Dr. Michael Tosi: “5 Babies at Illinois Day Center Diagnosed With Measles”
Illinois health officials said five babies who attend a suburban Chicago day care center have come down with the highly infectious childhood disease. Many parents aren't getting their children vaccinated against measles, due largely to what experts call mistaken fears about childhood vaccines. A big contributing factor to the parents' concerns about vaccine safety was a 1998 paper published and later retracted in the medical journal The Lancet. Michael Tosi, MD, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the Kravis Children's Hospital at Mount Sinai in New York City, said, "Any concerns or claims about a connection between measles vaccine and autism in young children have absolutely no scientific basis and have been entirely discredited." Learn more
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