UPDATE:  From the October 18 MailOnline: Ambulance chiefs face renewed pressure to explain the loss of a key medical record relating to the death of Dr David Kelly after the investigating police force said it had no record of ever having received the document. Bosses at South Central Ambulance NHS Trust were criticised last month…

More material has been released on the anthrax letters case by the Army: https://mrmc.amedd.army.mil/index.cfm?pageid=foia_reading_room.overview Contact for questions (the person overseeing the production) John P Mr CIV USA MEDCOM HQ Peterson   Also see:  http://www.newanthraxandalqaeda.com http://www.blurb.com/books/1443811 From: [redacted] To: [redacted] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:30 PM To: Subject: Question about MRIID (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats:…

People in Australia are waking up to the evidence that in some cases, vaccines cause more harm than good.  Furthermore, the longterm sequellae from a seizure are likely to be more serious than from flu.  From the Sydney Morning Herald Sept 18: PUBLIC health experts have called for an independent body to monitor drug safety…

From Charlie Savage at the NY Times: WASHINGTON – Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Essentially, officials want Congress to require all…

Although CDC said it would not support mandatory flu vaccinations for healthcare workers (imagine the lawsuits if this were a federal government mandate), various organizations have recently published policy statements* in favor of such mandatory inoculations for all workers in healthcare facilities. What is truly strange about this effort is that you cannot find convincing…

Detailed in a book review  of “Obama’s Wars” by Bob Woodward in today’s Washington Post: We have not declared war against Pakistan, and Congress has not approved making war in Pakistan.  Yet we illegally send drones there to kill, and our CIA runs a mercenary army in Pakistan.  The American Rule of Law is what…

Recently there have been criticisms that BARDA has not spent much of the 6 billion dollars set aside for biological and chemical warfare treatments and preventive strategies after 9/11.  In fact, a plan was introduced to transfer some of the monies into other programs. In good bureaucratic fashion, BARDA responded by spending.  Emergent BioSolutions, aka…

From MEDSCAPE: Like all flu seasons, mortality in the elderly was highest from swine flu during the 2009-10 season Preexisting antibodies were common in the elderly:  present in 88% of those aged 90-99, present in 27% of those aged 79, and present in 4-5% in those younger than 60. Six studies from Canada consistently found…

http://mobile.nj.com/advnj/pm_31088/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=324CEF6CC147295B74C534B1C27049AB?contentguid=Hg5hcoWW Matt Fair After years of questioning the conclusion and methods of an FBI investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and sickened dozens of others, Rep. Rush Holt (D-Hopewell) announced yesterday that the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is opening an inquiry into the matter. Holt, along with a handful of…

New Review of FBI’s Work in Anthrax Letters Case By Devlin Barrett, Wall Street Journal The investigative arm of Congress will take another look at the science the FBI used to determine who mailed deadly anthrax-laced letters in 2001. The Government Accountability Office has notified Rep. Rush Holt, a New Jersey Democrat, that the agency…

Despite a recent attempt to paint last year’s swine flu pandemic as more serious than thought, based on its higher attack rates and complications in a younger population, a new study using Wisconsin data, reported by Agence France Presse, calls those conclusions into question: Children, which the 2009 H1N1 pandemic infection appeared to disproportionately affect,…