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Four measles deaths, a looming policy comment deadline, and how to read a study: The State of US Vaccine Policy (opens the original)
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Welcome to our biweekly series in partnership with CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota. Every two weeks, we walk through what changed in vaccine policy and what it means for your family. We're going to keep doing that, with a few tweaks. Think about biting into a jelly donut. The jelly shoots out the side, lands on your face and on your light-colored pants (because of course it does…), and for the next ten minutes, it's the only thing you can think about. Vaccine policy news is the jelly. It's
CIDRAP Op-Ed: How we can hear ‘high risk’ for measles and write it off (opens the original)
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On August 25, the Pennsylvania Department of Health announced two measles-associated deaths in Lancaster County, the first in the state in 35 years. Citing patient privacy, the department initially released almost nothing about the people who died beyond the fact that both were unvaccinated. Within hours, an age for the two patients was circulating anyway. My comment sections filled with people asking why I wasn't mentioning that the two who died were 80 years old. This number came from a fake s
CIDRAP Op-Ed: No, 3 vaccines are not better than 1 when it comes to MMR (opens the original)
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When I saw that a neurologist had written a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) op-ed about the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, my hopes lifted. Finally, I thought, someone with neurology training is going to tell readers what measles does to a child's brain. There's acute encephalitis in about one of every 1,000 cases, often leaving permanent damage behind. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, which surfaces seven to ten years later, takes apart a child's language and movement and is almost al
CIDRAP Op-Ed: The Cyclospora outbreak was, and still is, a communications failure (opens the original)
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The response to the current large outbreak of food-related illnesses caused by a microscopic parasite is a communications failure, not a failure of the investigation. A few characteristics of Cyclospora make it tricky to chase down. Because it will not grow in culture, the standard playbook doesn't apply. With most foodborne bacteria, a lab grows the organism, sequences it, and uploads the genetic fingerprint to PulseNet, the national network that flags when a case in one state matches a case in
CIDRAP Op-Ed: Measles isn't a coin flip—death isn't the only bad outcome (opens the original)
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My husband has a fun fact he pulls out whenever an icebreaker calls for one. The first time he ever flew in an airplane, he jumped out of it. Yep, that's right. He'd never set foot in a plane until, at 18, he decided to go skydiving. The desire to even consider doing that doesn't just fail to resonate with me, it blows my mind. (Here's hoping risk aversion is a maternally inherited trait and that my kids don't get any ideas.) Aside from my heart-stopping fear of heights, my hard pass on that pla
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