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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/05/27/they-say-another-reason-to-vaccinate-your-kid.aspx" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/05/PertussisVaccine.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/05/PertussisVaccine.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; border=&quo..." target="_blank">They Say: Another Reason to Vaccinate Your Kid</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Wed, 27 May 2009 14:28:00 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('The no-vax movement got more bad news this week with a report in Pediatrics that confirms herd immunity does not keep the non-vaccinated safe.The study by researchers at Kaiser Permanente Colorado and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health determines kids whose parents opt out on vaccines are twenty three times more likely to develop pertussis than their vaccinated peers.More commonly known as whooping cough, the incidence of pertussis was rapidly declining in the U.S. from the 1940s through the late nineties thanks to vaccinations. But with parents forgoing the vaccines, the numbers are back up - big time. In 2005 alone, more than twenty-five thousand cases were reported (for comparison check out the numbers in 1976 - only one thousand ten cases in the entire U.S.).&nbsp; Those n...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/05/18/mom-tells-state-don-t-make-me-vaccinate.aspx" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/05/vaccine.gif&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/05/vaccine.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;275&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; border=&quo..." target="_blank">Mom Tells State Don\'t Make Me Vaccinate</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 18 May 2009 15:04:00 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('It&#39;s one of only two states that won&#39;t allow parents to use religion as an excuse to avoid vaccinating their kids, and now West Virginia is facing a lawsuit from a mom who says she doesn&#39;t want her six-year-old daughter to receive the shots.&nbsp;Jennifer Workman says it&#39;s a &quot;sacrilege&quot; to expect her to vaccinate her daughter. But wouldn&#39;t you know, this so-called religious excuse is coming from a mom who claims vaccines cause autism.I say so-called religion in this case because it sounds awfully convenient. Workman describes herself as &quot;bapticostal,&quot; a mix of Baptist and Pentecostal religions, and she&#39;s asked a federal judge to overturn the state&#39;s demands that her daughter be immunized before attending public school based on religious freed...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/03/19/what-explains-high-autism-rates-among-somali-immigrants.aspx" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/17autism1_large.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/17autism1_large.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; heig..." target="_blank">What Explains High Autism Rates Among Somali Immigrants?</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:01:00 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('A medical mystery is brewing in Minnesota, where thirty to sixty thousand Somali refugees and their families have settled and where, increasingly, that community&#39;s children are experiencing high rates of autism. According to an article in the New York Times, while about 6% of the Minneapolis public school population is Somali, they represented 25% of the students enrolled in special preschool classes for children with autism. And a Somali father is quoted as saying he knows ten other dads, all from Somalia and living in the US, who have autistic kids. What can explain this alarming and sad development?&nbsp;Nobody is quite sure, just as nobody knows for certain that it even is a meaningful cluster; public health officials are trying to determine whether Somali communities in other citi...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/02/23/bad-science-how-the-autism-vaccine-scare-snowballed.aspx" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/jimcarrey-jennymccarthy-green-vaccine-photos-060408-09.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/jimcarrey-jennymccarthy-green-vaccine-photos-060408-0..." target="_blank">Bad Science: How The Autism Vaccine Scare Snowballed</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:31:00 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('Jenny McCarthy as an activist, &quot;Green Vaccines,&quot; death threats against pro-vaccine doctors, deadly measles outbreaks: all sprang from one source, a flawed medical study with a tiny sample size, a lead author willing to fudge the facts, and a story the media found too fascinating to fully examine.&nbsp;Writing in this week&#39;s Newsweek magazine, Sharon Begley lays out the timeline of what would become one of the biggest medical fairy tales of the past decade -- a narrative of corrupt pharamaceutical companies, poisoned children, and devoted parents. Too bad it wasn&#39;t, you know, true.&nbsp;As is now clear, the study published in the Lancet medical journal back in 1998 linking the MMR vaccine to autism (via intestinal problems) was just plain bad science. The study looked at o...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/02/19/flu-has-claimed-at-least-three-kids-this-season.aspx" title="&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/02/syringedrop.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/2009/02/syringedrop.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; border=&quot;0&qu..." target="_blank">Flu Has Claimed at Least Three Kids This Season</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:09:00 GMT</span><br />');
document.write('When people ask me why I&#39;m so pro-vaccine, I have one answer: they prevent disease and/or death.&nbsp;So why have three kids already died in what is being described by doctors as a pretty average flu season? At least one of the children went unvaccinated not because his parents were lax, but because the twelve-year-old reportedly lost his permission slip to get the immunization at a school clinic. Hunter Pope is the first child in Massachusetts known to have died from the flu this season; he was fine on a Friday and gone by Sunday.&nbsp;Sadly, the weekend also brought the death of a ten-year-old boy on Long Island, the first ever pediatric flu death in the five years since public health officials have been tracking the diease. First believed to have been fighting meningitis, tests even...');
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