{"id":33798,"date":"2011-04-10T15:42:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/more-news-on-preventable-diseases-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-04-10T15:42:57","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T15:42:57","slug":"more-news-on-preventable-diseases-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/more-news-on-preventable-diseases-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"More news on preventable diseases | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/04\/05\/while-people-sicken-cbs-reporter-spreads-antivax-propaganda\/\">I just wrote<\/a> about vaccine-preventable diseases on the rise once again, but even in the past couple of days there&rsquo;s more news:<\/p><p>1) Houston is seeing <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/ktrk\/story?section=news\/local&amp;id=8055908\">the first case of measles in six years<\/a>. The victim? An 11-month-old baby. Let&rsquo;s hope she has a full and swift recovery, and no one else falls ill.<\/p><p>2) In that post linked above I talked about a school in Virginia that had to close down due to a big pertussis outbreak. Well, in Canada, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/swo.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20110405\/swo-vaccine-suspension-110405\/20110405\/?hub=SWOHome\">they&rsquo;re telling kids who are unvaccinated they can&rsquo;t come to school<\/a>; at least, not until they can show their inoculations are up-to-date. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/02\/25\/two-difficult-court-cases-protect-the-publics-health\/\">I have mixed feelings<\/a> about forcing kids to get vaccinated, but in the end we simply cannot have schools be breeding grounds for diseases which are trivially easy to prevent. I read about this story on Fark, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\/comments\/6092906\/Students-suspended-oppressed-because-of-Jenny-McCarthy\">and the comments there are interesting<\/a>, to say the least.<\/p><p>3) Seth Mnookin, who wrote <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2011\/03\/11\/the-panic-virus\/\">\"The Panic Virus\"<\/a> an expos&eacute; of the antivax movement, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sethmnookin.com\/2011\/04\/06\/todays-lesson-alternative-virginia-school-closes-after-half-of-its-students-infected-with-pertussis-all-of-them-were-unvaccinated\/\">has posted his thoughts on these recent news stories<\/a>. As usual, I find his comments to be well-reasoned and thoughtful.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/def5_xfdxbSFBgaY-2WAAl4C2Lo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/120ac_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/def5_xfdxbSFBgaY-2WAAl4C2Lo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/120ac_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/120ac_NqWYqILeY9g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/120ac_BpeA0A1UUFE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I just wrote about vaccine-preventable diseases on the rise once again, but even in the past couple of days there&rsquo;s more news:1) Houston is seeing the first case of measles in six years. The victim? An 11-month-old baby. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/more-news-on-preventable-diseases-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}