Myth: No Rainbow, No Pot of Gold
Note: separate re-issue of part two of one of our myths blogs. We got a complaint that this one was too hard to find and link to. The easiest fix was to split it into a separate article. Thanks for...
View ArticlePolio and Sanitation
KHAGARIA: On the sandy banks of Kosi river in north Bihar, a quiet crowd of several hundred people is waiting in the sizzling morning sun. A speck appears in the pale blue summer sky, rapidly growing...
View ArticleVaccine sleight of hand
Every Child by Two proclaims that vaccines save money! Lots and lots of money! Childhood Vaccines Save Lives and Money Routine childhood immunization 33,000 deaths prevented $43 billion saved But then,...
View ArticleA Pox on the Taxpayer
A handful of countries recommend the chickenpox (varicella) vaccine for all children and an even smaller group have a chickenpox booster on the schedule. The US leads the pack of countries with a 2...
View ArticleDo the Right Thing!
Every August we are hit by a wave of publicity for National Immunization Awareness Month, reminding everyone in the United States to get their children vaccinated, themselves vaccinated, their parents...
View ArticleVaccine Exemption Shenanigans?
Recently we’ve come across multiple examples of local authorities messing with vaccine exemptions. Nothing new, of course, about the media publishing stories which leave out the availability of...
View ArticlePolio: Causes and Effects, Part I
We saw in our first [1] blog on polio that infection with this virus was common, but paralytic polio was rare. In our second [2] article we reviewed the history of polio and the significant number of...
View ArticlePolio: Causes and Effects Part II
Cut a hole in the immune system? During the first half of the 20th century, every parent and child feared the word “polio”. In an epidemic, it attacked male and female, black and white, from rural...
View ArticleOverinformed Refusal Has to be Stopped
And Sanofi Pasteur is taking action with their new web-site. The ImmYounity(SM) campaign provides consumer-friendly, accurate and science-based information about immunization that can be easily...
View ArticleWritten by Parents? Based on Science?
This is our second post reviewing the new pro-vaccine site brought to you by Sanofi Pasteur. In our first post we followed up on the claim that the site is science-based. In this one we’ll have a look...
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