Earlier this year, health officials suspected that the nearly 200 Disneyland visitors who were infected with measles, are connected to parents who refused to vaccinate their children (anti-vaxxers). A new study has emerged that backs up that theory. Since measles is highly contagious and can spread quickly and easily through the air, one infected person has the […]
To date I have never met one person in my life that hasn’t been through some kind of ordeal or that doesn’t have a bad story to tell. Not one. I do believe though that the choice is ours in how we deal with our stories. Do we let them define the rest of our […]
Editor’s Note: Pat Warde died November 24, 1992. The Pat Warde Memorial Collection of Southern Letters was created at the University of North Texas Rare Books Library shortly thereafter. Pat Warde was an integral part of the intellectual and political life of UNT and the entire Denton community. In memory of his wife’s love of literature and her dedication […]
Elizabeth Warren put vaccine conspiracy theorists in their place during a Senate hearing on vaccines with Centers for Disease Control immunization expert Dr. Anne Schuchat. To prove her point that vaccines are safe, Warren asked Dr. Schuchat whether vaccines were safe – eight different ways: WARREN: “Is there any scientific evidence that vaccines cause autism?” SCHUCHAT: […]
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the confirmation of the first Ebola case in the United States in a person who traveled from West Africa. In a press conference, CDC Director Tom Frieden said that the virus was diagnosed in someone traveling from Liberia. Although the person had no symptoms when leaving Liberia, […]