对也门水井和水处理设施的故意袭击正在使该国的一些人怀疑美国支持的沙特联盟是否试图故意引发另一场霍乱疫情。
SANA'A, YEMEN -- In Yemen’s Al Sabeen Hospital dozens of cholera patients lie motionless in their beds awaiting treatment for a disease eradicated in most of the world but making an aggressive resurgence in war-torn Yemen. Al Sabeen doctor Mohammed Abdul-Mughni, who had been working in a temporary diarrhea treatment center in the hospital, would
“如果国家强迫孩子接种疫苗并且孩子有重大的医疗反应并且可能因此而死亡，那将是国家对这些父母施加的巨大负担。” – 新西兰前总理约翰基
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA -- Australia's “No Jab, No Pay” policy just got a little stronger, or at least more insistent. Under the previous policy, parents who did not keep their children up to date on vaccinations would miss out on a one-time, end-of-the-year tax benefit called Family Tax Benefit Part A, valued at AU$737. Under the updated policy, those
American parents have the luxury of being able to buy into vaccine conspiracies as their children are protected by others’ immunity. But with Pakistan’s polio epidemic, the results are tragic.
KARACHI, Pakistan — When health workers approached Zulfikar Quaid about inoculating his three children against polio, Quaid picked up an old cricket bat inside his home and waved it at them. "Get out of my house," he yelled. "My children are Muslim and we don't need your dirty Hindu drugs." The health workers he was yelling at were stunned —
More than a decade ago, parents refused to give measles shots to children because of discredited research that linked the vaccine to autism.
LONDON — More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of now discredited research that linked the vaccine to autism. Now, health officials are scrambling to catch up and stop a growing epidemic of the contagious disease. This year, the U.K. has had more than 1,200 cases of measles,
