The Vaccine War by PBS
1. What vaccine-preventable disease often leaves people with physical deformities?
2. What are the symptoms of Rotavirus?
3. What would you say to a parent who argues 1) vaccines aren’t necessary since infectious diseases aren’t as common as they once were? Or 2)“there’s no more polio in the US, why do we need the vaccine?”
4. Andrew Wakefield suggested the MMR leads to autism. What mechanism did he suggest links the vaccine to autism?
5. Autism is often diagnosed around the same time as children receive their MMR. Does this mean the MMR is the cause of autism?
6. Thiomersal was reduced or eliminated from vaccines beginning in what year?
7. Scientists have done epidemiological studies to determine if there is a link between vaccines (primarily MMR) and autism. What did they find?
8. What does the SEED study aim to determine?
9. What is herd immunity?
