This Just in . . . Vaccines STILL Do Not Cause Autism

[Abdul Alhazred]

Blacks shopping organic?

Nice thought, but I don't think so.

[Pyrrho]

[Doctor X]

Do not ruin our memories, Pyrrho:

Spoiler:

Searching for all of that I found:

--J.D.

[Abdul Alhazred]

And that hippie's arm development is all out of sync with his emaciated drugged out face.

[Rob Lister]

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So the Froggies shine again:

France most skeptical country about vaccine safety

The French had less confidence in the safety of vaccines than the residents of 66 other countries recently surveyed by researchers.

A team lead by anthropologist Heidi Larson of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine conducted what it contends is “the largest survey on confidence in immunization to date,” interviewing more than 65,000 people. As the researchers report online in EBioMedicine today, 41% of respondents in France disagreed with the assertion that vaccines are safe. On average, just 12% of respondents in other nations disagreed with this statement.

“I didn’t expect France to be as negative as it was,” says Larson, who runs The Vaccine Confidence Project, a nonprofit that monitors public concerns about immunization. At the other end of the scale, only 0.2% of the respondents in Bangladesh had similar safety misgivings.

Larson notes that France recently has experienced “anxiety” about suspected but unproven links between the hepatitis B vaccine and multiple sclerosis and, separately, the human papillomavirus vaccine and side effects like fatigue in girls. France similarly had strong reservations about a flu vaccine quickly made to combat the pandemic of H1N1 in 2009. “There was a furor that the government bought so much of that vaccine and a worry that it was made too quickly and couldn’t be safe,” Larson says.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/france-most-skeptical-country-about-vaccine-safety

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Australian nurses who spread anti-vaccination messages face prosecution

Nurses and midwives who ignore scientific evidence by promoting anti-vaccination to patients and the public are being cracked down on in a tough new position statement from their industry regulator.

The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia released the vaccination standards in response to what it described as a small number of nurses and midwives promoting anti-vaccination via social media.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/20/australian-nurses-who-spread-anti-vaccination-messages-face-prosecution

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[Pyrrho]

[sparks]

Jeebus but what a little ignorance can accomplish.

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[Abdul Alhazred]

Thieved.

[Witness]

Thieved.

You're always welcome.

[Pyrrho]

http://www.startribune.com/in-minnesota ... 420786463/

Anti-vaccine groups step up outreach to Minnesota Somali families over measles outbreak
The groups' message for a meeting planned for Sunday at the Brian Coyle Community Center in Minneapolis: "The epidemic is autism, not measles."

[shemp]

As Jesus said, "The shit-for-brains you shall always have with you."

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[Pyrrho]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/measles-out ... ns-dozens/

An outbreak of measles in Minnesota has sickened more than 30 children in recent weeks, primarily in the state's large Somali-American community, where many parents avoid the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine because of unfounded fears that it causes autism.

"This has nothing to do with being Somali, it has everything to do with being unvaccinated," Kris Ehresmann, infectious disease director of the Minnesota Department of Health, told CBS Minnesota last week as the number of cases grew.

Somalis are just the latest example of a tight-knit community in which the highly contagious disease has gained a foothold in the U.S. in recent years.

"With Somalis, we know that it's a community that's been targeted for misinformation from the anti-vaccine community and so that's a bit distressing," she said.