Very nice summary article by Helen Branswell regarding assumptions scientists have made about influenza, and how many of these assumptions have had to be discarded, as swine influenza furnished plenty of surprising facts.
The Dutch health minister overbought swine flu vaccine, ignoring official advice of authorities in Holland. What did WHO recommend at that point in time? From Dutch News: Health minister Ab Klink ignored advice from both the Dutch vaccine and public health institutes when he bought 34 million doses of swine flu vaccine last year, RTL…
Thursday, 04 March 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, reiterated his call for an independent investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks which killed five people and sickened 17. He issued the following statement: “Despite the FBI’s assertion that the…
From 3/2008 CIDRAP: Until now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is advised by the ACIP, recommended flu vaccination for children from 6 through 59 months old. The new ACIP recommendation expands the target groups to include children from ages 5 through 18 years. That adds about 30 million children to the…
A new paper on anthrax vaccine safety, presumably published to support DHHS’ desire to test the vaccine in small children, has just been published online. Its authors are all from CDC, and most have previously published papers of very poor quality supporting the so-called safety of anthrax vaccine. I don’t understand why they still have…
WHO’s Strategic Group of Experts Working Group on Avian Flu (H5N1) Vaccine is working on “evidence-based recommendations” for using up stockpiles of avian flu vaccine that are reaching their expiration date. From WHO’s website: “Facilitate a SAGE review and decision on potential evidence-based recommendations on the use during the current inter-pandemic period of: H5N1 influenza…