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Officials Say Social Media Plays a Role in the Spread of Vaccine Misinformation
Against the backdrop of a measles outbreak that has passed 200 cases in two months, a Senate committee addressed misinformation about vaccines.
March 7, 2019
California Approves Strict New Vaccine Requirements for Children
California now has one of the strictest vaccination laws in the country, after Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation on Tuesday that eliminates personal and religious belief exemptions.
June 30, 2015
What's Next for the Vaccine Debate? Live Chat 3/25 3:00 pm ET
Join us for a live chat about "The Vaccine War" with producer and director Kate McMahon, Lisa Aliferis from the KQED blog State of the Health, UC Berkeley professor Arthur Reingold, and Carl Krawitt from the film. You can leave a question now.
March 24, 2015
Seth Mnookin: How the Vaccine War Has Changed
"What we've learned in the last five years is that once you scare someone, you can't just unscare them," says Mnookin, a science writer who has reported extensively on the vaccine debate.
March 24, 2015
"The Time Was Right to Revisit This Issue": Behind the Scenes of "The Vaccine War"
Making "The Vaccine War" was a unique journey for Jon Palfreman and Kate McMahon -- and some of the film's most striking footage came about in unexpected ways.
March 24, 2015
A Very Short History of Vaccines in America
Mass immunization in America dates as far back as George Washington, who once wrote that his soldiers had more to dread from smallpox "than from the sword of the enemy."
March 24, 2015
What Are the Vaccine Exemption Laws in Your State?
With measles outbreaks like the one that started at Disneyland unfolding in 17 states, legislatures across the nation are rethinking the laws around vaccination exemptions.
March 24, 2015
Could Your Pediatrician Spot a Disease Made Rare By Vaccines?
Thanks to widespread vaccination, diseases that once killed thousands of Americans each year have become so rare in the U.S. that most younger doctors have never seen an in-person case.
March 23, 2015
Forum: What Do Doctors Think About America's "Vaccine War"?
Are vaccines safe for children? Three doctors and experts in their field discuss how they think about that question and what they tell parents.
March 23, 2015
Dr. Anthony Fauci: Risks From Vaccines Are "Almost Nonmeasurable"
When a vaccine has gone through the safety process, the risk to children is "almost nonmeasurable," says the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
March 23, 2015
Jenny McCarthy: "We're Not An Anti-Vaccine Movement ... We're Pro-Safe Vaccine"
"Ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we’d rather have the measles versus autism, we’d sign up for the measles," says the celebrity, author and activist.
March 23, 2015
Dr. Paul Offit: "A Choice Not To Get a Vaccine Is Not a Risk-Free Choice"
"The only way in which you can really effectively stop transmission is to vaccinate," says Paul Offit, the chief of the division of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a co-developer of a vaccine for rotavirus.
March 23, 2015
Home Video DVDs of The Vaccine War are available from ShopPBS.
Educational DVDs of The Vaccine War are available from ShopPBS.
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