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Wild poliovirus in China
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The World Health Organization has confirmed that cases of poliomyelitis in China were caused by wild poliovirus type 1:
1 SEPTEMBER 2011 – The Ministry of Health, China, has informed WHO that wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been isolated from four young children, aged between four months and two years, with onset of paralysis between 3 and 27 July 2011. All four cases are from Hetian prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, China. Genetic sequencing of the isolated viruses indicates they are genetically-related to viruses currently circulating in Pakistan. The last WPV case in China was reported in 1999, due t...
Source: virology blog - September 7, 2011 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Events Information China eradication outbreak poliomyelitis poliovirus vaccine viral virology Source Type: blogs
MMR Victim Refused Compensation For Not Being Disabled EnoughEmail this article to a colleague.
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Katie Stephen was injured by the MMR vaccine
It has now been proven that the ‘Vaccine Damage Payments Unit’ (VDPU) not only cherry pick who they award compensation to, depending on the level of disability but also change their rules to suit their needs, as they go along.
Katie Stephen has been left permanently and profoundly deaf in her left ear as a result of receiving the now banned MMR vaccine Pluserix. Despite her injury however, Katie has been refused compensation for her disability because the VDPU deems her to be less than 60% disabled.
Katie Stephen was a healthy baby girl when she was injected with the MMR...
Source: vactruth.com - September 2, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Katie Stephen MMR Pluserix Vaccine Damage Payments Unit Source Type: blogs
Article Recommends Herpes Zoster Vaccine For Adults Over 60Email this article to a colleague.
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I am often asked by elder persons whether or not they should take the herpes zoster (“shingles”) vaccine. Up until this point, I have been answering “yes” based on my own experience, but now there is some data to support this recommendation.
In the article, “Herpes Zoster Vaccine in Older Adults and the Risk of Subsequent Herpes Zoster Disease,” Hung Fu Tseng and his colleagues reported their findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA 2011;305[2]:160-161). They evaluated the risk of herpes zoster after persons received the vaccine in a general practice setting.
In a retrospective (looking...
Source: Better Health - September 2, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Paul Auerbach, M.D. Tags: Research Herpes Zoster Hung Fu Tseng Immune System JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association Older Adults ophthalmic shingles Study Vaccine Source Type: blogs
Should The US Compensate Injured Trial Patients?Email this article to a colleague.
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Earlier this week, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues declared that US-funded researchers knew they violated ethical standards when they deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphillis in the 1940s. The US apologized last year and the panel was convened to investigate and a final report is due later this year.
About 1,300 people were infected with venereal disease, more than half of them with syphilis, including inmates who were exposed to infected prostitutes brought into jails, and male and female patients in a mental hospital. Some subjects had bacteria pour...
Source: Pharmalot - September 1, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Bioethics Clinical Trials Guatemala National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Syphillis Vaccines Source Type: blogs
TWiV 146: Draco’s potionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Abbie Smith
Vincent, Rich, and Abbie review a broad spectrum antiviral protein, and selective pressure applied by a failed HIV-1 vaccine.
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Source: virology blog - August 28, 2011 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology AIDS antiviral apoptosis broad spectrum double stranded RNA draco HIV pkr selection t cell epitope vaccine virus Source Type: blogs
I Got the Wrong Request from the Wrong Journal to Review the Wrong Piece. The Wrong kind of Open Access Apparently, Something Wrong with this Inherently…Email this article to a colleague.
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Meanwhile you might want to listen to “Wrong” (Depeche Mode) Yesterday I screened my spam-folder. Between all male enhancement and lottery winner announcements, and phishing mails for my bank account, there was an invitation to peer review a paper in “SCIENCE JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY”. Such an invitation doesn’t belong in the spam folder, doesn’t it? Thus [...]
Source: Laika's MedLibLog - August 27, 2011 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: laikaspoetnik Tags: copyright Publications Spam ethics Health John Morrison Journal Journals Medicine MMR vaccine controversy Open Access Peer review phD phishing plagiarism Scam Source Type: blogs
HPV Vaccine Rates Trail Other Teen VaccinesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Despite strong endorsements from public health officials, teenage vaccination rates for the HPV vaccine are trailing the other two vaccines recommended for teens and pre-teens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The two vaccines approved to combat the human papillomavirus are Gardasil, which is sold by Merck, and Cervarix, which is sold by GlaxoSmithKline.
To be specific, coverage was 49 percent for one dose of HPV vaccine; 63 percent for MenACWY, which protects against meningococcal meningitis; and 69 percent for the TDP vaccine, which guards against tetanus, diptheria and pertussis. Meanwhile, c...
Source: Pharmalot - August 26, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized CDC Centers for Disease Control And Prevention Cervarix Gardasil GlaxoSmithKline HPV Human Papillomarvirus Merck Vaccine Vaccines Source Type: blogs
Families Sue Their Lawyers For Negligence Over MMR CasesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The tables have turned on lawyers.
The Times reported that three families are taking legal action against their former lawyers, claiming that the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccination withdrawn in 1992, caused their children to develop encephalitis and not autism. They are saying that they are suing because they believe that their former lawyers were negligent when they lumped their cases in with more than 1000 other discredited autism and bowel disease claims. The three cases were dropped as part of the class action in 2003 along with all the other cases.
Hannah Devlin Science Correspondent for The Times w...
Source: vactruth.com - August 19, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Dr. Andrew Wakefield encephalitis MMR vaccine Source Type: blogs
Murdoch’s Vaccine WorldEmail this article to a colleague.
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This article explains, in my opinion, how the pharmaceutical industry and money interests ‘play the game’.
I hope Mr. Newton doesn’t mind my quoting his article, but I could not have said it any better and I certainly don’t want to take his thunder. He’s done a fantastic job, which I applaud, and want to spotlight.
First, Newtown sets up the piece with some histrionics:
A 2010 exposure of Murdoch’s Times of London revealed that it had published forged documents purporting to show that Iran planned to do nuclear experiments for an atomic weapon, and as Michael Collins at Oped News points out, it was Murdoch&...
Source: vactruth.com - July 22, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: By Author Catherine Frompovich Top Stories DNA vaccines Dr. Andrew Wakefield MMR vaccine pharmaceuticals rupert murdoch The Lancet Source Type: blogs
What Is It You Don’t Get About Vaccines?Email this article to a colleague.
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With more parents questioning vaccines, we are starting to see Mainstream Media 'turning up the heat' on the rhetoric.
Monday, July 18, 2011, the Los Angeles Times ran the following op-ed article by David Ropeik: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ropeik-vaccines-20110718,0,4240440.story
Public health: Not vaccinated? Not acceptable
Wow! I thought. Is that draconian, fascist, or even Hitlerian-like in principle? So, I considered what a one-sentence rebuttal could be to such apparent outrageousness on the part of someone who, perhaps, does not know the ‘toxic ingredients’ in vaccines nor ...
Source: vactruth.com - July 18, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: By Author Catherine Frompovich Top Stories brain inflammation herd immunity toxic vaccine ingredients vaccinations vaccines Source Type: blogs
Transgenic mice susceptible to poliovirusEmail this article to a colleague.
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Yesterday I terminated the last remaining mice in my small colony, including the line of poliovirus receptor transgenic mice that we established here in 1990. Remarkably, I had never written about this animal model for poliomyelitis which has played an important role in the work done in my laboratory.
While I was still working on poliovirus as a postdoctoral fellow with David Baltimore, I became interested in how the virus causes disease. There were no convenient animal models to study poliovirus pathogenesis, so I began to think about the cellular receptor for the virus and how it could be used to make a mouse model for i...
Source: virology blog - July 12, 2011 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information pathogenesis poliovirus pvr-tg Sabin vaccine transgenic mouse viral Source Type: blogs
Up And Down The Ladder… Job ChangesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hired someone new and exciting? Promoted a rising star? Finally solved that hard-to-fill spot? Share the news with us and we’ll share with it others. That’s right. Send us your announcements and we’ll find a home for them. Don’t be shy. Everyone wants to know who is coming and going, especially with all the layoffs. Despite the downsizing, there is movement. Here are some of the latest changes. Recognize anyone?
And here is our regular feature. Send us a photo and we will spotlight a different person each week. This time around, we note that MTI, which provides marketing systems to drugmakers and biotechs, hired Mi...
Source: Pharmalot - July 8, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Acura Pharmaceuticals AmerisourceBergen Celldex Therapeutics Crescendo Biologics Euthymics Bioscience IAVI International AIDS Vaccine Initiative Merck Merck-Serono MetaCure MTI SanofiPasteur SCM Pharma Shire Pharm Source Type: blogs
Poliomyelitis after a twelve year incubation periodEmail this article to a colleague.
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Analysis of poliovirus recovered from the stool of a patient with fatal poliomyelitis revealed that she had been infected with the virus 12 years earlier, probably when one of her children received the oral poliovirus vaccine. This case has the longest known incubation period for vaccine-derived poliomyelitis, and highlights our still rudimentary understanding of how poliovirus causes disease.
The patient in this case, a 44 year old woman from Minnesota, had been diagnosed with common variable immunodeficiency (CVI) in 1991. Patients with this disease lack B lymphocytes and therefore cannot produce antibodies that help c...
Source: virology blog - June 30, 2011 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information chronic infection common variable immunodeficiency poliovirus Sabin vaccine vaccine derived poliomyelitis viral Source Type: blogs
Antibiotics in VaccinesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Antibiotics are in your vaccines.
On June 2, 2011, The New York Times posted an online editorial that caught my eye, “The High Cost of Cheap Meat,” in which small doses of antibiotics in animal feed were discussed as the probable cause of the growing concern over an ineffectiveness in eliminating bacterial ‘super bugs’ that are overwhelming our immune systems and the practice of medicine. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/opinion/03fri3.html
However, this ‘gem’ really sums up the issue: Last week, the Natural Resources Defense Council, joined by other advocacy groups, sued the Food and Drug Administration to co...
Source: vactruth.com - June 24, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: By Author Catherine Frompovich Top Stories antibiotic food residues cellular immune system factory farm animals humoral immune system vaccine antibiotics Source Type: blogs
Ampligen® To Be Tested In Phase I/II Study In Tandem With UPenn Ovarian Cancer VaccineEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hemispherx Biopharma’s Ampligen® is being tested in combination with an experimental ovarian cancer vaccine developed by the Penn Ovarian Cancer Research Center. Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. (“Hemispherx”) announced yesterday that it entered into a Material Transfer and Research Agreement with the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine to provide Ampligen® [rintatolimod; poly(I)•poly(C12,U)], an experimental therapeutic, for [...]
Source: Libby's H*O*P*E* - June 22, 2011 Category: Cancer Authors: Libby's H*O*P*E* Tags: Clinical Trials Pipeline Drugs Vaccines Abramson Cancer Ctr. Ampligen autologous OC-L vaccine George Coukos M.D. Ph.D. Hemispherx Biopharma immunotherapy ovarian cancer rintatolimod toll-like receptor 3 University of Pennsylvania S Source Type: blogs
Vaccination Without Informed Consent Is Medical MalpracticeEmail this article to a colleague.
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What would you say if I told you that a European Union country’s Supreme Court says that vaccinations to attend school are NOT mandatory in that country, and anyone who vaccinates another person who suffers health damages is liable and can be sued for compensatory damages? Doesn’t that sound like legalese, as it should be, not some kind of whitewash or tort exemption by Parliament, since the country apparently doesn’t have a congress?
The country is Austria. The precipitating event was a Hepatitis B vaccine given to a second year student on October 11, 2004, which caused inflammation of the optic nerve that le...
Source: vactruth.com - June 12, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: Catherine Frompovich Top Stories Hepatitis B vaccine medical malpractice optic nerve inflammation school vaccinations Source Type: blogs
Part 2 of 3: An Interview About Vaccines with Helen V. Ratajczak, PhDEmail this article to a colleague.
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During her career, Dr. Ratajczak developed an ELISA assay for Rat Alpha-2-Macroglobulin, the most sensitive acute phase reactant protein for the rat, and also quantitated acute phase reactant proteins in the dog and monkey. She also conducted acute toxicology studies and both in vivo and in vitro immune assays, and has studied the immunotoxicologic properties of many compounds, including immunosuppressive and immunostimulatory drugs, in several animal species including mice, rats, nonhuman primates, and humans.
We continue on with my interview.
Q. 10. Will you please contrast a single dose vaccine versus mult...
Source: vactruth.com - June 8, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: Catherine Frompovich Top Stories Aluminum Thimerosal vaccine doses vaccine peanut oil Source Type: blogs
Drugmakers Cut Vaccine Prices For Poor CountriesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Several big drugmakers have agreed to slash prices on some of their vaccines, which are distributed to poor people in developing countries by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, the non-profit that was established by Bill Gates. The move comes just days before a widely anticipated GAVI board meeting that will address, in part, plans to raise $3.7 billion in needed funds.
The price cuts are being offered by Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson’s Crucell unit, Sanofi Pasteur’s Shantha Biotechnics, Bharat Biotech and the Serum Institute, and should help GAVI reduce the funding gap for com...
Source: Pharmalot - June 6, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Bill Gates Crucell GAVI GlaxoSmithKline Haemophilus influenzae type b Hepatitis B HPV JJ Johnson & Johnson Merck Panacea Biotec Pertussis Rotavirus Sanofi Sanofi Pasteur Serum Institute Tetanus Vaccine Source Type: blogs
A Brief History Of Vaccines, The Anti-Vaccination Movement, And Modern QuackeryEmail this article to a colleague.
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A good case of smallpox may rid the system of more scrofulous, tubercular, syphilitic and other poisons than could otherwise be eliminated in a lifetime. Therefore, smallpox is certainly to be preferred to vaccination. The one means elimination of chronic disease, the other the making of it.
Naturopaths do not believe in artificial immunization . . .
—Harry Riley Spitler, Basic Naturopathy: a textbook (American Naturopathic Association, Inc., 1948). Quoted here.
Here’s what a good case of smallpox will do for you:
If you’re lucky enough to beat the reaper (20-60%; 80% or higher in infants) or blindness (up to 30%),...
Source: Better Health - June 6, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: DrKimballAtwood Tags: Quackery Exposed Anti-Vaccine Chiropractic Epidemiology Health Fraud History Homeopathy Naturopathy NCCAM Public Health Vaccines Source Type: blogs
Cut-price vax for developing worldEmail this article to a colleague.
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Drug firms cut vaccine prices in developing world – This is good news: Several major drugs companies have announced big cuts to the amounts they charge for their vaccines in the developing world. GSK, Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi-Aventis have agreed to cut prices through the international vaccine alliance Gavi. I can think of one problem, however, aside from the antivax conspiracy theory nonsens that will arise, and that's the potential for blackmarket profiteering…
Related Posts:H5N1 Vaccine AvailableBird Flu VaccineNeedle free bird flu vaccineEradicating polioThe push and pull of third world d...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - June 6, 2011 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Aventis cut developing drug firms Gavi GSK Johnson Merck prices Sanofi sciencebase vaccination vaccine vaccines world Source Type: blogs
Top 5 Vaccine Stories for MayEmail this article to a colleague.
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We have scoured the web to bring you the top news headlines from around the world. Stay current in the latest affairs surrounding vaccines, Pharma, and the authorities who support them.
1. Infant mortality rates regressed against number of vaccine doses routinely given: Is there a biochemical or synergistic toxicity?
http://het.sagepub.com/content/early/2011/05/04/0960327111407644
A brand new study published by Neil Z Miller and Gary S Goldman indicates an alarming trend between high vaccine uptake and infant mortality rates. It was found that in populations where infants received increased doses of vaccine, the infant mo...
Source: vactruth.com - May 31, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Bunny St. Marie Tags: Bunny St. Marie Top Stories Infant Mortality measles Mercury Top 5 Vaccine-Autism Link Source Type: blogs
Vaccines Alternative to ThimerosalEmail this article to a colleague.
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There’s an adage that goes something like this: “Jumping from the frying pan into the fire.” Perhaps that can apply to what’s been happening in vaccine manufacture since the trend is to replace Thimerosal (49.6% mercury) with a ‘safer’ and ‘less toxic’ substitute: 2-Phenoxyethanol (2-PE). Whether 2-PE is a safer vaccine preservative needs to be investigated. Furthermore, does FDA have safety studies for 2-PE?
Ready for this? 2-PE also is known as antifreeze! Now, how much safer is injecting an infant with antifreeze than mercury, when both are toxic? Phenoxyethanol can induce blood, kidney, liver and centra...
Source: vactruth.com - May 30, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: Catherine Frompovich Top Stories 2-Phenoxyethanol (2-PE) Thimerosal Vaccine Source Type: blogs
Vaccine Group Plagued By Conflict Of InterestEmail this article to a colleague.
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File this under sticking point. The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations is coming under fire because a large vaccine maker that provides most of its income is about to become a pharma representative on its board. The move is prompting concerns about conflicts of interest amid demands for lower vaccine prices, The Financial Times writes.
In July, Johnson & Johnson’s recently acquired Crucell unit will replace GlaxoSmithKline on the GAVI board (see this), which next month meets in London in hopes of raising $3.7 billion. But some non-governmental organizations say GAVI, which last year sent $825 million...
Source: Pharmalot - May 27, 2011 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Crucell Doctors Without Borders DWB GAVI GlaxoSmithKline Global Alliance for Vaccine Immunizations JJ Johnson & Johnson Medecins Sans Frontiers MSF UNICEF Source Type: blogs
Aluminum in Vaccines: Where Are the Safety Studies?Email this article to a colleague.
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Since the 1930s vaccine makers have been using aluminum as an adjuvant in vaccines. However, from what I’ve been able to gather over years of researching vaccines and vaccinations, there doesn’t seem to be studies determining aluminum safety issues. If such studies exist, I hereby request the U.S. CDC and FDA please publish them and supply me with a copy, as I’d love to ‘digest’ and dissect them.
As a matter of fact, when Congressman Dan Burton held his vaccine-autism link hearings from 1999-2004, the question that FDA was asked repeatedly was, Where are your [safety] studies? The FDA’s reply was that they woul...
Source: vactruth.com - May 26, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: By Author Catherine Frompovich Top Stories Aluminum CDC Vaccine Safety Source Type: blogs
Do You Know How To Recognize Deadly Bacterial Meningitis?Email this article to a colleague.
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One of the most feared infectious diseases for outdoor travelers—particularly children and young adults—meningitis caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis (meningococcus). The infection can appear in outbreaks, most commonly abroad, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and China.
The infection is spread in the respiratory secretions of humans. The disease appears in many forms, the most common of which are meningitis, pneumonia, and disseminated bacterial infection. The typical presentation of meningitis is fever, headache, and a stiff neck. If the cause is meningococcus, the victim may develop a skin rash...
Source: Better Health - May 26, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: DrPaulSAuerbach Tags: Health Tips Bacterial Meningitis Ciprofloxacin Diagnosis FDA Menactra Meningococcal Vaccine Meningococcus Treatment Source Type: blogs
TWiV 134: Meet Ralph, your cruise directorEmail this article to a colleague.
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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Stephanie Karst
Vincent, Rich, Alan, and Dickson review noroviruses with Stephanie Karst, PhD.
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Source: virology blog - May 22, 2011 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology calicivirus gastroenteritis norovirus stephanie karst vaccine viral Source Type: blogs
Small investments in their future, great gains for Africa and usEmail this article to a colleague.
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By Lois Privor-Dumm. We’ve all heard these words: “There is tremendous need here at home,” or “money in Africa has been wasted for so long.” This is why this simple video from the ONE campaign struck me. Through a public health lens it is a no-brainer: of course you want to spend on cost–effective interventions that will save lives. For others, while they admit that it is an admirable goal, the connection is not made. In times of financial uncertainty, we have to be more careful with our money, don’t we?
One of the best and prudent ways to invest though, is in future generations. In the US, we provi...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 20, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Children Global Health AFrica GAVI Alliance ONE Campaign Pneumococcal vaccine Source Type: blogs
UK Paediatrician and MSBP Expert Knew Babies Suffered Breathing Problems and Died After VaccinationEmail this article to a colleague.
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Over the last two years I have seen two documentaries both entitled ‘A Very Dangerous Doctor’. Both featured the work and research of the now discredited Professor David Southall. It has puzzled me how these documentaries failed to mention the crucial evidence of Lisa Blakemore-Brown and instead both chose to focus their attention on the work and evidence of Munchausen by Proxy campaigner and Southall hater Ms Penny Mellor.
Ms Blakemore-Brown began to speak out about this incredibly dangerous man back in 1995/1996 long before Penny Mellor had even been heard of. However, instead of the fame and glory that has b...
Source: vactruth.com - May 19, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Child Abuse Christina England Death DTP MMR Munchausen by Proxy Seizure Shaken Baby Syndrome Top Stories adverse Reactions Lisa Blakemore-Brown Penny Mellor Professor David Southall Professor Roy Meadow Sally Clark vaccine re Source Type: blogs
Big Pharma’s Sugar Daddy: The U.S. CongressEmail this article to a colleague.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011, I had the distinct pleasure of viewing a live feed of the press conference held on the steps of the U.S. Vaccine Court in Washington, DC, where attorneys representing clients and families damaged by vaccines, particularly autism disorder spectrum disabilities, challenged the U.S. Congress to investigate what’s really going on with the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, the U.S. Vaccine Court set up under the statute creating that law, and its unfair compensation tactics.
While reading a companion article, “Unanswered Questions From The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Review of Com...
Source: vactruth.com - May 11, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: Catherine Frompovich Top Stories 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act US Congress Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Source Type: blogs
Cow Fetuses Contaminated Vaccines, FDA Did NothingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Media and public relation campaigns literally portray the U.S. FDA as superheroes. For example, the FDA came to the rescue about E. coli tainted spinach, Chinese-made baby formula containing melamine, and even removing salmonella-laced peanut butter from grocery store shelves. Those aforementioned events ought to be the measuring stick for parents to conceptualize one specific issue: vaccine contamination.
Parents need to ask: Are contaminated vaccines being injected into our babies? Many parents may be surprised to learn the answer is likely ‘yes’.
To illustrate that point, Gina Bari Kolata wrote an article in Februa...
Source: vactruth.com - May 9, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jeffry John Aufderheide Tags: Jeffry John Aufderheide Top Stories FDA Phage Polio Vaccine Vaccine Contamination Source Type: blogs
Hepatitis BEmail this article to a colleague.
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HBV Some of the highest rates of hepatitis B are in alcoholics and addicts. Hepatitis B is a liver disease caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). The virus is carried in blood and body fluids. It can lead to serious liver damage, life-long infection, liver cancer, liver failure and even death. Fortunately, there is a vaccine that can protect you against HBV.BackgroundHBV is one of a group of viruses that attacks the liver. Many hepatitis viruses have been identified but three – known as A, B, and C – cause about 90% of the acute hepatitis cases.HBV is the most common form of hepatitis virus in the world. It is ...
Source: Recovery Is Sexy.com - May 7, 2011 Category: Addiction Authors: Sparrow Tags: Addictions Alcoholism Disease Treatment cancer HBV hepatitis B liver damage vaccine virus Source Type: blogs
Pfizer tests vaccine education via SMSEmail this article to a colleague.
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VAXTEXT, the new SMS promotion by Pfizer, is looking to create awareness and inform the public about childhood vaccinations. This is currently being tested in the Las Vegas, Phoenix and Miami markets, three of the major metropolitan areas where childhood vaccinations are low. The goal of the promotion is to send personalized texts educating parents on their options for vaccines, what illnesses they can prevent and the optimal timelines for receiving them. Parents can sign up for alerts at vaxtext.com.
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Source: ePharma Summit - May 5, 2011 Category: Medical Marketing and PR Tags: Vaccine education Doctors and mobile usage Vaccine Awareness #epharma Source Type: blogs
What Is The Pseudo-Science in Vaccines?Email this article to a colleague.
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A one-word answer is: Ingredients, otherwise known as adjuvants, excipients and growth mediums. The science spun around them is so outrageously counter to human biochemistry, one has to wonder what’s wrong with oversight agencies such as U.S. CDC, FDA, Congress, plus medical doctors, nurses, and gung-ho health advocates who spout vaccines and vaccinations are ‘safe’.
Adjuvants
Adjuvants are those ‘ingredients’ in vaccines that supposedly enhance immune response but, in reality, can harm brain cells, particularly in children, which often is the cause of vaccine-induced encephalitis, but attributed to parent...
Source: vactruth.com - May 4, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: Catherine Frompovich Top Stories Pseudo Science vaccine ingredients Source Type: blogs
Breast Cancer: Can We Stop It With a Vaccine?Email this article to a colleague.
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Osama bin Laden is gone — now let’s target breast cancer.
Like a terrorist, breast cancer is merciless and unrelenting. We don’t know where it is hiding and when the next attack is going to come. Just as there was a concerted effort to bring down bin Laden, there are countless agents working diligently on eradicating breast cancer. It poses the same threat as terrorism — it strikes fear in families and kills the innocent. Breast cancer over the years has killed as many if not more people than terrorists.
In 2010, there was a lot of talk about work on a vaccine for breast cancer. It has since died down, but...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - May 3, 2011 Category: Cancer Authors: admin Tags: Breast cancer research breast cancer blog breast cancer prevention breast cancer reasearch vaccine Source Type: blogs
HIV/AIDS in Africa Caused Through Doctors Vaccinating With Contaminated NeedlesEmail this article to a colleague.
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In 1998 the San Francisco Chronicle published an article by Reynolds Holding and William Carlsen entitled ‘DEADLY NEEDLES Fast Track to Global Disaster’. The article describes how children in Nairobi were combing through piles of rubbish in search of used hypodermic syringes to sell to private clinics in Kenya and India.
A photo of a small child surrounded by filth and squalor holding a used syringe, complete with needle, to sell to private clinics is the powerful image used for the piece. The caption reads:
“Nairobi child scavenges for used syringes. Private clinics sometimes buy them. “It’s a bi...
Source: vactruth.com - May 2, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Polio Top Stories AIDS HIV Vaccine Contamination Source Type: blogs
UK Nurse Gave Vaccine To Child Without Consent To Meet Government GoalsEmail this article to a colleague.
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A UK nurse has been accused of vaccinating a child with the MMR without his mothers consent to hit vaccine targets. The Daily Mail has reported that a Birmingham mother has made an official complaint stating that a nurse at the ‘Pak Medical Centre’ gave her son the MMR without her permission. Robina Siddique told the newspaper that she firmly believes that nurse Rashiela Parekh vaccinated her three year old son purely to meet vaccination targets.
Siddique claims that she took her son to the clinic for the DPT vaccination making it very clear at the time that she did not want her son to have the MMR. This was be...
Source: vactruth.com - April 16, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Autism Christina England DTP MMR Top Stories andrew wakefield Lisa Blakemore-Brown Psychologist measles vaccination Vaccine Source Type: blogs
What Everyone Needs To Know About Kids Vaccinations – A Parent’s Check ListEmail this article to a colleague.
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This article is different in format and style insofar as it provides basic information regarding specifics that parents, in particular, may want to know about and/or need regarding vaccines and vaccinating their children.
Informed Consent
That term conjures up an oxymoron because even though there are statutes on the books to protect individuals, when it comes to vaccines, I think there is a nonsequitur.
Probably the ‘granddaddy’ of all medical ethics, oaths, and laws is the Hippocratic Oath dating back somewhere in the fifth century BCE, as compared with the currently administered, updated version that Dr. Louis Lasag...
Source: vactruth.com - April 15, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: Catherine Frompovich Top Stories Parent's Checklist Vaccine Source Type: blogs
Baruch S. Blumberg, MD, 1925-2011Email this article to a colleague.
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Glenn Rall, a virologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, sent me the following note:
Baruch S. Blumberg, Nobel Laureate in 1976 for discovery of Hepatitis B (and the eventual development of the vaccine, which probably has saved hundreds of thousands of lives since its introduction), died this past Tuesday (4/5/11). Barry did most of his work at Fox Chase, though he was an inspiration to many of us, and a catalyst for some tremendously exciting scientific conversations. He was active in science all through his life; in fact, just a few weeks ago, he gave a seminar at the Center, and on the morning of the day of his death, he ...
Source: virology blog - April 11, 2011 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Events Information australia antigen baruch blumberg hepatitis b virus liver cancer vaccine viral virology Source Type: blogs
The ‘Unknown’ About Polio Vaccine: SV40 and CancerEmail this article to a colleague.
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After half a century, the 108th U.S. Congress House of Representatives Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness finally held a hearing September 10, 2003, on the simian virus (SV40) that was included in the original polio vaccine produced and administered to children in the 1950s and 1960s.
Candidly, the first page of the transcript for the hearing states:
There is no dispute that millions of Americans received polio vaccines that were contaminated with the virus called Simian Virus 40, or SV–40. There also is no dispute that SV–40 is capable of causing cancer, but there is a major dispute as to how many Americans may...
Source: vactruth.com - April 9, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: By Author Catherine Frompovich Top Stories Cancer Polio Vaccine SV40 Source Type: blogs
Mother Jailed for Taking Vaccine Damaged Daughter Off the Drug RisperdalEmail this article to a colleague.
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A mother from Detroit was jailed this week for trying to protect herself and her daughter from the police and the CPS. Maryanne Godboldo’s problems began when her daughter aged 13 was given mandatory vaccinations. The shots were given to her daughter to enable her to begin public school. Shortly after the vaccines, Ms Godboldo noticed a sudden change in daughters behaviour. Her daughter became easily irritated, suffering severe mood swings with episodes of facial grimacing. Worried about her daughters strange and ‘uncharacteristic behaviour’ she asked the ‘The Children’s Centre’ for help...
Source: vactruth.com - April 1, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: ADD/ADHD Autism Christina England MMR Top Stories adverse reaction MMR vaccine vaccines Source Type: blogs
Is There A Paradox About Vaccines?Email this article to a colleague.
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Sometimes humor can’t be beaten for driving home a point, especially when it comes to a paradox. The word paradox implies absurdity, contradiction, illogicality, inconsistency, and irony. There are many paradoxes in life but none so ludicrous [preposterous, ridiculous, absurd] as those that exist within the fields of health, healing, medicine, and, most of all, pharmaceuticals, a conclusion I came to after years of listening to double-speak, back pedaling, and the pseudo-science Big Pharma puts out in advertising, lobbying, and advertising scare tactics. Listen closely to their ads and you will understand what I mean.
Pr...
Source: vactruth.com - March 29, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: Catherine Frompovich Top Stories Autism neurodevelopmental disorders Vaccine Safety Source Type: blogs
The Importance of Getting Factual Information on VaccinationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Early in March 2011, the world was traumatized by a series of most devastating events in Japan. An earthquake registering 9 on the Richter scale, followed by an almost eighty- foot-high tsunami in some areas, washed inland destroying untold thousands of lives, entire towns and villages, while breaching several nuclear power plant reactors that continue to contaminate the globe with deadly radiation that poisons food and water sources, may ruin the Japanese economy, and cause untold suffering from cancer.
Sadly, information about the amounts of radiation spreading across the Pacific Ocean into the western United States is b...
Source: vactruth.com - March 27, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Catherine J. Frompovich Tags: Catherine Frompovich Investigating Vaccines Top Stories Vaccine Safety Source Type: blogs
Children Die Minutes After Measles Vaccine in IndiaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Reports are coming in of four infants under the age of one dying minutes after the measles vaccine. The vaccination programme has been suspended and the batch has been sent for testing.
The children all from a slum colony in Adipur town in the Kutch district died soon after being given vaccines by the district health department. The bodies of the four infants have been sent for post mortem to determine the exact cause of death and a high level inquiry has began.
If any negligence is found Narendra Modi the Chief Minister has promised to take strong action. The chief added that if any staff member is found to be guilty they...
Source: vactruth.com - March 21, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Measles Vaccine vaccine deaths Source Type: blogs
Dr. Paul Offit returns to Books and Ideas podcastEmail this article to a colleague.
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In his new book Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All pediatrican Dr Paul A. Offit traces the history of the anti-vaccine movement from opposition to the small pox vaccine in the 19th century up through recent events. Unfortunately, the results are predictable. Reducing vaccination rates lead to reemergence of dangerous preventable infectious diseases. That is why the decision not to vaccinate is not a personal decision. It is one that involves the whole community.
This is the focus of the conversation I had with Dr. Offit in Episode 40 of Books and Ideas. This is a follow-up to Dr. Offit's first i...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - March 7, 2011 Category: Neurologists Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books and Ideas Podcast Deadly Decisions Paul Offit Podcast Show Notes medicine public health vaccine safety vaccines Source Type: blogs
New Study Links HPV To Head And Neck Cancers In MenEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new study finds that half of men in America are infected with the HPV virus. Dr. Jon LaPook reports on the growing concern that the virus in men could be responsible for an increase in head and neck cancers.
HPV Affects Half Of U.S. Men
A study out [yesterday] in The Lancet by Moffitt Cancer Center researcher Anna Giuliano, Ph.D., and her colleagues finds that 50 percent of men ages 18 to 70 in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. have genital infection with human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is the virus that causes cervical cancer in women. It also causes warts and cancer of the genitals and anus in both men and women. Ove...
Source: Better Health - March 2, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: DrJonLaPook Tags: News Research Video CBS News CDC Centers For Disease Control and Prevention Cervical Cancer Dr. Aimee Kreimer Dr. Anna Giuliano Dr. Jon LaPook Gardasil Genital Infection Head and Neck Cancer HPV HPV Strain 16 HPV Vaccine Hu Source Type: blogs
Dr. Ari Brown On Dr. Oz: “A Very Inaccurate View Of Vaccines”Email this article to a colleague.
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Dr. Ari Brown, a pediatrician and author, was [recently] on The Dr. Oz Show. She was asked to join a discussion about autism. Dr. Brown is a board-certified developmental pediatrician, a mom of two, and an advocate for science. She is passionate and clear about what she believes. She is speaking all over the country about how to protect children from illness, particularly when making decisions about vaccines. She contributed ideas in my series in late 2010 entitled, “Do You Believe in Vaccines: Part I, Part II, and Part III.”
On Dr. Oz, she was asked to contribute to a discussion about autism that ultimately focused o...
Source: Better Health - March 1, 2011 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: DrWendySueSwanson Tags: Health Tips Opinion AAP American Academy of Pediatrics Anti-Vaccine Movement Autism-Vaccine Link Children's Health Children's Vaccinations Conspiracy Theories Dr. Ari Brown Dr. Bob Sears Dr. Natasha Burgert Dr. Oz Dr. Wendy Sue S Source Type: blogs
