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Subscribe for free to the America First Report newsletter. (Discern Media)—It has been a while since we’ve written about the topic of unexplained deaths among young and otherwise healthy athletes. It’s not that their frequency has been lower. On the ...

Bill Maher took presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to task on Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, over his and his running mate’s persistent efforts to spread anti-vaccine misinformation.Maher has consistently platformed RFK Jr. throughout his presidential ...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.New Hampshire could soon beat Florida—known for its anti-vaccine Surgeon General—when it comes to loosening vaccine requirements. A ...

A new study links the COVID-19 pandemic to a seasonal shift and more severe resurgences of respiratory syncytial virus in children younger than 5.New research suggests the COVID-19 pandemic is responsible for more severe resurgences of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) ...

The skepticism surrounding human vaccines has now infiltrated the pet owner community, inciting worries among vets about a potential rabies resurgence. Rabies — a virus that is almost invariably fatal — has been thrust back into the spotlight as certain ...

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is to be commended for not only doing the right thing, but also bucking political expedience in vetoing a bill that would have loosened West Virginia’s immunization requirements for children in public virtual schools, private ...

Pertussis vaccine is a necessary one, but it needs urgent improvement. In the face of pertussis outbreaks, and pertussis deaths, it is important to realise that the problem is not the anti-vaccine movement but the vaccine. The pertussis vaccine is ...

Amid a growing measles outbreak, Florida's Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, faces backlash for his controversial approach to public health, which critics say undermines efforts to control the spread. Despite increasing criticism and calls for his resignation, Ladapo's stance on ...

Andrew Bridgen was in Sweden speaking at an event hosted by Robert F Kennedy Jr’s antivax group while his young son was at home facing a medical crisis.The former Conservative MP, who has become a leading voice in the global ...

Article contentA new Angus Reid poll showed 71% of Canadians feel the anti-vaccine movement in Canada is going to lead to unnecessary illness.Article contentThis came as diseases like measles and polio, long thought to be eliminated in some countries, are ...

Disease has played a fundamental role in personal rights for thousands of years.Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness cannot exist when communities are afflicted with disease. Outbreaks of leprosy, plague, tuberculosis, polio and other communicable illnesses have led to ...

With a brief memo, Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo has subverted a public health standard that’s long kept measles outbreaks under control. On Feb. 20, as measles spread through Manatee Bay Elementary in South Florida, Ladapo sent parents a letter ...

CNN host Kasie Hunt interviewed antivax presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Although she did better than most journalists confronting him for his past antivax statements in that she played a clip of one of his antivax statements, she clearly ...

As outbreaks of measles spread throughout the world, anti-vaccine activists aren’t just urging people not to get vaccinated — they’re taking a page from a well-worn playbook, falsely downplaying the dangers from the highly contagious respiratory disease. “The truth is, ...

Vax ≠ Sickness Do recommended childhood vaccinations increase the risk of ear infections in those they're intended to protect? No, that's not true: Infectious disease experts told Lead Stories that vaccinations, such as those for diseases like influenza and pneumococcal ...

I am passionate about scientific integrity and accurate science communication. I have a PhD in Biochemistry and have taught at the college level for almost 25 years. Currently, at Fort Lewis College, I am teaching a National Institutes of Health-based ...

RSV introduced into population by polio vaccines; now Pfizer’s RSV vaccines risk harming, killing people The dreaded "new" disease known as RSV, short for respiratory syncytial virus, is the target of Pfizer's new RSV vaccine, called "Abrysvo" – but are ...

The UK was once so good at dealing with measles that in 2017 and 2021 the World Health Organization declared that we had successfully attained “elimination status” for the disease, meaning that not one endemic case had been detected in ...

It has been known for a long time that polio vaccines contained a monkey virus called the coryza virus, which was later renamed respiratory syncytial virus (“RSV”). In humans, RSV causes mild, cold-like symptoms but may be severe in a ...

People have short memories about the MMR scare 23 January, 2024 Here’s a little game you can pay on Twitter/X. When something bad happens, dig up something that your political opponents once said and blame it on them. For example, ...