Deadly Choices

Author: Paul A. Offit M.D.
Edition: First Trade Paper Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0465029620
Category: Medical

Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All

In 2010, California suffered the largest and deadliest outbreak of pertussis, also known as Awhooping cough," in more than fifty years. Download Deadly Choices medical books for free.
This tragedy was avoidable. An effective vaccine has been available since the 1940s. In recent years other diseases, like measles and mumps, have also made a comeback. The reason for these epidemics can be traced to a group whose vocal proponents insist, despite evidence to the contrary, that vaccines are poison. As a consequence, parents and caretakers are rejecting vaccines for themselves and their families.In Deadly Choices, infectious-disease expert Paul Offit takes a look behind the curtain of the anti-vaccine movement. What he finds is a reminder of the power of scientific knowledge, and the Get Deadly Choices our bestseller medical books.

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This tragedy was avoidable. An effective vaccine has been available since the 1940s. In recent years other diseases, like measles and mumps, have also made a comeback. The reason for these epidemics can be traced to a group whose vocal proponents insist, despite evidence to the contrary, that vaccines are poison What he finds is a reminder of the power of scientific knowledge, and the

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