Vaccine Controversies with Seth Mnookin (NPF Vaccine Webinar Series)
1 like621 views
This document summarizes vaccine controversies throughout history in 3 sentences or less per topic: [1] Smallpox vaccination faced resistance since it began in the late 18th century, and early vaccines had safety issues like a contaminated yellow fever vaccine infecting 300,000 soldiers in WWII. [2] The polio vaccine success in the 1950s was briefly marred by a manufacturer's faulty batch that caused paralysis, and the pertussis vaccine faced skepticism over side effects despite reducing a major childhood killer. [3] Recent controversies include links alleged between vaccines and autism based on since-discredited research, mercury-based preservative scares, HPV vaccine politics, and international incidents like
Vaccine Controversies with Seth Mnookin (NPF Vaccine Webinar Series)
- 1. National Press Foundation Vaccine Webinar Series VACCINE CONTROVERSIES Seth Mnookin November 22, 2011
- 3. Anti-Vaccine Fears: As Old as Vaccination Itself
- 4. Smallpox Epidemics recorded for over 3,000 years Inoculation may have begun 2,000 years ago 1st effective vaccine: 1796; resistance ensued
- 5. Successes and Failures New vaccines in 20th century save millions of lives But contaminated yellow fever vaccine infects 300,000 GIs in World War II
- 6. Polio Only the atomic bomb scared Americans more in 1950s More people knew about Salk vaccine trials than knew President Eisenhowers full name
- 7. Polio Vaccine: Good News and Bad Nationwide April 12, 1955: celebration April 26, 1955: First reports of paralysis from vaccines manufactured by Cutter Laboratories
- 8. Pertussis and Vaccine Roulette Leading childhood killer tamed by vaccine, despite side effects 1982 TV program sparks parents movement
- 9. Andrew Wakefield Measles and Autism
- 10. Thimerosal The Bundaberg Tragedy and thimerosal Ethylmercury versus methylmercury Robert Kennedy Rolling Stone article later retracted
- 11. HPV Vaccines Cervical cancer vaccine becomes embroiled controversies over lobbying, parental rights, and social conservatism Presidential politics and HPV
- 12. International Vaccine Issues Nigeria rumors in 2003 about polio vaccines led to decrease in vaccination, increase in cases, spread to more than 10 neighboring countries Vaccines and catching Osama bin Laden?
- 13. Causation Versus Correlation Correlation between two variables does not automatically imply that one causes the other Does drinking milk cause cancer? Do vaccines cause autism?
- 14. The Role of the Media What is a controversy? Are there two sides to every story? Giving scientists and the University of Google equal time Stories that dont get told