I strongly urge you to vote “no” on Maine’s Question 1 on March 3 to protect our new vaccine law. The new law should remain in place to combat alarming declines in vaccination rates. To avoid outbreaks of disease, we need to reverse the trend and achieve high levels of herd immunity to protect vulnerable […]

Press Herald Staff Writer Scott Thistle, in a story published Jan. 31, wrote that Gov. Mills urges voters to uphold Maine’s new vaccine law. She argues that large pharmaceutical companies “hardly benefit at all from producing vaccines.” It is disingenuous for Gov. Mills to assert that there is no profit motive behind vaccine policy. The […]

Seventy years ago, there was, unfortunately, such a great number of communicable diseases that there were hospitals dedicated to their treatment. In the 1950s, 95 percent of the population had been infected with the measles by age 15, with 500 deaths annually. There also were special hospital units with iron lungs to manage those who […]