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Fri Oct 10

• Measles not worth the risk | ajc.com: ?m in a hospital bed, gasping for breath. Through the clear plastic of an oxygen tent, I see my Mom. Her face is red and she?s crying and crying. I feel hot. Every few hours a nurse opens the oxygen tent and gives me a shot. It hurts. It?s 1959. I?m in second grade. I?d caught the measles, just like my brothers and sisters and friends. Except unlike them, my measles didn?t go away. It got worse and turned into something I?d never heard of: pneumonia. I spent a month in the hospital, survived, and spent a few more months recovering at home. But more than four million children got measles in the United States in that year and 385 died.

Sun Oct 5

• Subacute Sclerosing Panencephaliti s Information Page: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

Thu Oct 2

• Vaccine Safety - Concerns - MMR Vaccine
• Medinfo: MMR Vaccination

Wed Oct 1

• Childhood Disease Measles Deadly in Developing Nations: Measles is a common childhood disease often eclipsed in international health news by deadly HIV/AIDS and highly pathogenic avian influenza, but new measles outbreaks occurred in the United States and other countries in 2008, and every day, 600 children around the world die from the highly infectious virus.

Mon Sep 29

• CDC measles expert weighs in on vaccinations, so does Amanda Peet: Scientific American Blog

Sun Sep 21

• Measles Spreading - theage.com.au

Sat Sep 13

• New study finds no link between measles vaccine and autism

Tue Sep 9

• Debunking an Autism Theory. NYT covers the Hornig paper and slips in a little Wakefield background.: "Sadly, even after all of this, many parents of autistic children still blame the vaccine. The big losers in this debate are the children who are not being vaccinated because of parental fears and are at risk of contracting serious ? sometimes fatal ? diseases." ;

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