measles

A multidisciplinary team from Texas just published their work in PLOS Medicine on U.S.

The anti-vaccine movement is not limited just to the United States. Anti-vaxxers are influential in Europe, and the results have been entirely predictable: Europe is in the grip of a measles outbreak.

It's a shocking number. Last year, nearly 90,000 people around the world died from measles.

Measles outbreaks create a lot of fear (and frustration) in people. 

Even though his original article on the supposed connection between the MMR vaccine and autism has been retracted, and Andrew Wakefield has lost his medical license for his fraudulent data, he continues to spread his poisonous opinions about the s

Although there are measles outbreaks occurring all over the world at the moment (sigh), Italy's outbreak is of particular concern. 

Good news. Important information on vaccines is getting through to Americans – and that's a big win for science and public health in the United States.

When a measles outbreak occurred at Disneyland roughly two years ago, anti-vaccine activists mocked it.

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OK, everyone, let's take an informal poll.