childhood vaccine
I just came across this headline: “FDA approves childhood vaccine”
I had no *idea* you could vaccinate against childhood.
(The actual story is here; it’s actually a new combination vaccination that will let kids only have 3 shots instead of 9. But damn, that’s really not what the headline suggests.)
3 Comments
Geni
Whereas in the UK there’s a huge parental movement trying to force the government to let the NHS provide individual measles, mumps and rubella vaccines because there is a belief in part of the scientific community that the MMR single vaccine can cause autism.
patch
Huh! Now that I think about it, I do remember reading something about some amount of correlation between the two of those. I can’t remember if they had sensible statistics or not, though.
Laura
The short answer, Patch, is that they don’t. :) The long answer is more involved, but I have to go take an epidemiology final…um…now. Shit.