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Swine flu vaccine is safe, they say: but I am seeing nasty coincidences
Real data is important, and anecdotes are just anecdotal. Yet during the past 3 weeks I have been personally involved with 3 events that have me concerned. I am a doctor on an island of 13,000 people, where hundreds received swine flu vaccine. Coincidence 1: several hours after getting the swine flu vaccine, a man…
Last July, FDA’s examination of the Medicare database revealed an excess of heart attacks, pulmonary emboli, and two bleeding disorders post Pfizer vaccination.
An AEI is an adverse event of special interest, in other words, one that FDA has already determined it should be seeking. Here is what the FDA posted about it: … near real-time surveillance detected four potential AEIs in the Medicare healthcare claims database of persons aged 65 years and older who had received the…
The CIA should cooperate with the Senate on torture report/ WaPo editorial
The Senate committee votes whether to declassify on April 3. Give the committee members your opinion. Maine’s Senators Collins and King will vote to declassify. Here is WaPo’s: AT THE heart of the dispute between the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency is a document known as the CIA’s internal review. This is…
Flu shots may interfere with broad immunity developed after natural infection / Vaccine
From a public health standpoint, a true pandemic flu–a la 1918–is what might cause really large mortality and morbidity. Seasonal flu causes a few hundred deaths in healthy people, and perhaps a few thousand in the frail elderly in the US each year. (We don’t have a good count of cases, and rely on modeling…
Apparently Ebola, like Tuberculosis or Lyme bacteria and many known viruses, can remain in your body for years after infection
Ebola Virus RNA detection in Semen More than Two Years after Resolution of Acute Ebola Virus Infection Abstract Among 149 men who survived Ebola virus disease (EVD) and donated semen 260–1016 days after EVD onset, Ebola virus (EBOV) ribonucleic acid (RNA) was detected in 13 (9%). Of 137 men who donated semen 2 years after…
New adjuvants on horizon for influenza vaccines/ IDSA Annual Mtg
From the Infectious Diseases Society of America annual meeting comes this [WHO] discussion of how novel adjuvants affect the immune response, and how we can expect to see more of these adjuvants added to vaccines in the US: … Martin Friede, PhD, who heads the Technology Transfer Team within the Department on Innovation, Information, Evidence…