GreenMedInfo  January 27 2014

“It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth – that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda.” ~ Harry Browne

The war against so-called ‘vaccine preventable’ diseases has a new frontier: the internet, and most recently The Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) has entered the fray with the publication of an interactive map that it claims “visually plots global outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, rubella, and other diseases that are easily preventable by inexpensive and effective vaccines.”  This widely referenced map generated news headlines such as:

• LA Times: “The toll of the anti-vaccination movement, in one devastating graphic”
• Medical Daily: “Map Shows Anti-Vaccine Movement’s Impact On Public Health In U.S., Europe”
• The Verge: “Map of preventable disease outbreaks shows the influence of anti-vaccination movements”

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