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National Review Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
T he Heritage Foundation recently convened a meeting of experts to discuss “Weapons of Mass Destruction and America’s Communities,” the various ways our terrorist enemies might attack us and our allies in the future, and what might be done to stop them. You can imagine what a merry gathering this was. The most obvious concern: the spread of nuclear weapons. Within the group, there...
Debunking Christianity (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
By Joe E. Holman Smith The year was 1928. The place was Arkansas. Charles Lee Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism was arrested “on charges of blasphemy.” His crime? Passing out atheist tracts in a local town. After spending one night in jail, Smith was released with one charge dismissed while the other was never set for trial. Just like the famous...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Last week during the 'Vaccines for Biothreats and Emerging and Neglected Diseases Symposium' in Galveston TX, USA, the Elsevier journal Vaccine released a supplement dedicated to vaccines for biodefense. This publication provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview on vaccines that have been developed against a diverse group of human and veterinary pathogens, including Bacillus anthracis, smallpox,...
Science Friday (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
In Smallpox: The Death of a Disease , Dr. D.A. Henderson recounts the history of the deadly virus, from the development of the first vaccine in the late 18th century to his involvement in the successful global eradication campaign in the 1960s and 70s.
One Old Vet (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Marine Disabled by Vaccine Battles VA for Benefits Lance Cpl. Josef Lopez still suffers from injuries he began experiencing in Iraq three years ago — injuries caused not by bombs or guns but by a military-administered smallpox vaccine he got before he left the United States. The shot, which the military strongly encourages troops to get, triggered [...]
The Blue Pelican (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjkwOTFhN2ZlZTU3MGFiMzY1M2Q4YWY5MzllN2Q2MTg=&w=MQ== The newly released CDC estimate of infections and deaths in the U.S. indicates that seasonal flu is anywhere from three to twelve times deadlier than swine flu. Other data, including data from New York City , also indicate that swine flu is far milder. Yet swine flu spreads more easily, essentially outcompeting...
Eurekalert (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Last week during the Vaccines for Biothreats and Emerging and Neglected Diseases Symposium in Galveston Texas, the Elsevier journal Vaccine released a supplement dedicated to vaccines for biodefense. This publication provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview on vaccines that have been developed against a diverse group of human and veterinary pathogens, including Bacillus anthracis, smallpox...
thepharmaletter.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The US government-owned Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has awarded a new contract to Denmark-based Bavarian Nordic for the development of a freeze-dried version of its Imvamune smallpox vaccine with a total prospective value of $40 million.
U.S. Politics and the World (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Jayman931 posted a reply: I haven't read it all...but I am going to...alot of interesting things... Alot of talk about the saftey of Adjuvants....Which according to everyone here....Mercury and Squalene are safe....so why are they worried? Why do they also bring up GB syndrom (guilliane barrett ) as a side affect? The data they are keeping Control group....citizens that get the non-additive vaccines...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
As a GP in Bradford he helped to give the entire population smallpox vaccinations in just five days My father, Dr Jack Roberts, who has died aged 89, would have been bemused by all the fuss being created over the swine flu vaccination. In January 1962, he was GP to the staff and nurses of the Bradford children's hospital when a cook at the hospital showed signs of smallpox, which he recognised from...
Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
# 4011 From the Washington Post today, an outlook & Opinion column by Alan Sipress , WaPo’s economics editor and the author of the book "The Fatal Strain: On the Trail of Avian Flu and the Coming Pandemic." Sipress has spent years on the trail of avian flu, traveling across much of Asia as he filed reports. He gives us some deep background into the concerns held by many scientists...
Raw Dawg Buffalo (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
some things over past week that caught my eye: 1] New types of influenza found in Ukraine 2] Virginia Family Claims H1N1 Vaccine Sickened Son 3] Tenn. trooper suspended over white pride e-mail 4] Two die in China after H1N1 flu vaccine 5] How the US Funds the Taliban 6] Former US envoy Galbraith could earn $100m from Iraqi oil field 7] Republicans charged in $10 million scandal 8] KBR burned smallpox...
An American Lion (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
John Trumbull “Declaration of Independence” 1826 Oh, to be mediocre. I have never been mediocre. I was cursed to be brilliant, cursed to be quick with an answer, handsome to a fault and modestly aware of my own abilities. I have led a life of extraordinary care, and it brings me to today, feeling powerful and mighty, but sad that one of our founding father’s—a one Mr. Thomas...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Chimerix, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company advancing orally-available antiviral therapeutics to address life-threatening diseases, announced today that Kenneth I. Moch, Chief Operating Officer, will present a corporate overview at two upcoming investor conferences. Mr. Moch will discuss the company's technology assets and pipeline, including CMX001,...
Key West Diary (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Edward Jenner crashed on his future wife one day when his aircraft ran out of lift and forced him to land in her father's front yard. In 1788 flying was a novelty and hot air balloons were a miracle. The fearsome killer at the time however, was not flying wrecks but smallpox. One in three of those who contracted the disease died and many, many people lived their lives scarred and pitted by the pustules...
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sonupt5@gmail.com | 07/04/2009
Edward Jenner and vaccination against smallpox “Edward Jenner is well known around the world for his innovative contribution to immunization and the ultimate eradication of smallpox. Jenner's work is widely regarded as the foundation of immunology—despite the fact that he was neither the first to suggest that infection with cowpox conferred specific immunity to smallpox nor the first to attempt cowpox
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