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Babble Wrap: Mexican Boy Edgar Hernandez, 4, The First Victim Of Swine Flu
Mexican Boy Edgar Hernandez, 4, The First Victim Of Swine Flu The first known case of swine flu emerged a fortnight earlier than previously thought in a village where residents have long complained about the smell and flies from a nearby pig farm, it emerged yesterday. The Australian Possible Swine Flu Outbreaks At Two Or More Schools New Yor...
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THE BABBLE TAKE The discovery of vaccines and widespread immunisation has helped all but extinguish many infectious diseases like tuberculosis and polio, once common causes of death or disability in children. However, some parents are now opting out of immunising children because they fear side effects. They argue that vaccines, or rather ingr...
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Spiderman Rescues Autistic Boy
To be fair it was really "a Bangkok firefighter in a Spiderman suit." But to the kid, it was probably Spiderman. So I prefer my original phrasing. The BBC reports that a Thai fireman named Somchai Yoosabai put on a Spidey suit in order to coax an eight-year-old autistic boy down from a ledge. It was his first day at school. The boy's mother told...
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What Explains High Autism Rates Among Somali Immigrants?
A medical mystery is brewing in Minnesota, U.S.A, where thirty to sixty thousand Somali refugees and their families have settled and where, increasingly, that community's children are experiencing high rates of autism. According to an article in the New York Times, while about 6% of the Minneapolis public school population is Somali, they repre...
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Study Says High Pressure Chambers Show Promise For Autistic Kids
A new study shows that hyperbaric oxygen treatment can help lessen the outward symptoms of autism. Dr. Daniel A. Rossignol of the international Child Development Resource Center in Melbourne, Fla., conducted the blind study of 62 children ranging in ages from two to seven. After 40 one-hour treatments spanning four weeks, the group that received...
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I’m Not A Brat, I’m Autistic
My 10-year-old nephew is autistic. Not in a "quirky," "neurodiverse" kind of way, but in a typical, sometimes aggressive kind of way. When our families go out together, as we often do, I like to pretend that people are looking at us because of the eight adorable children trailing us, but I know what they're really looking at is Jonah: Jonah bit...
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Vaccine Debate Far From Over
When the U.S. Federal Vaccine Court ruled earlier this month against three families who claimed that vaccines had caused their children's autism, proponents of vaccines rallied, suggesting the discussion was over and vaccines had "won." But the debate is far from over. Though those three cases received all the media attention, the fact is that...
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Bad Science: How The Autism Vaccine Scare Snowballed
Jenny McCarthy as an activist, "Green Vaccines," death threats against pro-vaccine doctors, deadly measles outbreaks: all sprang from one source, a flawed medical study with a tiny sample size, a lead author willing to fudge the facts, and a story the media found too fascinating to fully examine. Writing in this week's Newsweek magazine, Sharon...
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Researcher Fabricated Autism Link In Vaccine
The man who launched a decade's-long fear for parents heading to have their children vaccinated has been proven a forgery. The Sunday Times revealed the results of an investigation today showing Andrew Wakefield, the man who posited that the MMR vaccine was at the root of the increased autism diagnoses, fabricated his research. Published in 1...
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