Vaccine preventable diseases do not have to be ‘facts of life’. Illnesses such as measles, mumps and rubella are serious and can lead to severe complications in both children and adults, including pneumonia, encephalitis, bl...
In general radial loops have so far only in relatively rare cases been associated with some non-genetic diseases; one of the few examples is the rubella virus. Also, abnormal distributions of radial loops has been reported for Alzheimer disease (where radial loops on the fourth and fifth digits...
study was found to be — in the words of the British medical journal BMJ — an "elaborate fraud." The UK’s medical licensing board ruled that lead author Andrew Wakefield deliberately falsified his research into a possible link between the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) and autism...
Read on for 35 facts about theoft-misunderstood vaccine— and the potentially deadly virus it fights. 1. Two choices Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images The measles vaccine is administered via one of two combination shots, the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine or the measles, mumps, rubella an...
(VAERS) database as of 2/5/19, the cumulative raw count of adverse events from measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines alone was: 93,929 adverse events, 1,810 disabilities, 6,902 hospitalizations, and 463 deaths. What is even more disturbing about these numbers is that VAERS is a voluntary...
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Live vaccines are used to protect against measles, mumps, rubella, smallpox and chickenpox. As a result, the infrastructure is in place to develop these kinds of vaccines. However, live virus vaccines often need extensive safety testing. Some live viruses can be transmitted to a person who isn...
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Scientists were able to extract these B cells from the subjects’ blood and use them to generate monoclonal antibodies, which had “exceptional virus-neutralizing potency and protected mice from lethal infection.” This is also the case with rubella, mumps, measles, and polio. After people ...
Rubella, also known as German measles, causes mild illness in most individuals. This is not the case for unvaccinated pregnant women. The virus can cause serious and fatal birth defects in the fetus. Vaccination is routine and has resulted in a huge decrease in the spread. The virus begins ...