WHO Declares Polio ‘Public Health Emergency’

Staff / Truthdig May 6, 2014 The World Health Organization warned Monday that polio has re-emerged as a public health emergency, after new cases of the crippling disease began surfacing and spreading across borders from countries such as Syria and Pakistan. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Why We Still Fear Vaccines

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 9, 2013 Writing in Harper’s Magazine, author and mother Eula Biss places the common American fear of vaccination within a history of religion and midwifery, the anxieties of social class, “debates over the integrity of science” and the decision whether to vaccinate her own son. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )