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From ABC News in NYC: The outbreak of the mumps at Fordham University has spread from one campus to another. There are now 13 reported cases, 12 at the Rose Hill campus in the Bronx and one at the Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan.  The symptoms are similar to the flu, but the virus can…

The 2010-11 flu season is now over.  Where do we stand in terms of vaccination and deaths from flu? The influenza vaccine is said to have been a good match to the majority of strains that circulated during this flu season. One hundred two (102) pediatric deaths were reported to CDC from the entire US for the flu…

Will Requiring Flu Vaccinations Leave Employers Feeling Under the Weather? Wednesday, January 4, 2017 With flu season quickly approaching, health care employers may be considering mandatory influenza vaccinations for their workforce. Mandatory vaccination policies may dramatically increase patient safety, but they may also cause friction within the workforce when employees object on religious grounds to…

Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment–a 68 page guide Zhejiang University School of Medicine Thanks to Jack Ma/ Alibaba for the web creation and English translation of the Chinese guidelines found to be most useful in clinical care of COVID-19!

Beginning in April, 2009 we heard from the talking health heads, especially WHO Director General Margaret Chen’s, about the world-threatening pandemic swine flu.  Her pronouncements sold a lot of Tamiflu and vaccines.  (Probably at least 5-10 Billion dollars’ worth worldwide; anyway, the price tag was so high we never got a straight answer from the…

Reuters makes big news of a study showing that Glaxo’s swine flu vaccine (which contains ASO3 adjuvant) induced a stronger immune response than an unadjuvanted Baxter vaccine. This is nothing to crow about.  Everyone agrees that adjuvants boost the immune response; the question is how much increased autoimmune illness or other adverse events occur as…