GILLIAN FLACCUS / The Associated PressJan 28, 2019
The outbreak has sickened 35 people, mostly children under 10, in Oregon and Washington since Jan. 1, with 11 more cases suspected. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Roisin Davis / TruthdigJul 31, 2015
A vaccine to fight the deadly Ebola virus has been shown to be 100 percent successful in a trial conducted in Guinea. Experts say the drug is likely to put an end to the West African epidemic. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Roisin Davis / TruthdigJul 25, 2015
After 28 years of development, European regulators have given the green light to the world’s first malaria vaccine. The disease killed an estimated 584,000 people in 2013, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Roisin Davis / TruthdigJun 30, 2015
The new law will require one of the strictest vaccination regimes in the country, and California is now one of only three states that does not permit nonmedical exemptions. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Roisin Davis / TruthdigJun 26, 2015
The state of California has approved one of the toughest vaccination laws in the United States. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigApr 22, 2015
A major study published in one of the world’s leading medical journals has concluded that there is no link between the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccination and autism in children. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 6, 2015
As the number of confirmed cases of measles in the U.S. rises above 100, "Democracy Now!" speaks to a doctor, a law professor, and a legal scholar who believes her child developed autism as a result of vaccination. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 3, 2015
As scores of Americans contracted measles in the first weeks of 2015, many readers discovered a 1988 open letter from British author Roald Dahl about his 7-year-old daughter's death from the disease a quarter-century before. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigSep 17, 2014
Spurred by their shared concern that vaccinating their children will do more harm than good, parents in Los Angeles who have taken an anti-vaccination stance -- "anti-vaxxers," as those among their ranks are called -- could be putting more than their own kids' health at risk. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 12, 2014
The increase of polio in Pakistan is being linked to a secret CIA effort to hunt Osama bin Laden, in which the agency set up fake vaccination clinics in the city of Abbottabad in order to get DNA from the bin Laden family. The Taliban subsequently banned immunization efforts and carried out deadly attacks on medical workers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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