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The anthrax vaccine boondoggle/ Forbes
Thanks to author Steven Salzberg, who worked sequencing anthrax for the FBI letters investigation, writing in Forbes: The anthrax vaccine is a truly bad idea. The U.S. has wasted billions of dollars on it, and it just seems to go from bad to worse. Now a government panel has recommended that we test the vaccine on…
Bradley Manning revealed information of major international import/ Bill Blum
Bradley Manning spent nearly a year in solitary, being tortured with ploys like forced nakedness (perfected in Iraq as a torture method?). He is unlikely to ever be free. Julian Assange got the honeypot treatment and is likely to spend much of his remaining life incarcerated. Yet we were told those leaked cables had…
Masks: Data and Opinions in the US and Europe
There is a lot of published evidence that surgical masks, which are equivalent to dust masks, and are basically the same as the cloth masks we are now wearing, provide little or no protection to the wearer against respiratory viruses.Current dogma is that they are supposed to protect others from your exhaled viruses and secretions….
An important proposal that ameliorates our lack of protective equipment and spares both patients and healthcare workers
There is a huge disconnect between the personal protective equipment (PPE) healthcare workers (HCWs) should be wearing to protect themselves from coronavirus, and what actually exists right now for them to use. The White House has told the governors to find their own supplies. The equipment market is in chaos. CDC is now telling HCWs to make their own…
F.D.A. Restricts Antibiotics’ Use for Livestock
For 60 years, US factory farms have included broad-spectrum antibiotics in the feed for livestock. It is said to promote growth. It also promotes antibiotic resistance. Fully 80% (30 million pounds) of the antibiotics used in the US are fed to animals who provide our meat and dairy products. In 1977, FDA announced it planned…
$214 M CDC Lab Can’t Contain its Germs / CNN and USAToday
One CDC high-containment lab (BSL-3, the level of containment required to study anthrax) fails to contain air efflux. And it was discovered because visitors touring the facility saw a puff of air exit through a slot in a door window. How long had this been going on? USAToday points out that the BSL-3 lab doors…