If Parents Won't Give Their Kids Vaccines, Will They Give Their Child A Drug For Measles?

Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 17:33 in Health & Medicine

Though measles outbreaks remain somewhat under control, they aren't going down. Deaths have held steady at around 150,000 per year since 2007. The developing world can get something of a pass for not being able to contain measles. In anti-science hotbeds like the coasts in America and some countries in Europe, it's unforgivable. What was once only the domain of religious fundamentalists is now dominated by wealthy elites who count on the herd immunity of commoners to protect their children and refuse to vaccinate. But that clearly does not work. read more

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