vaccination

Mimi Luther Dreads the Prospect of Flu Season Mixed With a Pandemic. She Begs You to Get a Flu Shot.

How Oregon can avoid the “super-duper trifecta of misery.”

Murmurs: Beaverton Doctor Crusades Against Vaccine Requirement

Go Blazers.

The New York Times Links Government Deniers, Tax Scammers and Anti-Vaxxers

The New York Times highlights a cross-over between tax scammers and anti-vaxxers.

Oregon Bill Tightening Vaccine Requirements May Soon Have a New Loophole

As legislature getting rid of the nonmedical exemption to vaccines, new amendment would make it less cumbersome to get a medical exemption.

Pediatrician Paul Thomas Has 15,000 Patients—and He Tells Them the Measles Vaccine Might Cause Autism

He is on a crusade, one many Oregonians blame for reviving measles and sparking outbreaks of whooping cough in the 21st century.

Oregon Republicans Are Rallying Around the “Vaccine Choice” Movement

Childhood vaccines have become a highly partisan issue in Oregon. The “vaccine choice” movement is now all but a plank of the Oregon Republican Party.

A Portland Marketing Company Created a Fake Anti-Vaccination Lifestyle Blog

Unvaccinated Life, run by local firm Borders Perrin Norranders, posts fictional opinion pieces with titles like “Putting the ‘Me’ in Measles” and “I’m Sick of Scientists Acting Like Their Peers Are Better Than Mine” The site launched on Feb. 28 and sells over a dozen products, including a bumper stickers, shirts and phone cases emblazoned with the slogan “Unvaccination is Contagious.” Profits from sales go to the United Nations’ Shot at Life campaign.

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