Measles outbreaks and the debate over how far we should go requiring vaccination

Whenever we discuss vaccines and vaccine hesitancy, thanks to Andrew Wakefield the one vaccine that almost always comes up is the MMR, which is the combined measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. In 1998, Wakefield published a case series of cherry-picked patients in which he strongly inferred that the MMR vaccine was associated with autism and “autistic enterocolitis.” Of…

Source: Respectful Insolence - October 6, 2016 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Antivaccine nonsense Bioethics Complementary and alternative medicine Politics Quackery Amish Ohio SB 277 school vaccine mandate Source Type: blogs