pre-vaccine era Archives

Grave Reminders of Life Before Vaccines

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / March 18, 2018 March 27, 2018 / benefits, cognitive bias, epiglottitis, Hib, meningitis vaccines, natural immunity, Outbreaks, pest house, polio, polio eradication, polio survivor, pre-vaccine era, regret, smallpox, smallpox vaccine, survivorship bias, Walter Orenstein

Forgetting the pre-vaccine era and the benefits of vaccines makes folks susceptible to anti-vaccine talking points and scares them away from vaccinating and protecting their kids.

The Hospital Rock Engravings of Farmington, Connecticut

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / March 18, 2018 March 18, 2018 / antigen counts, eradication, History of Vaccines, inoculation, pre-vaccine era, quarantines, smallpox, smallpox epidemic, smallpox vaccine, variolation

Hundreds of people got safely inoculated against smallpox and left their names on Hospital Rock near Farmington, Connecticut just before Edward Jenner discovered the first smallpox vaccine.

Do Your Kids Need a Mumps Booster Shot?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / February 2, 2018 February 2, 2018 / boosters, Immunization Schedules, MMR, mumps, mumps outbreaks, pre-vaccine era, waning immunity

A third dose of MMR is recommended for some people at high risk to get mumps in an outbreak situation.

Vaccines Work

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / August 13, 2017 November 23, 2017 / advocacy, benefits, pre-vaccine era, Vaccine Education, vaccine effectiveness, vaccine myths, Vaccine Preventable Diseases

Vaccines are safe, effective, and necessary. Vaccines work very well to protect us from the vaccine-preventable diseases that have now either been eliminated or are well controlled at much lower levels than they were at in the pre-vaccine era.

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Grave Reminders of Life Before Vaccines

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The Hospital Rock Engravings of Farmington, Connecticut

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