During the 1989–1991 outbreak, measles was an issue of poverty. Now it’s a personal choice. View this image › Getty Images / Joe Raedle / Via gettyimages.com In response to the current measles outbreak, public health officials and the media have struggled to understand who anti-vaccination parents are. Where do they live? (Orange County.) What […]
“It really is almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunised.” 1. In 1962, Roald Dahl, the much-loved author of Matilda, The Witches, The BFG, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, among others, lost his eldest daughter, Olivia, to measles. Getty Images Ronald Dumont roalddahl.com 2. Twenty-four years later, Dahl wrote this […]
Her answer shows the power of a trusted doctor. “I was totally pro-vaccines, really, until Dr. Taylor.” View this image › Virginia Hughes People are always shocked to learn that I wasn’t vaccinated as a baby. I’m a science journalist, after all, and studied neuroscience in college. I believe in science, and science is unequivocal […]