What Doctors Don't Tell YouEven 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 ...
Measles may be good for children after all. Researchers have discovered that African children who catch measles tend to suffer less from allergic conditions, such as asthma, eczema and hay fever. ...
Recently, I read that India has just reported the outbreak of a deadly form of encephalitis among adults in Siliguri, West Bengal (BMJ, 2001; 322: 693). Outbreaks of illnesses in India aren't unu ...
More on the vaccine front. The Department of Health is applying more pressure in its campaign to have immunization start and finish earlier, so that babies are to first get jabbed at two months ...
Q My nine-year-old daughter is just recovering from a bad bout of measles. With this, she had an ear infection and conjunctivitis, and this is clearing up, but her cough seems to be lingering. I’m worried that her weakened immune system may not be...
As most of our British readers have no doubt heard, last month the UK Department of Health announced the hasty withdrawal of two brands of the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. ...
Over 30 years of use, the measles vaccine has never adequately protected children. In fact, it has only made measles a more dangerous disease. ...
An important paper published in 1987 shed light on the role of vitamin A supplements in preventing mortality from measles. In the Mvumi Hospital in central Tanzania, 180 children admitted with mea ...
Vitamin A therapy lessens the complications or the chances of dying from severe childhood measles. ... ...
