Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All Offit Paul A.Paperback
Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All Offit Paul A.Paperback In 2014, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, in…
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Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All Offit Paul A.Paperback
In 2014, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, in more than fifty years. An effective vaccine has been available since the 1940s. This tragedy was avoidable.
The reason for these epidemics can be traced to a group whose vocal proponents insist, despite evidence to the contrary, that vaccines are poison. In recent years other diseases, like measles and mumps, have also made a comeback. As a consequence, parents and caretakers are rejecting vaccines for themselves and their families.In Deadly Choices, infectious-disease expert Paul Offit takes a look behind the curtain of the anti-vaccine movement.
What he finds is a reminder of the power of scientific knowledge, and the harm we risk if we ignore