Masernviren sind hoch ansteckend und gefährlich. Obwohl es einen sicheren und wirksamen Impfstoff gibt, steigt die Zahl der Maserntoten weltweit seit Jahren wieder an. Wie kann das sein? Das Pandemia-Team erzählt dieses Mal von einem der schlimmsten Ausbrüche der letzten Jahre auf Samoa und erklärt, was einer der größten Medizin-Skandale der letzten Jahrzehnte damit zu tun hat.
Heidi J.Larson: Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start — and Why They Don’t Go Away (Opens in a new window)
Carl B. Bergstrom: Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (Opens in a new window)
Brian Deer: Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield’s war on vaccines (Opens in a new window)
AJ Wakefield et al.: RETRACTED: Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children (Opens in a new window)
The editors of The Lancet: Retraction—Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children (Opens in a new window)
Secrets of the MMR scare: How the case against the MMR vaccine was fixed (Opens in a new window)
Robert Koch Institut: Masern (Opens in a new window)
Measles virus infection diminishes preexisting antibodies that offer protection from other pathogens (Opens in a new window)
Studies into the mechanism of measles-associated immune suppression during a measles outbreak in the Netherlands (Opens in a new window)
Large measles epidemic in the Netherlands, May 2013 to March 2014: changing epidemiology (Opens in a new window)
The Vaccine Confidence Project (Opens in a new window)