Jeffry John Aufderheide is the father of a child injured as a result of vaccination. As editor of the website www.vactruth.com he promotes well-educated pediatricians, informed consent, and full disclosure and accountability of adverse reactions to vaccines.
Lisa Schnirring CIDRAP 06/02/2010 The risk for the paralytic condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) in people who received pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine was about the same as the risk among those who receive seasonal flu shots, according to preliminary findings released today by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). GBS is a […]
Posted on Neil Miller’s Think Twice Facebook Page. Dear Thinktwice (http://thinktwice.com/), Reading through some of the posts on the site, many parents (such as myself) are questioning their intuition — that gut feeling that “something is wrong” as their child seems different now since the shot, or that their baby is behaving differently (crying, sleeping, […]
Letitia Stein St. Petersburg Times 06/01/2010 On their next visit to the pediatrician, parents of adolescent boys may be asked if they want their sons to get an expensive vaccine they’ve never before considered — the HPV shot. Recently approved for boys, the three-dose immunization has been given to girls to prevent cervical cancer, often […]
Kent Atkinson NZPA 06/02/2010 Concerns educated parents in New Zealand were developing a form of “white flight” over immunisation of children against disease were aired at a Parliamentary select committee today. “There is growing evidence that children of educated parents are…becoming a significant ‘hard to reach’ population,” the Prime Minister’s chief science adviser, Sir Peter […]
Christina England American Chronicle 05/30/2010 Big Pharma’s only interest in society today is profit. Healthy people are of no use to them whatsoever, after all a healthy person does not need a cure. So bearing this in mind a few adverse reactions here and there do not worry the likes of Glaxo Smith Kline, Merck […]
John Gibb Otago Daily Times 05/05/2010 A powerful new vaccine therapy for colorectal cancer is likely to emerge from “highly promising” University of Otago research, which is moving closer to human clinical trials. This smart form of therapy uses harmless viral shells derived from rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus to deliver immunising tumour proteins. The same […]
Todd Neale MedPage Today 05/30/2010 Of the two vaccines used in the U.K. to protect against pandemic H1N1 influenza, the adjuvanted split-virus vaccine offered better protection for children than the non-adjuvanted whole-virus vaccine, but caused more side effects, a phase II study showed. After two doses, there were higher seroconversion rates with the adjuvanted vaccine […]
Donny Kwok Reuters 05/31/2010 Pfizer Inc, the world’s biggest drugmaker, is selling its swine vaccine business in China to Harbin Pharmaceutical Group for $50 million, a source with direct knowledge of the deal said on Monday. A spokeswoman from Pfizer’s Singapore office confirmed the divestment of its China swine vaccine business to Harbin Pharmaceutical but […]
Judith Tan The Straits Times 05/30/2010 TWO vaccines available here can protect women against a virus which causes cervical cancer, a disease which kills one woman here every five days. Yet, only three in 100 women have gone for it. One major obstacle: ignorance. Few women here know that the human papilloma virus (HPV) can […]
UKPA 05/18/2010 Babies have a “gap” in their immunity against measles which makes them susceptible to picking up the virus, researchers have said. Youngsters usually receive their measles jab when they are 13 months old, as part of the triple measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine. But research has shown they are susceptible to the […]
Bruce Pannier rferl.org 05/29/2010 The reemergence of an old disease in Tajikistan has led to an outbreak of a “polio war” between Moscow and Dushanbe. The dispute erupted after news emerged in April that the viral disease, which primarily spreads in areas with poor sanitation and can cause paralysis within hours of contraction, had returned […]
China Daily/Asia News Network 05/27/2010 A Chinese biological company has issued a recall of a batch of its human rabies vaccine over concerns for consumer safety, the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) announced. The vaccine, which was made and released by the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products in Central China’s Hubei province under batch […]
Chicago Tribune 05/29/2010 Several hundred dogs and cats in southeastern Wisconsin may need to be revaccinated after being given expired rabies vaccines. Countryside Humane Society in Racine says hundreds of expired vaccines were administered from Dec. 10 to last week. Countryside president Marilyn Benson says the agency learned of the expired vaccines Wednesday. She tells […]
The Hindu 05/27/2010 A potent new vaccine that could reverse or even cure malignant melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer, is on the anvil. Skin cancer is now the most common cancer in the 15-34 age bracket and is linked to exposure to the sun on beach holidays and the use of tanning booths. […]
Rong-Gong Lin II Los Angeles Times 05/27/2010 California health authorities say that cases of whooping cough reported to the state have more than doubled so far this year — 346 cases from Jan. 1 to April 30, up from 129 cases during the same period last year. Four newborns have died from the disease — […]
