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In a letter in today’s Chicago Tribune—in response to an August 25th story, Kids’ vaccinations face risky resistance, Alexander Anderson—who notes that he’s worked with autistic children for more than six years—writes:
I know I’d rather have a child with autism than have a child who runs the risk of carrying, dying from or transmitting a […]
Measles and mumps are back.
There are literally billions of parents all over the world that would literally give their lives for the opportunity to have their children vaccinated against measles. Perhaps it is yet another symptom of our wealth in this country that we have the luxury of wondering whether it is necessary to vaccinate.
Writes […]
Why is the rate of autism in Somali children in Minnesota so high?
A few weeks ago, the Minnesota Post addressed this question. The August 24th Star-Tribune also reported on this “cluster of affected kids”; state and federal officials are investigating.
In Minneapolis, fears have been fueled by some puzzling statistics. Last year, Somali children made up […]
On the one hand, you have to give the “anti-vaccine/pro-vaccine-safety” folks some credit for, it seems, disseminating their belief that autism can be linked to vaccines or something in vaccines. As noted in numerous news sources last week, it seems that many parents are opting out of vaccinating their children. The result has been hardly […]
Pathophilia succinctly describes the CDC’s MMWR report and takes a closer look at the 131 cases of measles reported from January-July of this year. Writes Pathophilia:
The overwhelming majority of these cases were imported* (13%) or linked to imported disease (76%). (It is important to note that the number of imported measles cases in the United […]
Measles cases are at their highest level in a decade, and is looming dread of autism at least partially responsible for this?
There is a myth about vaccines and autism out there; the myth arose after a certain British doctor published a certain study linking the MMR vaccine to autism. A number of the authors of […]
Is the media addicted to controversy—as in the notion that the MMR vaccine could be linked to autism—and is this potentially seriously damaging to people’s health? So Peter Wilby asks in today’s Guardian:
Nearly all journalists aspire to emulate two stories: the Watergate scandal, which brought down a US president; and the thalidomide scandal, which, […]
Couple of weeks ago the Minnesota Post did an article on rates of autism in Somali children in Minneapolis, with the suggestion that “something” about being in the US was causing higher rates of autism. Today’s Raleigh News-Observer also reports on autism in the children of recent immigrants to the US, but with an […]
Much happened over the past two weeks but I want most of all to think about Evan Kamida, who passed away on July 24, just a few days shy of his eighth birthday. Please keep his mother Vicki Forman and Evan’s family in your thoughts and prayers—-and to honor his memory, here’s a small and […]
Today’s MinnPost.com reports that “First generation U.S.-born Somali-speaking children in Minneapolis schools are disproportionately identified as having autism.” There are 15,000 to 40,000 Somalis living in Minnesota, a 2001 state health department study reports. According to the Minnesota Department of Education:
in the Minneapolis’ early childhood and kindergarten programs, more than 12 percent of the students […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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