<p>Vaccines and autism: the doctor that published the study years ago was shown this year to have fudged the data. It has never been replicated and there was extensive media coverage this year that showed that it was fraudulent. It’s so sad that while he made money and got famous, families lost children due to vaccine-preventable diseases.</p>
<p>Whooping cough: can be much worse that just coughing for six weeks. Babies can die from whooping cough (and parents are often carriers because the vaccine wears off and you need a booster if you are around infants!). I know the story of a family that lost a baby to whooping cough. Very very sad.</p>
<p>I hope they can contain the outbreak at RPI but it is worrisome because all the students are headed home.</p>