Press Release CONTACT: Wendy Zellner PHONE: (412) 586-9777 E-MAIL: [email protected] Battelle, IBM, Merck Join UPMC’s Effort to Produce Vaccines to Protect Public Health 21st Century Biodefense Offers Innovative Solution to President Obama’s Call for Improved Response to Bioterrorism and Infectious Diseases PITTSBURGH, March 11 – Building on its extensive efforts to establish a flexible vaccine development and production facility to strengthen the nation’s biosecurity, UPMC announced today that it has been joined by Battelle, IBM and Merck & Co. Inc. in this first-of-its-kind initiative. These [...]

. . . . . Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Brendan P. Lucey, MD, Walter A. Nelson-Rees, PhD, and Grover M. Hutchins, MDFrom the Department of Neurology, Michael O’Callaghan Federal Hospital, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (Dr Lucey); and the Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland (Dr Hutchins). Abstract Henrietta Lacks died in 1951 of an aggressive adenocarcinoma of the cervix. A tissue biopsy obtained for diagnostic evaluation yielded additional tissue for Dr George O. Gey’s tissue culture laboratory at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, Maryland). The [...]

. . . . Poliomyelitis in Hypogammaglobulinemics Author(s): H. V. Wyatt Source: The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 128, No. 6 (Dec., 1973), pp. 802-806 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30061657 (excerpt) “The incidence of natural poliomyelitis in hypogammaglobulinemics has been esti- mated to be similar to that in nonimmune normal children of the same age group exposed to virulent poliovirus. Poliomyelitis that afflicts hypogammaglobulinemics after the feeding of oral polio vaccine is characterized by an incubation period of longer than [...]

. . . . Christina England Vactruth.com 03/08/10 Throughout history there have been strong women debating big issues and changing history, amongst them are Joan of Arc, Emrneline Pankhurst and Amelia Earhart. On the 12th March 2010 in an extraordinary move, six strong, brave women of the world will come forward to present their research, documents and findings involving probably the most controversial vaccine of all times Gardasil to the FDA. What they have uncovered does not make easy reading. Calling themselves ‘Little Women with [...]

. . . *Special thanks goes to Eileen D. for bringing this to our attention. See bolded Excerpt such as: Therefore, pursuant to section 319F-3(b) of the Act, I have determined there is a credible risk that the spread of pandemic influenza A viruses and those with pandemic potential and resulting disease does or could constitute a public health emergency. …and extends through February 28, 2012. Section 319F-3(a)(4)(A) confers immunity to manufacturers and distributors of the Covered Countermeasure, regardless of the defined population. …and amended [...]