Guess who is the new video blogger for Vaccinate Your Family’s blog called Shot of Prevention? Yours truly! Check out the first video! The Vaccine Mom Busts Flu Myths Vaccinate Your Family is thrilled to welcome Taryn Chapman, the creator of The Vaccine Mom, who will be offering up regular Video Blogs for Shot of […]
Reading Richard Preston’s “The Hot Zone” was one of the most influential books in my young life. It’s about the outbreaks of Ebola in Africa, and in a Virginia lab in 1989. (If you haven’t read it, go pick up a copy at your local library!) It got me curious about viruses, which I later […]
We have boosters for a reason: To ensure full immunity is made. A link between vaccines and autism has been disproven by many studies over decades. Some vaccines contain trace amounts of mercury (thimerosal), but it’s a different kind of mercury than is found in things like fish. This form of mercury doesn’t accumulate and […]
I’m going to go ahead and guess that MOST of us here are advocates of vaccination. Advocates fall on a spectrum. We have those who jump on every social post and argue, argue, argue with the skeptics. Then some vaccinate and hope, hope, hope that their friends’ kids at playdates are immunized, too. The vaccine-hesitant […]
