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Nature 432, 275-276 (18 November 2004) | doi:10.1038/432275a; Published online 17 November 2004
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- National Science Foundation
- Arlington, VA
Postdoctoral Research in Functional Genomics
- Harvard School of Public Health, computer science, biology, bioinformatics,
- Boston, MA
Immune to the facts
Michael B. A. Oldstone1
BOOK REVIEWED-MMR Science & Fiction: Exploring A Vaccine Crisis
by Richard Horton
Granta:
2004. 220 pp. £7.99
BOOK REVIEWED-MMR and Autism: What Parents Need to Know
by Michael Fitzpatrick
Routledge: 2004. 232 pp. £45, $75(hbk); £14.99, $23.95 (pbk)
The measles virus is remarkably contagious, infecting more than 95% of susceptible humans exposed to it. About 1 in 1,000 people infected requires hospitalization and may become permanently disabled, and 1 in 300,000 infected with measles develops a progressive neurological disorder, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, which invariably causes death.
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