Why Target Vaccines?

Anti-vaccination campaigners have reached the forefront of the news. When a public health issue has reached the Jimmy Kimmel show, you know that it has reached the "big time." Seth Mnookin wrote the book The Panic Virus: The True Story of the Vaccine-Autism Controversy. Both Kimmel and Mnookin mentioned Jenny McCarthy, who has been quite vocal about her concerns about vaccines. More measles outbreaks have occurred in the past year than in the past decade, with the majority occurring among unvaccinated children. Buzzfeed asked vaccine expert Kate O'Brien of the International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to comment on the safety and utility of vaccines. A mother's angry Facebook post about anti-vaccine campaigners went viral. Someone even wrote "Melanie's Marvelous Measles," a children's book which, according to the Amazon website author description, "was written to educate children on the benefits of having measles and how you can heal from them naturally and successfully." To date, the book has received over 1,100 one-star reviews on the Amazon website. (One of the one-star reviews continues by saying "If you enjoyed this book, check out these other fine titles from the same author" and lists a slew of titles such as Bennett's Breathtaking Boil, Carol's Colorful Chlamydia, Hillary's Hilarious HIV, and Manuel's Magnificent Meningitis.) A major question is: Why have anti-vaccination campaigners targeted vaccines for autism...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news