is Arizona's Senate Bill (SB) 1115, which would require that prior to vaccination, vaccine administrators...
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| Influencing the Medical Establishment | Dr. Peter Rost
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Published May 2, 2019 | Best in Video
Everybody that I've encountered in my former career as a pharmaceutical executive are out there with their hands out. Everybody's begging for money. Nobody has any money. The government doesn't have any money. Universities don't have money. The only ones that have money are these big multinational corporations. And they have lots of money. And they use that money to, basically, buy influence. And the way it's done is, number one, you give these organizations and institutions grants for various kinds of research. You develop research together with them. You establish friends, you make sure that they become beholden to you.
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