What Doctors Don't Tell YouI live in Nairobi, Kenya, where the measles virus is, according to local well respected pediatricians, more virulent than in Europe. Two weeks ago, my 20 month old unvaccinated son contracted mea ...
Health enjoys more than its fair share of urban myths. One, that is repeated almost parrot-fashion by anyone you might meet, is that TB is on the increase. Like most urban myths, it's not true, of course - in fact, according to the latest figures...
The first chill winds of autumn have brought in the traditional round of health scares, courtesy of the various government agencies. First to come rolling in is the fear that Britain - and especially London - now faces a measles epidemic because the...
The second National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine report on vaccines again has concluded that virtually all the vaccines given children have been proven to cause damage.
MMR: It's safe, but then again. . .
Finally, in the vaccine debate, the British government has been blatantly caught with its trousers down. ...
MMR: the vaccine that just won’t go away
Something odd is happening with measles. First of all, despite the fact that the UK has in place the triple measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, and enjoys an extraordinarily high coverage of vacc ...
Even though there was a mass measles and rubella vaccination campaign in 1994 in the UK, the number of cases of rubella (German measles) in Scotland is standing at a 13 year high. ...
Doctor columnists and government officials in all the major papers in Britain lately have been whipping up vaccine fever, even before the measles epidemic, predicted to hit this autumn, has struck ...
