The WyBlog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
If it wasn't for our government engaging in junk science precipitated by anti-vaccine fear-mongering activist groups we'd have plenty of swine flu vaccine. The shortage of swine-flu vaccine results not from drug-company greed or outsize demand but almost entirely from the government's decision to pander to unfounded and unscientific fear. As The Wall Street Journal reported last week, the US government...
The Muqata (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Special Guest Topic from Mrs. Jameela @ The Muqata Conventional Wisdom states to give babies Tylenol/acetaminophen after vaccinations to reduce side effects and lower a resulting fever. Yet a new study reported states that giving Tylenol to reduce the side effects after a vaccination lowers the effectiveness of the vaccination itself. "Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Children who get Tylenol and other...
Live from Waterloo (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
I won’t say anything new if I tell you that there’s a lot of concern about the H1N1 and its possibilities of turning into a pandemic here in Canada. H1N1 vaccines have finally arrived, and the first clinics are being held right now, with elderly people, children and healthcare workers among the first groups to receive it. Since your health is normally one of those few things that cannot...
Mystical Paths (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
by Reb Akiva at Mystical Paths A little technical due to necessary background. I get to the point in the bottom third. We are commanded to believe in Hashem and have faith, yet also required to actively protect our health (as well as avoid taking risks with our lives). While in the last 15 years a few drugs have been developed that do treat viruses, most viral infections cannot be treated. The only...
decorabilia (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Regarding the November / December LD immunization resolution , a reader writes , I'm having some trouble thinking of argumentation lines for the affirmative, insofar as a minority refusing a vaccine shouldn't affect the majority, because the majority has been vaccinated and is (of course, to a limited extent) immune. This is frustrating every brainstorm I have on affirmative argumentation lines. Some...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
The Equatorial Guinean Health and Welfare ministry has launched a vaccination campaign against diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, measles and poliomyelitis. The three-day operation targets children aged 0 to 5 years and pregnant women. It aims to achieve over 80% immunization coverage in order to secure and reduce maternal and infant mortality. The vaccination campaign is [...]
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Note: In 1901, the first Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was awarded to Emil von Behring for "his work on serum therapy against diphtheria". Diphtheria is a rare disease now because diphtheria vaccination is available to almost every child born today. But over a century ago, thousands of children died of diphtheria. Von Behring and his associates were responsible for the cease of...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
According to her death certificate, my mother’s half-sister Bonnie died of diphtheria — “the deadly scourge of childhood” — at five years old, in a town not too far from Dallas. An aggressive vaccination campaign began in the region around the same time, but perhaps it took a while for word to reach the provinces, [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
We now know that the cervical cancer jab did not directly cause the death of the schoolgirl Natalie Morton. But parents will still worry Natalie Morton, the 14-year-old from Coventry who died in hospital after having the cervical cancer vaccination, was not killed by the jab. Public health doctors breathed again when the preliminary result of her postmortem was released on Tuesday night. She had a...
FRESH MEAT (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
Welcome to the Vaccine Education Center : Vaccine Education Center - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ... Our resources explain how vaccines work, how they are made, who recommends vaccines, when they should be given, if they are still necessary, and, most importantly, if they are safe. Vaccines changed medicine Vaccines have literally transformed the landscape of medicine over the course of the...
Rightthinker (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
The History of Vaccinations-Part 1 -from their inception to 1979 The history of vaccinations is quite interesting. I've included a basic published CDC time-line for the development of vaccines and some of the other vaccine related issues, such as the creation of The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act and The Vaccine Adverse Reporting System. Following that time-line, is a much more exhaustive time-line....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Extra money is intended to fund vaccines for children in developing countries and improve healthcare systems Gordon Brown will this week announce an extra $1bn to pay for more vaccines and immunisation for children in the developing world and boost healthcare systems. The money – nearly half of which will come from the UK – will be channelled through the Global Alliance for Vaccines and...
Terrierman's Daily Dose (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
The idea of vaccinations to prevent disease dates back to 1796. In that year Edward Jenner, a British physician, noted that dairymaids who had caught cowpox (a minor disease), could not catch smallpox (an often fatal disease in humans). Jenner took infected matter from the hand of Sarah Nelmes , a local dairymaid who had become infected with cowpox, and inserted this ooze into the cut arm of James...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
El Dorado County public health officials have extended the registration deadline for two school-based immunization programs to Oct. 1. Vaccines will be administered during October and November through the IZ Xtreme and Kung Flu Fighters programs. County Health Services Department nurses will give the immunizations to students and return to the school campus for any follow-up vaccines. Parent permission...
Astroblog (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Just to give you a feeling for the degree of misinformation presented on the Australian Vaccine Networks website, consider this entry on the Diphtheria Tetanus Pertussis Vaccine: The pertussis or whooping cough vaccine has been cited as the cause of a great deal of suffering and death since the report by Madsen et al in 1933. Despite the more than 70 years ofcontroversy since that time, this vaccine...
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