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Adverse events following influenza vaccination in Australia–should we be surprised? BMJ Rapid Response
From the May 7 BMJ Online, authored by Peter Collignon, Peter Doshi, Tom Jefferson There have been large numbers of major adverse reactions to this year’s seasonal influenza vaccine in Australia, and the vaccine has been suspended for use in children aged five and under… Assuming all convulsions were in children, about one child in…
Confused vaccine messages in the UK/ Telegraph
The UK’s Telegraph is on a tear about flu vaccine. Two weeks ago, the Telegraph complained that the UK government had dropped its flu vaccine advertising campaign. Last year the UK spent 15 million pounds for swine flu vaccine ads. But people are being vaccinated nonetheless: After earlier complaints that the failure to advertise flu…
Dugway does not just make anthrax. What else got sent out live?
USA Today reported that a CDC study found that anthrax spore killing had not been standardized using control spore samples at Dugway. Tests of different spore concentrations and volumes had not been tested against different radiation doses to ascertain the degree of lethality of the process under varying conditions. It seems remarkable to me that…
Did Swine Flu Cases Reach Their Peak?
According to CDC, weekly swine flu hospitalizations began dropping the last week of October; the death rate also dropped. UPDATE: I called CDC on Monday, November 9, to ask why this wasn’t updated, as usually occurs on Fridays. I was told that 15 deaths (swine flu) and 3 deaths (non-subtyped influenza A) were reported last…
Pakistani agents ‘funding and training Afghan Taliban’ — Why are we in Afghanistan, anyway?/ BBC
UPDATE June 14 (NY Times): The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials. It turns out that the information on Afghanistan’s level of…
West African Money pox is supposed to be what the current western Moneypox came from.
So much for the scary death rates. Ignore mortality rates of 1%, 10% and all the other numbers plucked from thin air. From Stat: Pressed yesterday, a WHO official said she didn’t think the outbreak outside Africa would lead to a pandemic, Reuters reported. “We don’t know but we don’t think so,” Rosamund Lewis said….