vaccination

  • Covid-19 NewsHealth Minister wants Thailand’s Covid-19 vaccine trials speeded up

    Health Minister wants Thailand’s Covid-19 vaccine trials speeded up

    PHOTO: CDC on Unsplash Back in the news again, Thailand’s expect-the-unexpected Health Minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, says he wants to see trials of a homegrown Covid-19 vaccine speeded up. Thai PBS World reports that Anutin wants to cut the current six month development period in half, saying guidelines for vaccine development must be completed in three months if production is set…

  • South Thailand News“Measles vaccine doesn’t cause autism” – conclusive Danish study

    “Measles vaccine doesn’t cause autism” – conclusive Danish study

    Even as measles outbreaks continue to mount among clusters of unvaccinated children around the world, in developed countries as well as a concentration in Thailand’s southern provinces, yet another large study finds NO association between the measles vaccine and autism – a reason often parroted by parents for refusing vaccination for their children. Measles infected 2,280 people and killed 18…

  • Thailand NewsAnti-vaxers blamed for astonishing rise of Measles in 2018 – UNICEF

    Anti-vaxers blamed for astonishing rise of Measles in 2018 – UNICEF

    “Measles is more contagious than tuberculosis or Ebola, yet it is eminently preventable with a vaccine that costs pennies.” Thailand figures in the Top 10 countries in the world where measles cases rose alarmingly in 2018. Most of the rises of Measles cases in Thailand have occurred in the three southern-most provinces where a large Muslim majority live. In some…