{"id":9502,"date":"2009-01-24T05:20:14","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T10:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=9502"},"modified":"2009-01-24T05:20:14","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T10:20:14","slug":"another-anti-vax-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=9502","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER ANTI-VAX DEATH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many kids will we allow to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/HEALTH\/01\/23\/hib.vaccine.cdc\/index.html\">sacrificed<\/a> on the altar of pseudo-science?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> (CNN) &#8212; A childhood illness that has mostly been curbed through vaccinations has killed one child and sickened four others in Minnesota, health officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The five children were infected with a bacterial infection known as Hib: Haemophilus influenzae type b.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the affected children had not received any vaccinations, including the 7-month-old who died, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. <\/p>\n<p>[snip]<\/p>\n<p>One in 20 children infected with Hib dies, according to the CDC. And survivors of the disease can become deaf; 10 to 30 percent have permanent brain damage. <\/p>\n<p>[snip]<\/p>\n<p>Before vaccines became widely used, about 20,000 Hib cases were reported each year in the country. After children began receiving the vaccinations in the early 1990s, CDC officials said, there was a 99 percent drop in cases. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many kids will we allow to be sacrificed on the altar of pseudo-science? (CNN) &#8212; A childhood illness that has mostly been curbed through vaccinations has killed one child and sickened four others in Minnesota, health officials said Friday. The five children were infected with a bacterial infection known as Hib: Haemophilus influenzae type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9503,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions\/9503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}