Should we vaccinate our kids?

    Should we vaccinate our kids? In a post-modern world, the spirit of the Berean’s to investigate to see if something were true (Acts 17:11), is easily trumped by emotional antidote.  However, as a YWAMer who has worked in Global Health and...

What Happens next?

Playable Covid-19 Epidemiology SimulatorGive it a try!Try your hand at this! For 25 years every student that came through my Community Health course or Applied Epidemiology seminar got a free app called EpiInfo, to both simulate epidemics and to help tease out the...

Ebola vaccine success: Race is now on to protect those at risk

Ebola vaccine success: Race is now on to protect those at risk   A vaccine can now protect against Ebola (Image: Cellou BinaniI/AFP/Getty Images)A vaccine for Ebola produced in just one year instead of the usual decade provides 100-per-cent protection against the...

Practical Approaches in fighting Malaria

Only the female Anopheles mosquito caries malaria and only they put their tale up when they bite you. If the tail’s not up, it’s not a malaria mosquito.       I took this with my son’s camera at the YWAM Clinic in Kangulumira Uganda. You can...

Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts

Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts Legions spurned a long-proven vaccine, putting a generation at risk By JEANNE WHALEN and BETSY MCKAY PORT TALBOT, Wales—When the telltale rash appeared behind Aleshia Jenkins’s ears, her grandmother...