Measles outbreak: How a decades old, fraudulent anti-vaccine study still affects public health

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I'm not sure how trustworthy Global News is. Forum hosts, please let me know if this is a problem.

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Andrew Wakefield is one of the very few true monsters of modern medicine. A villain who inflicted misery upon innocent children for fame and fortune, and whose evil lives on to the present day.

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February 27, 2018 10:59 am

Updated: February 27, 2018 11:45 am

Measles outbreak: How a decades old, fraudulent anti-vaccine study still affects public health

By Katie Dangerfield National Online Journalist, Breaking News Global News

A measles outbreak is spreading across Europe and health experts say it’s because of a steadily growing anti-vaccination movement.

READ MORE: Deadly measles outbreak spreads in Europe as vaccinations fall

Reported cases of the highly contagious and potentially deadly virus almost quadrupled in Europe in 2017 (21,000 cases) compared to the year before (5,273 cases), with the highest rates in Italy, Romania and Ukraine, according to the World Health Organization.

And the reason parents may not be vaccinating their children could be due to a widely discredited research paper that was published 20 years ago this week, experts say.

[nycbos]

1. The far right and the far left have several common causes.

One of them is this kookie anti vaccine moment.

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2. Wakefields samle size was...

...inadequate. Something like 12 patients, IIRC. All the other researchers on the project ended up recanting. The Lancet eventually retracted.

Still, people believe. In my experience over decades in pediatrics, those parents who do not want to be convinced away from their antivaxx beliefs are pretty much a lost cause. Nothing gets thru to them.