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Communication Gap. Too many mothers still believe that measles is one of those unavoidable childhood diseases that disappear after seven days of spots and fever. The facts are grimmer. Before the development of the vaccine, almost 4,000,000 children caught measles every year. Thousands of them came down with...
Vaccination against smallpox is almost 200 years old, yet it is still far from being an invariably safe procedure. Although production methods have become more sanitary, the vaccine itself has changed little since Edward Jenner scraped it from sores on the hand of a cowpox-infected dairymaid. It causes severe...
The government-appointed vaccination authorities at the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta (a branch of the U.S. Public Health Service) are divided. The current official recommendation is for vaccination between the first and second birthdays. Some N.C.D.C. experts favor abandoning the routine vaccination of children at any age. On...
Give with VIG. While health authorities are unlikely soon to adopt Kempe's proposal for a near-total halt to mass vaccination, potent agents for reducing its ravages are already available. One is a safer vaccine that Kempe has devised. Before that, or something like it, comes into general...
One point on which all the warring factions agree is that doctors should be far more careful before giving the present vaccine. Children with leukemia, or on steroid drugs that depress the immune reaction, obviously should not be vaccinated. Nor should a child with eczema or a history of recent...