California to require booster shots for health care workers

Opinion 9.133 Routine Universal Immunization of Physicians (from the AMA Code of Ethics) is very clearly against universal immunization mandates.  Here is the language: As professionals committed to promoting the welfare of individual patients and the health of the public and to safeguarding their own and their colleagues’ well-being, physicians have an ethical responsibility to take…

UPDATE:  On Feb 8, WHO acknowledged that at least 12 countries were reporting cases of narcolepsy associated with swine flu vaccinations. From the Helsinki Times, what we already knew and blogged on in 2009 here, here, here, and here finally becomes public knowledge after a vaccine-related, serious illness is identified.  Governments that purchased pandemic swine…

Reuters’ Sharon Begley has to be one of the very best science journalists in the US.  She always gets to the meat of the matter.  Here she gives us the highlights of what scientists said remains unknown about Ebola transmission, at an IOM meeting November 3.  The full article is below, and it confirms what…

According to the Guardian, “Several studies suggest up to 60% of GPs would oppose being immunised because they are concerned the safety trials will be rushed.. The biggest reason given by those who said they would not have it was concern that the safety trials would not be adequate: 71.3% said they were “concerned that…

This was my presentation to the University of California Institute on Global Conflicts and Cooperation seminar on the anthrax letters, Nov. 29, 2010 in Washington, D.C.  DVDs with the full video recording of the anthrax seminar can be purchased at cost ($12) from www.scientiapress.com. THE FBI’S ANTHRAX LETTERS INVESTIGATION:  POINTS TO CONSIDER MERYL NASS, MD…

I have reproduced the second half of an article in today’s Guardian, which is clearly a propaganda piece of the type I warned about yesterday, blaming humans for pandemics and suggesting that the way forward is with One Health, more financing for public health, more focus on climate change, and reducing intensive agriculture and logging. …