DOD’S Current Policy on Exemptions from Anthrax Vaccine
This slide is from a DOD presentation to medical providers.
The Globe updates us on the NECC tragedy/scandal. The outbreak of fungal meningitis due to contaminated drugs from New England Compounding Center brings to mind a 1997 FDA inspection and report of the Lansing, Michigan anthrax vaccine manufacturer, which at that time was a state of Michigan subsidiary: Michigan Biologic Products Institute. Many of the…
The BBC today notes that: The Council of Europe is planning an investigation, to begin later this month, into whether pharmaceutical companies influenced public health officials to spend money unnecessarily. In Geneva, a WHO spokeswoman acknowledged there were questions to be answered. She said the review of its management of the pandemic would be conducted…
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010 Sep 14;107(37):16262-7 They were setting the stage for an era of fear… and now distracting us while creating artificial shortages of fuel, fertilizer and food… softening us for the kill? doi: 10.1073/pnas.1005769107. Epub 2010 Aug 30. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1005769107 Major increase in human monkeypox incidence 30 years after smallpox vaccination…
WHO has published a formal response on its website to many of the criticisms published in the BMJ and by the Council of Europe last week. A few important points: 1. WHO appears to acknowledge lack of disclosure of conflicts of interest by experts involved in its 2004 pandemic plan. 2. WHO wiggles around the…
Not to put too fine a point on it, but today’s Reuters story has even more bad news on safety at our highest containment labs: According to a 2012 report by CDC scientists, there were 16 incidents of lost or escaped microbes from select-agent labs in 2004, meaning everything from misplaced samples to an infected…
Marcia Angell completes her tour de force analysis of the underpinnings of psychiatry and its medications in the second part of her article, “The Illusions of Psychiatry” in the NY Review of Books.