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What, in Fact, Is the Evidence That Vaccinating Healthcare Workers against Seasonal Influenza Protects Their Patients? A Critical Review/ Int J Family Medicine
Yet another just-published literature review, this time from Israel, finds mandatory healthcare worker flu vaccinations unsupported by the literature. Int J Family Med. 2012;2012:205464. doi: 10.1155/2012/205464. Epub 2012 Nov 11. What, in Fact, Is the Evidence That Vaccinating Healthcare Workers against Seasonal Influenza Protects Their Patients? A Critical Review. Abramson ZH. Source Department of Family Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah…
FDA announces the formula of the fall COVID-19 shot today. XBB. 1.5 I told you yesterday’s meeting was just window dressing, so FDA could spread the blame when the vaccine becomes a problem. Enjoy their weasel words.
Today, the FDA posted information on its website regarding the formula for COVID-19 vaccines for the 2023-2024 fall and winter seasons. The FDA has advised manufacturers seeking to update their COVID-19 vaccines that they should develop vaccines with a monovalent XBB.1.5 composition. This recommendation incorporates advisory committee input and is based on the totality of the…
UN Human Rights Committee Finds US in Violation on 25 Counts/ Truthout
This is a very long piece, but it needs to be said and all the points are important. The US’ record on Human Rights is pitiful, and our commitment to our international obligations doubly so. From Truthout: (Illustration: Lance Page / t r u t h o u t) While President Obama told the country to…
CDC Director Calls for another COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW of lab safety six months after the last one
UPDATE: 575 shipments, 192 total labs received live, incompletely irradiated Dugway anthrax. Congressional hearing held 7/28/15. (The subjects in my Cheer! below are among those mentioned by USAT on July 21, 2015–Nass) The CDC Cheer When anthrax spores are flying through its halls, whaddaya do? You know what to do: It’s a…
CDC “probing” how lab worker acquired salmonella infection/ Reuters
Today, CDC admits a lab worker got ill from a salmonella strain being studied. But I cannot tell what the disease was. Salmonella gastroenteritis? Typhoid fever? A complicated bloodborne infection that may affect the heart, joints, etc.? How long was the worker ill? Was this person spreading the infection via the oral-fecal route, as did…