Robert F Kennedy Jr. Is Dead Wrong About Vaccines
Joe Rogan, America’s most popular podcaster, recently called for Professor Peter Hotez, an internationally recognized pediatric infectious disease doctor and vaccine scientist, to come on his podcast to debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.), a prolific spreader of medical disinformation. Rogan even offered to donate $100,000 to a charity of Hotez’s choice if he agreed to the debate. Hotez declined—instead offering to be a guest on Rogan’s show to discuss vaccine science.
Hotez is right not to take the bait. Rogan is unqualified to moderate such a debate, and has himself peddled disinformation about...
Source: TIME: Health - June 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Edward Nirenberg and Gavin Yamey Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news
South Africa: Experts Stress Importance of Vaccinating Children in Wake of Measles, Mumps and Diphtheria Outbreaks
[Daily Maverick] In recent months, there have been outbreaks in South Africa of vaccine-preventable diseases including measles, mumps and diphtheria. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 22, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
South Africa: Measles and Whooping Cough Outbreaks in South Africa - a Sign of Low Vaccination Coverage, Experts Warn
[The Conversation Africa] The concentrated global effort to use vaccination as a public health intervention began in 1974. Since then, vaccination has changed our lives. Worldwide, in the decades 2000-2020, childhood vaccination led to the reduction of deaths in children under 5 by 50% to 5.4 million deaths per year. Vaccination currently averts more than 5 million deaths each year worldwide. These are deaths that would have been caused by measles, whooping cough, tetanus, polio, diphtheria, pneumonia, rotavirus diarrhoea, and othe (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 15, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
South Africa: Don't Fall for Unfounded Scare Claims About Measles Vaccination
[Africa Check] An article by a prominent anti-vaccine campaigner in South Africa and widely circulated on social media makes many baseless claims. But even the hint of doubt could be enough to undermine safe vaccines. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 12, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Source Type: news
South Africa: In-Depth - Are Measles, Mumps, and Diphtheria Outbreaks Harbingers of Worse to Come?
[spotlight] So far this year the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has issued reports on three different outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases - measles, mumps, and diphtheria. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 12, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine South Africa Southern Africa Sustainable Development Source Type: news
2022 Marks Most Violent Year Against Health Workers in Conflicts: Report
June 05, 2023Anew report published by the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) documents 1,989 attacks and threats against health care facilities and personnel across 32 countries and territories in armed conflict and situations of political violence throughout 2022. The reported figure represents the most severe year of attacks against health care in the last decade globally. Over half of all attacks were reported in just two countries, Ukraine and Myanmar. The report identifies more than 750 attacks perpetrated by the Russian Federation on health care in Ukraine alone–the most committed in a single year...
Source: IntraHealth International - June 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbales Tags: Policy & Advocacy Health in Conflict Health Workers Source Type: news
Virtually ouch-free: Promising early data on a measles vaccine delivered via sticker
Vaccine experts are excited about new clinical trial results for a device that delivers measles vaccine via a "microarray" patch — no syringe needed. (Image credit: Micron Biomedical ) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - May 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Fran Kritz Source Type: news
Nigeria: Closing the Gap - Partnering for 'The Big Catch-Up' On Routine Immunisation in Nigeria
[Nigeria Health Watch] Routine immunisation (RI) plays a critical role in reducing morbidity and mortality among children under five, as vaccine-preventable diseases such as tuberculosis, measles, and pneumonia are among the leading causes of mortality of under-five children in developing countries like Nigeria. With pneumonia alone claiming the lives of over 800,000 children annually, ensuring adequate RI coverage becomes critical in preventing these deaths. Therefore, prioritising and sustaining high immunisation coverage leve (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 26, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Malawi: Ministry of Health Upbeat to Surpass 9 Million Children in Vaccination Campaign
[Nyasa Times] Officials from Ministry of Health are upbeat they will surpass the nine million children target for the integrated mass immunisation campaign against typhoid, Polio, measles and rubella. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 22, 2023 Category: African Health Source Type: news
The Real Reason Behind Conservatives ’ Shifting Views on Childhood Vaccines
In a new study released by Pew Research Center, the percentage of Republicans who said parents should be able to forego the MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccine for their public school children, even if it may create a health risk for others, more than doubled from 20% in 2019 to 42% in 2023. White evangelical Protestants showed a nearly identical pattern with the percentage supporting parents’ decision not to vaccinate their children despite the health risk to others doubling from 20% to 40%.
This is obviously concerning. Measles cases in the U.S. spiked in 2019 to levels we hadn’t seen in decades. Studie...
Source: TIME: Health - May 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Samuel L. Perry Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news
The Most Effective Way to Get Through to Parents Who Won ’ t Vaccinate Their Kids
This study tells us that parents really value what they hear from other parents who they trust when it comes to decisions about vaccinating their children,” says Marie Heffernan, lead author of the paper and assistant professor in the department of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. “The current study was in the context of the COVID-19 vaccine for children, but we can think about this in terms of other routine childhood vaccinations as well.”
Not all of the findings were uniform across the sample group. Ethnicity, in particular, made a difference. In the “trusted pare...
Source: TIME: Health - May 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Vaccines Source Type: news
Vaccines: Pre-school uptake in Northern Ireland in steady decline, report says
Around 15,000 children are not fully immunised against measles, mumps and rubella, a report finds. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - May 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Parents should check MMR vaccine records as measles cases rise, says UKHSA
Public health officials are urging parents to check their children are up to date with MMR vaccinations after signs of a rise in measles cases. The latest figures from 1 January to 20 April this year show 49 cases of measles compared to 54 cases in the whole of 2022, the UK Health Security Agency... Read moreThe post Parents should check MMR vaccine records as measles cases rise, says UKHSA appeared first on Nursing in Practice. (Source: Nursing in Practice)
Source: Nursing in Practice - May 4, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Wiliam Hunter Tags: Vaccinations Vaccinations and infections Source Type: news
Parents urged to check children's MMR vaccine records following rise in measles cases
Parents are being asked to check children are fully up to date with their measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccinations by checking their vaccine record in their red book. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - May 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Rise in UK measles cases causing concern
Parents encouraged to check their children are up to date with their vaccinations. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - May 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
