One, two, three.

Skinny patients, yeah.

What is up ZPEC?

It's your boy ZDoggMD, Dr. Zubin Demania.

And I'm wearing a coat today because we're talking about some serious, serious stuff.

And that is, what can we tell parents who are on the fence about vaccinations, who've

been sort of influenced by the fraudulent work of Andrew Wakefield and others and their

Lancet paper in 99 that was since withdrawn and he doesn't really practice medicine anymore

and should probably be in jail.

How do we talk to parents about the falsely proposed link between MMR measles, Mumps

Rubella vaccination and autism?

So ever since that paper came out, this has been a thought virus, a bad meme that is poisoned

public health and whereas measles had been effectively eradicated from America by 2000,

we now see it resurgent in multiple outbreaks throughout the country.

And as you saw from my CME talk on recognizing measles, this is not a harmless disease.

This can be a fatal and disabling disease and if you're a supporter of the show, by the

way, you can get CECredit for it, that and future shows.

So definitely sign up.

That pitch aside shameless self promotion, let's get to shameless public health.

A brand new study just released and I was lucky enough to get sent an early review copy

of this by the annals of internal medicine editorial staff to check out before it came out.

A new study in annals basically looked at for the first time a huge population of 650,000

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