A pediatrician and preventive medicine physician explains how measles vaccines became victims of their own success and the risk that rising outbreaks pose to everyone.
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Herd immunity to measles is waning due to vaccine hesitancy over MMR. Adult MMR is one way to help get it back up again.
Public health experts know that schools are likely sites for the spread of disease, and laws tying school attendance to vaccination go back to the 1800s.
Children may have fallen behind on their vaccination schedules during the pandemic, increasing the risk that COVID-19 may be followed by outbreaks of once-eradicated diseases.
Coronavirus is a stark reminder of what a world without vaccines would look like.
Measles infection can be easily managed with prompt health care and symptom management. But without care, mild symptoms can turn into life threatening secondary infections or long-term effects.
Studies have shown that the reasons for anti-vaccine sentiment run deep, and scientific facts don’t often matter. A new study drills deeper into reasons for resistance and possible ways to counteract them.
As measles cases surge, people blame parents who refuse to vaccinate their children. A sociologist who has studied public health says anti-vaxxers may not be so different from the rest of us.
The growing number of cases of measles has many people asking: Am I safe? A vaccine expert provides some answers.
Principales colaboradores
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Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Denver
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Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Managment, School of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Assistant Professor of Biomedicine and Health Sciences, University of Vermont
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PhD Candidate in History, University of Saskatchewan
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Research Fellow in Infectious Disease Modelling, NIHR Mucosal Pathogens Research Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor of Vaccine Epidemiology, Director HPRU in Immunisation, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Associate Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom & Clinical Epidemiologist, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme
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ED Programme Manager, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme
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Research Fellow, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme
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Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health; Dean of the Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program, Columbia School of General Studies, Columbia University
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Lecturer, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University
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Research Fellow and Instructor in Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
