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Vaccines

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Comment of the Day: Whooping Cough Might Be Safer Than Vaccines

    On Wednesday Nina Shapiro posted about Bainbridge Island's anti-vaccine crusader Michael Belkin and his band The Refusers - who have made Internet waves this week with a video for the band's latest song, "First Do No Harm."

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Michael Belkin's Anti-Vaccine Music Video Goes 'Viral' Despite Worst Whooping Cough Epidemic in 60 Years

    Bainbridge Island's anti-vaccine crusader, Michael Belkin, is getting attention for a new music video his "protest" band has posted on YouTube. A KOMO-TV report yesterday pronounced the video, which has more than 275,000 hits, in "viral" territory (no pun apparently intended). Ironically, his breakt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Pertussis Epidemic Hits County with High Vaccine 'Refusal' Rate, and Spreads to King

    ​In our cover story last year on vaccine "refusers," we wrote about a Vashon Island mom who suggested having "pertussis parties" as a way to develop natural immunity to the disease. Well, if that strategy weren't so dangerous, now would be the time because a pertussis "epidemic" is upon us. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Seattle Scientists Inching Toward HIV Vaccine

    Image Source​As our feature story this week makes clear, the fight against HIV/AIDS is far from over. But researchers from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have made significant progress developing a vaccine for the virus, and the Gates Foundation has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Vaccine Refusal Tolerated by Many Doctors, Survey Says

    As the anti-vaccine movement has grown over the past decade, there's been a lot of talk about doctors "firing" patients who refuse to immunize. The notion has fed an "us versus them mentality," says Seattle Children's pediatrician Douglas Opel. He's hoping his just-published article will dispel that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Bill Gates is the Most Powerful Civilian in the World, says Forbes

    Bill Gates demonstrates his power​For the 29th year in a row I've been snubbed by Forbes magazine and its list of "The World's Most Powerful People." Not so for world hero Bill Gates.

  • News

    October 5, 2011

    Rick Perry: Miracle Faker

    Texas' governor paints a pretty portrait of his state. Pretty inaccurate, that is.

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Carl Buher, La Conner Survivor of Meningitis, is Vaccine Advocates' Best Spokesperson Ever

    ​The anti-vaccine movement has long accused health officials of mounting an all-encompassing propaganda campaign to push parents into immunizing their children. In truth, the public health world hasn't been good enough at propaganda. Officials may have the science on their side, but they often ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Attachment Parenting Mom Starts Pro-Vaccine Group Among an Unlikely Cohort

    ​Last week, Capitol Hill mom Jenny Allen started a group for families who vaccinate. That in itself would be noteworthy since this region, as we observed in last week's cover story, is an epicenter of the anti-vaccine movement. Allen's group, though, is all the more unusual because it's aimed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Comment of the Week: Don't "Do Research," Just Assume Vaccines Are Evil

    ​This week's exhaustively-reported cover story "The Refusers," by Nina Shapiro, examines the growing anti-vaccine movement that's taken hold across the country--nowhere more than in Washington State. As Shapiro's reporting shows, many vaccine opponents rely on debunked science and baseless c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Bill Foege, Vashon Resident and Former CDC Director, Explains How He Eradicated Smallpox

    ​One of the ironies of the local anti-vaccine movement, profiled in this week's cover story, is that it has flourished in the very region that has drawn some of the most famous immunologists in the world. That's due largely to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which for years has been fun ... More >>

  • News

    June 15, 2011

    The Anti-Vaccine Epidemic

    Why Washington hosts the nation's fastest growing population of so-called "refusers."

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    This Week's Cover Story: The Refusers

    ​When I first listened to the songs of Michael Belkin's new band, The Refusers, I found it hard to believe they were serious. With titles like "Vaccine Gestapo" and "Vaccination Uber Alles," they liken immunization to the Holocaust, a theme Belkin repeats in an essay for the just-published boo ... More >>

  • News

    January 12, 2011

    Rage Against the Vaccine

    The Waldorf School makes no apologies for its dubiously low immunization rate.

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Seattle's Waldorf School Is King County's Least Vaccinated

    ​The irony of the vaccine controversy is that most often it's the parents who should know better that don't. Even though the original 1998 report that first claimed a link between vaccines and autism has now been thoroughly debunked, the vaccination rate in wealthy, progressive enclaves around ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    The Debunked Autism-Vaccine Connection and What It Might Mean for Washington

    ​Yesterday the British Medical Journal hammered home the final proverbial nail in Andrew Wakefield's coffin. Wakefield is the former doctor whose infamous 1998 study linking childhood vaccines to autism sparked international concerns about immunizations and gave rise to the phenomenon that is ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2009

    Pigheaded Strategy

    When it comes to swine—or at least swine flu—Tacoma and Pierce County are a step ahead.

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Where's the Method to the H1N1 Vaccination Madness?

    How long did he have to wait in line?​This week, health care clinics and pharmacies are carrying out another round of H1N1 vaccination. They have been inundated. Many of the 44 pharmacies chosen by Public Health - Seattle & King County to distribute the vaccine to high-risk groups began sche ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    Gates: Only $29 Bill in the Bank

    From the Always A Dark Side If You Look Hard Enough file: Even with $29.5 billion in the vault, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation isn't overjoyed with its financial condition, the foundation's new CEO said today. "This has been a very hard year for foundations and nonprofits--and the near future d ... More >>

  • News

    January 11, 2006

    Strongman of the North

    From the Always A Dark Side If You Look Hard Enough file: Even with $29.5 billion in the vault, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation isn't overjoyed with its financial condition, the foundation's new CEO said today. "This has been a very hard year for foundations and nonprofits--and the near future d ... More >>

  • News

    July 27, 2005

    Fatal Flu

    A historic pandemic like that of 1918 is likely, perhaps as soon as this winter, and unless you're a health or government worker, no one's planning to save you.

  • News

    July 14, 2004

    The Home Affront

    They fight for us, obediently. Yet in conflict after conflict, American soldiers are injected, gassed, medicated, experimented on, exposed to chemicals, and given faulty weapons and equipment by their own government. Then they come home to vanishing veterans benefits and Pentagon stonewalling.

  • Film

    May 28, 2003

    Cry Woman, Direct Order, The Lover, Minimal Stories, and Oasis

    They fight for us, obediently. Yet in conflict after conflict, American soldiers are injected, gassed, medicated, experimented on, exposed to chemicals, and given faulty weapons and equipment by their own government. Then they come home to vanishing veterans benefits and Pentagon stonewalling.

  • News

    October 23, 2002

    The new faces of AIDS

    Disproportionately infected, blacks confront the reality that it's no longer a white, gay disease.

  • Arts

    February 6, 2002

    Book briefs

    Conflicts among those fighting AIDS; another dark pearl from Joyce Carol Oates.

  • News

    August 11, 1999

    "How about the best place to meet women in wheelchairs? Or the best place to meet pigeon-toed women, or the best place to meet blonde women with big boobs and no brains?"

    Conflicts among those fighting AIDS; another dark pearl from Joyce Carol Oates.

  • News

    July 7, 1999

    Letters

    "Of course, one can't expect white-coat welfare recipients to admit that their breeding colonies and labs should be cut off from the federal tax dollar trough they feed from . . ."

  • News

    July 7, 1999

    Shots in the DARK?

    Debate over new generation of vaccines gets prickly.

  • News

    April 29, 1998

    When your blood eats your brain

    Mad-cow disease has shut down Britain's blood supply. Could it also be contaminating the US supply?

  • News

    April 1, 1998

    Hope for herpes—again

    After a major disappointment, UW researchers are again on the trail of a new vaccine.

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