By Neena Satija and Lena H. Sun, The Washington Post The nation’s oldest anti-vaccine advocacy group often emphasizes that it is supported primarily by small donations and concerned parents, describing its founder as the leader of a “national, grass roots movement.” But over the past decade a single donor has contributed more than $2.9 million…
The New Jersey legislature came very close to enacting a law, S. 2173, that would end religious or philosophical exemptions parents use to opt-out of vaccinating their children who attend state schools. Unfortunately, according to The New York Times, shortly after S. 2173 was passed by the State Assembly, it stumbled in the New Jersey…
By Mia De Graff – Daily Mail An anti-vaccine group called CrazyMothers has issued a plea to retire the term ‘anti-vaxxers’ because ‘derogatory’. In social media posts on Sunday, the group said it is ‘dismissivemy [sic] simplistic, highly offensive and largely false’ to call them ‘anti-vaxxers’ despite the fact that their members oppose vaccinations. The…
Of the 53 dead, 48 are children aged 4 and younger. Beth Mole – 12/2/2019 – Ars Technica The government of Samoa will shut down for two days this week while officials try to curb a deadly measles outbreak that has sickened 3,728 and killed 53—48 of whom were children ages 0 to 4 years…
By Lena H. Sun, November 15, 2019, The Washington Post The majority of Facebook advertisements spreading misinformation about vaccines were funded by two anti-vaccine groups, including one led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to a study published this week. The World Mercury Project, headed by Kennedy, and a California-based organization called Stop Mandatory Vaccination…
Mizuki Hizaka, Inquisitr, November 19, 2019 Erica Mena is pregnant with a baby girl, and she took to Instagram stories today to reveal her anti-vaccine stance. The first post that was available was a screenshot of an article, which claimed that Japan has the world’s highest life expectancy and lowest infant mortality. The headline suggested…
Samantha Lock, Nov. 1, 2019, The Sun AN ‘Anti-vaxxer’ mum has bragged about how she infected ‘trick-or-treaters’ lollipops with CHICKEN POX in order to give kids ‘natural immunity’. The woman, who purported to be a nurse from Queensland in Australia, shared the news over an anti-vaccination Facebook page on Thursday. In the post, the unidentified…
