Reply to Questions Posed by the House Veterans Affairs Committee regarding Gulf War Illnesses

If the FBI cannot place Ivins at the scene of the crime (the Princeton mailbox) on the required dates, then who cares what sorority houses might be near the mailbox? The sorority angle becomes irrelevant, since he did not mail the letters in Princeton. Remember, this is one of the most complex, expensive cases in…

Dr. Flegel, a professor of medicine and senior associate editor of the CMAJ, last week weighed in to support compulsory flu vaccinations on the basis that the following was met: “… there must be an outbreak of serious illness; immunity levels must be low; the vaccine must be effective, safe and available; and vaccine uptake must be low.”…

Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: results of an open label non-randomized clinical trial 20 patients were treated, 16 patients (unmatched, nonrandomized) were controls, 6 treated patients lost to followup, in some cases due to worsening Update:  on March 25, India banned the export of hydroxychloroquine.  And has approved its use prophylactically: “The…

Excerpted from an article in the December 29 Charleston, W.V. Daily Mail: …. The senator said it was shameful that neither the Department of Defense nor the Department of Veterans Affairs acknowledge Gulf War syndrome as a real illness. “We were stonewalled by the DOD in hearing after hearing after hearing,” Rockefeller said of several…

Here’s the Report, written by the Transfusion Transmitted Disease Committee of the American Association of Blood Banks. Notable quotes: Physicochemical properties: Stable at room temperature and can resist desiccation (drying); inactivated at 60°C [140 F] for 30 minutes [However, the 1984 Mitchell and McCormick paper that studied virus inactivation found that the time to inactivation…