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Remembering Measles

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / April 11, 2021 / Brady Bunch, contagious, measles deaths, measles outbreaks, measles symptoms, mortality rate, sanitation, stories of vaccine-preventable diseases, unvaccinated, William Sears

Do you remember measles? I don’t either…

How Does a Mother’s Tdap Shot Protect a Newborn Baby?

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / October 11, 2020 / newborns, passive immunity, pertussis, pregnancy, risks, safety, stories of vaccine-preventable diseases, Tdap, trimester, waning immunity

Newborns and infants have the highest rates of death from pertussis and need extra protection from the Tdap shot that their mother got during her third trimester.

Kennedy Has a Fundraiser in the Middle of the Largest and Longest Measles Outbreak in Recent New York History

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / May 6, 2019 / 72 doses, Andrew Wakefield, Bobby Kennedy, false balance, Good Day New York, liability, Lori Stokes, measles outbreaks, Minnesota, placebos, risks, Rockland, Rosanna Scotto, stories of vaccine-preventable diseases, testing, vaccine development

What’s worse than false balance about vaccines, false balance about vaccines in the middle of a big measles outbreak!

Remembering the Measles Epidemics of the 1990s

By Vincent Iannelli, MD / April 27, 2019 / measles deaths, measles epidemic, measles myths, measles outbreaks, risks, stories of vaccine-preventable diseases, vaccine laws

Why didn’t we learn our lesson after the last big measles epidemics?

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Remembering Measles

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