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 — […]
Cathy O’Leary The West Australian 05/28/2010 Australian health authorities are still offering no explanation for a spike in bad reactions in young children having the flu vaccine, more than a month after they were forced to suspend the program. But GPs said it has led to a drop in the number of adults and older […]
The International News 05/30/2010 Karachi: The first formal meeting of Board of Trustees (BoT) of recently established “Trust for Vaccines & Immunizationî (TVI) was held in a local hotel in Karachi. The meeting was attended by prominent Pediatricians and Philanthropists of the country. Dr Abdul Ghaffar Billoo, Mr. Naseem Iqbal, Dr. Ejaz Vohra and Dr. […]
Mike Adams NaturalNews.com 05/28/2010 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is gaining a reputation for funding technologies designed to roll out mass sterilization and vaccination programs around the world. One of the programs recently funded by the foundation is a sterilization program that would use sharp blasts of ultrasound directed against a man’s scrotum to […]
Richard Gale Opednews.com 05/26/2010 Do you find something seriously wrong with this scenario? Reports of faulty gas pedals, obstructive floor carpets, and failing breaks in Toyota and Lexus vehicles generated uproar across major media networks. For the 4-year period starting in 2006, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) had reported 5 deaths, 17 injuries […]
The Times of India 05/26/2010 KANPUR: Three members of Pulse Polio party were severely thrashed in Rawatpur area under the Kalyanpur police station limits during an immunisation drive here on Wednesday. According to reports, the incident took place when one Pappu Siddiqui and Munna Siddiqui, both residents of Rawatpur severely thrashed three health workers-Rohit Malhotra, […]
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Lisa Schnirring CIDRAP News 05/26/2010 Legal issues that came into play during the H1N1 flu pandemic provided a useful look at how laws can help ease the availability of the vaccine, but in some instances can work against immunization efforts, according to a legal expert who has analyzed events that unfolded over the past year. […]
