If you made it through childhood without catching chickenpox and haven’t been vaccinated as an adult, you may want to consider the vaccine. As Julian found out, getting the chickenpox as an adult is horrific. Julian is a schoolteacher in Australia, but the schoolyard is not where his chickenpox story began. Julian was spending time […]
I had a chance to listen in on a conference call with some amazingly motivated vaccine advocates and some of the creative talents behind the documentary, Invisible Threat. The documentary is produced by high school student filmmakers and explores the science behind vaccinations and the fears and misconceptions people have about vaccines. The Invisible Threat is so […]
Way back before the 1930’s lots of kids were dying from vaccine-related bacterial infections. That’s because kids were given their vaccines from multi-dose vials–vials intended to be used more than one time, but with different needles. It turns out that’s not a very clean way of giving vaccines. This allowed for bacteria and fungi to […]