anti-vaccination

Studying Anti-Vaccination Activists on the World Wide Web

ResearchBlogging.org The paper I'm about to present was written in 2002, and in the fast-paced world of the internet may seem out of date - after all, Youtube hadn't even been invented then, and Wikipedia and Google were shiny new businesses. But in fact, Davies et al's study of anti-vaccination websites is as relevant today as it was then - perhaps even more so [1].

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Dr Richard Halvorsen On Vaccines

The Daily Mail has followed yesterday's article (about the death of a young girl following vaccination against HPV) with one today from Dr Richard Halvorsen. Halvorsen's article is headlined "Dr Richard Halvorsen: I'm not opposed to jabs but there are serious worries."

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Cervarix: MMR the Sequel? (Update 3)

Statistically speaking, the story that broke last night was tediously inevitable. 1.4 million doses of the Cervarix vaccine have been administered to teenage girls since the program began, and eventually - whether by chance or adverse reaction - one person was bound to die. Yesterday, for whatever reason, that teenage girl was Natalie Morton, and my sympathies go out to her kith and kin. Her death, and the manner of its reporting, will affect public health in ways she'll never know.

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