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Anti Vaccine : Part VII - ketchim - 08-13-2015 This spring saw the first death from measles in the United States in 12 years.                                                         Re: Anti Vaccine : Part VII - ketchim - 08-13-2015 More and more parents have been refusing to immunise their children. The influence of a loose group of fringe campaigners against immunisation - "anti-vaxxers", as they're known - has been spreading. Re: Anti Vaccine : Part VII - ketchim - 08-13-2015 Brian Deer is an investigative journalist for the British newspaper The Sunday Times. "There was a paper published in February 1998 in The Lancet and basically what it said was that there was a group of parents who brought 12 children to a hospital in North London here in England. Those parents said that they gave their child the MMR [measles, mumps and rubella] vaccine : and within 14 days, eight of the families said their child had developed the first signs of autism.  Re: Anti Vaccine : Part VII - ketchim - 08-13-2015 Juniper Russo now writes a blog, Back From Nature, in which she advocates evidence-based healthcare. Like journalist Brian Deer, she's faced a vicious backlash and even threats from anti-vaxxers for changing her views. But at one time there was no question in her mind: vaccinations were a conspiracy.                                Re: Anti Vaccine : Part VII - ketchim - 08-13-2015 "I thought that the government wasn't to be trusted and I very much believed in the idea that there was this big organisation called Big Pharma and I thought that people would be willing to make my child sick to make a dollar."