Prolonged Psychological Fear Based on Unfounded/Distorted Claims:
Vaccines - a.k.a. The Great Autism Scare
- Misconceptions about Immunization
- Vaccine Vindication: Thimerosal Not Linked With
Autism
- The Anti-Immunization Activists: A Pattern of Deception
- Vaccinations: What Parents Need to Know
- Top Ten Unfounded Health Scares of 2007 [#8 Vaccines Cause Autism]
- The Promise of Vaccines: The Science and the Controversy
- And Yet Another Study Finds No Link Between Autism and the MMR Vaccine
- ABC’s Disgrace: Artistic Freedom Doesn’t Excuse Vaccination Scaremongering
- “Leading” Scientific Experts for Vaccine-Mercury-Autism Connection Disqualified by Court for Lack of Expertise
- 75 studies that show no link between vaccines and autism
- Facts vs. Fears, A Review of the Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times by Adam Lieberman and Simona Kwon [Chapter 25 - Vaccines and Autism]
- Measles Outbreak Spreads to 15 States, Largest in 10 Years
- The Top 10 Unfounded Health Scares of 2008
- Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade
- California Study gets Vaccines Off Hook again for Autism
- Another Blow Against Anti-Vaccine Hysteria - or is it?
- MMR Doctor Andrew Wakefield Fixed Data on Autism
- How the MMR Scare Led to the Return of Measles
- U.S. Special Court: Measles Vaccine not to Blame for Autism
- A Dangerous European Export
- Allowing Personal Beliefs to Trump Public Health
- Another Decision from the ‘Vaccine Court’
- Refusing Whooping Cough Vaccine Puts Children at Risk
- Weighing the Risks of Vaccinating Children for Whooping Cough
- Twin Study Underscores Role of Genes in Autism
- Junk Science Returns to the White House
- Older parents more likely to have an autistic child
- Medical Journal Retracts Article Linking Vaccines and Autism
- British Medical Journal Retracts Autism Study
- The Damage of the Anti-Vaccination Movement
- Anti-Vaccine Studies also Threaten Homeland Security
- Measles Vaccine does not Increase Risk of Autism in Children, Reveals Polish Study
- 3 Rulings Find No Link to Vaccines and Autism
- Autism Linked to Infertility Treatments?
- U.K. Renounces Doctor, Vaccine-Autism Study
- Junk Science Kills. Who'll Apologize to Dead Kids?
- No Benefit in Delayed Immunization
- British Ban for Doctor at Heart of MMR Vaccine Row
- Autism's Possible Genetic Cause Comes to Light in New Study
- Measles from Rejecting Vaccines, and the Price Society Pays
- Whooping Cough Epidemic in California Kills 5 Babies
- State's Whooping Cough Surge may be tied to Lagging Immunization Rate
- Vaccination Rate Lags As an Epidemic Spreads
- Unlocking The Genetic Secrets Of Autism
- Vaccines: Do Your Homework
- Measles in the United States during the Postelimination Era
- Most measles cases in U.S. vaccine-preventable
- 10 infants dead in California whooping cough outbreak
- Jenny McCarthy — Childhood Vaccines DO NOT Cause Autism! It’s Time for You to Renounce Your Claim. Children’s Lives Are at Stake!
- The biggest unfounded health scares of 2010 [Scare #9]
- Since vaccine, fewer hospitalized for chicken pox
- Study Linking Vaccine to Autism Was 'Elaborate Fraud,' Journal Says
- How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed
- Why Parents Fear the Needle
- Behind the vaccine panic
- Piltdown medicine: The missing link between MMR and autism
- Wakefield to blame for measles outbreak in EU
- Strong Beliefs About Vaccines Work Both Ways
- Deadly Whooping Cough, Once Wiped Out, Is Back
- Americans' immunity to mumps less than ideal
- Measles Cases Highest Since 1996, CDC Reports
- Autism Doctor A Fraud, But Hardly Alone
- Parents, have no fear: Vaccines are here (to save the day)!
- Meningitis vaccines save infants’ lives
- On vaccines, Who should decide? (Now government rationing!)
- Vaccines save lives and $$
- Childhood vaccination rates fall as unfounded fears rise
- Dumb and dumber — in disease prevention
- Don’t play chicken with this virus
- Proving Dr. Wakefield wrong, one more study at a time
- Cutbacks Hurt a State’s Response to Whooping Cough
- 7 Real-Life Consequences of Refusing Vaccinations
- Alarming rise in measles cases
- Washington on track for pertussis outbreak
- Don’t exempt children from protection
- Vaccine preservative still safe in Africa, Asia, and here
- CDC has some explaining to do [A new trend in medicine, don't approve a new vaccine in order to save Medicare cost. I guess that's what happens when you mix politics and medicine.]
- Whooping cough cases may be most in 5 decades
- Cervical cancer still a major killer, in spite of effective vaccines
- Common genetic risk factors found for psychiatric disorders (Underlying Cause of Autism)
- No link between 'too many vaccines' and autism risk
- Yet another study disproves "autism-vaccine" link.
- HPV Vaccine—Even better than you thought
- Another reminder to get vaccinated!
- Irony anyone? A vaccine to help autistic children
- ACSH’s Top 10 Health Scares of 2014
- Fifteen years after autism panic, a plague of measles erupts
- New anti-vaccine trend could be deadly
- Avoid the whooping cough vaccine and you are putting you kids at risk
- More evidence to prove vaccines are a public health miracle
- Wakefield scandal spelled out
- Anti-vaccine movement is giving diseases a 2nd life
- No, Virginia, there’s still no vaccine-autism link
- The Case for Vaccinations in Three Stunning Charts
- Rise in autism diagnoses may be largely due to changes in diagnostic criteria
- Disneyland’s measles outbreak continues to spread, is “100 percent connected” to the anti-vaccine movement
- The Victorian Anti-Vaccination Movement
- New study confirms no link between vaccines and autism, no matter what parents may believe.
- Macaque Experiment Shows Vaccine Schedule Not Linked to Autism
- Whooping Cough Linked to Epilepsy, So Vaccinate
- Cholera In Haiti: The UN Finally Concedes What Science Showed Years Ago
- And Another ‘W’ for Vaccines
- Debunking Vaccine Myths With Dr. Paul Offit
- Bye Bye Ebola?
- Meningitis: What all parents need to know
- Like Cuffed Jeans, Mumps Are Back With No Good Reason
- The Next Plague (4) - Viruses: The Superstars Among Pathogenic Plague Microbes
- Wakefield's Lies Continue To Harm Somali Kids
- Measles Outbreak Out Of Control In Europe
- Measles Vaccine Has Saved More Than 20 Million Lives Globally Since 2000
- Measles In Europe: Italy Has 200 Times As Many Cases As U.S.
- Twitter-Storm Shuts Down The Latest And Craziest Anti-Vaccine Idea
- Matthews & Associates Pushes Anti-Vaxxer Propaganda, Junk Science
- Twitter Is Weaponized Once Again, This Time It's About Vaccination
- The French Are Scared Of Vaccines, As Measles Ravages Europe
- Washington Measles Outbreak Shows Anti-Vaxxers Are Literally Making Us Sick
- How Organic Consumers Association Colludes With Russian Trolls
This scare is aimed at depriving humanity of a valuable weapon in the war against major diseases and plagues. Each year there are 45 million cases of measles worldwide reported resulting in the premature death of 600,000 children. Hepatitis B has infected 2 billion people alive today, of whom 400 million are chronically infected and therefore at a higher risk of death from liver disease. As a result, six hundred thousand to a million Hepatitis B carriers die each year. Tuberculosis, once regarded as virtually under control, is making a deadly comeback. One third of the worlds population (1.7 billion people) are or have been infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB). There are 8 million additional infections each year. TB causes 1.7 million deaths annually. Each year about 100,000 diphtheria cases are reported worldwide which produces 8,000 deaths. Influenza (flu) kills tens of millions of people in pandemic years and hundreds of thousands in non-pandemic years. There are about 300,000 - 600,000 neonatal tetanus deaths each year cutting short the lives of pregnant women and newborns. There are 60 million cases of pertussis each year resulting in 355,000 deaths. Vaccines annually prevent almost 6 million deaths worldwide. In the United States, for the nine diseases controlled by vaccines there has been a 99% decrease in incidences accompanied by a similar decline in mortality and disease sequelae.
What say yeah, Scarecrow? I say "this activist movement has no brain."
"What they need is a little courage!"
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