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The Learning Channel's website yanked a story that was riddled with mistruths and flat-out errors — but only after major medical organizations complained.
In the U.S., 2011 was the worst measles year in 15 years, but worldwide, deaths from the disease have plummeted over the past 10 years.
Measles was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000. But a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says infections have risen: last year the U.S. reported the highest number of measles cases in 15 years.
Reported measles cases in the first half of 2011, as reported by Ethiopian health officials to the United Nations. Public health experts blame much of the spread on conditions at refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, where poor sanitation, frequent movement and close quarters create an environment where infectious diseases — including cholera and typhoid [...]
So far this year, 118 cases of measles have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — the highest number for the January-to-May period since 1996 and double the median number of yearly cases reported from 2001 to 2008.
The global outbreak of measles is continuing to spread, with cases rising in Europe and certain parts of the U.S., including California.
If there’s one great truth of political debate, it’s this: when noise trumps knowledge, someone’s going to get hurt.
It took nearly six months but the General Medical Council (GMC) in the U.K. has pulled Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s license to practice medicine in the United Kingdom. Wakefield is the researcher who nearly single-handedly fueled parental concerns about the link between vaccines and autism. In 1998, he published a paper in the medical journal Lancet [...]
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