CIDRAP By Robert Roos News Editor Full Article Here. Editor’s note: CIDRAP’s Promising Practices: Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Tools (www.CIDRAPpractices.org) online database showcases peer-reviewed practices, including useful tools to help others with their planning. This article is one of a series exploring the development of these practices. We hope that describing the process and context of […]
AP Interview: Kids may get swine flu shots first http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hbs-FO8lE3ZraaOV7CtTQuSuaVigD98S0U402 By LAURAN NEERGAARD WASHINGTON (AP) — Schoolchildren could be first in line for swine flu vaccine this fall — and schools are being put on notice that they might even be turned into shot clinics. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday she […]
CDC to mix avian, human flu viruses in pandemic study http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/panflu/news/jan1404hybrids.html Robert Roos News Editor Jan 14, 2004 (CIDRAP News) — One of the worst fears of infectious disease experts is that the H5N1 avian influenza virus now circulating in parts of Asia will combine with a human-adapted flu virus to create a deadly new […]
WHO: Swine flu pandemic has begun, 1st in 41 years http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090611/ap_on_he_me/un_un_swine_flu By MARIA CHENG and FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press Writers Maria Cheng And Frank Jordans, Associated Press Writers — 22 mins ago GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic Thursday — the first global flu epidemic in 41 years — as […]
Surviving a Cytokine Storm, Brought to You Courtesy of the New World Order http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2698 Trillions for Tribute, But Not One Cent for Defense The US declared, when faced with the demands of the Barbary Pirates who controlled the shipping routes of the Mediterranean around North Africa, Representative Robert Goodloe Harper, declared “Millions for defense, but […]
One in seven scientists say colleagues fake data June 4, 2009 Hannah Devlin http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6425036.ece Faking scientific data and failing to report commercial conflicts of interest are far more prevalent than previously thought, a study suggests. One in seven scientists says that they are aware of colleagues having seriously breached acceptable conduct by inventing results. And […]
USDA TO MAKE INFLUENZA A H1N1 ISOLATE AVAILABLE TO LICENSED VETERINARY BIOLOGICS MANUFACTURERS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SWINE INFLUENZA VACCINE *** Authors Note: Past outbreaks have occurred next to such labs. Is Fort Collins going to have a massive outbreak of the Swine Flu? They do not mention Fort Collins specifically in the article, however, Fort […]
$46.7M in Flu Vaccine Contracts Awarded http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/467M-in-Flu-Vaccine-Contracts-Awarded-05453/ 27-May-2009 14:00 EDT The Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, PA has awarded 2 contracts, worth a total of $46.7 million, to supply influenza vaccine to the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. One contract went to MedImmune Vaccines Inc. of Gaithersburg, MD, which received a […]
‘Underlying Conditions’ May Add to Flu Worries http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/health/policy/28flu.html?_r=1&ref=health By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS Published: May 27, 2009 In announcing this week that swine flu had been implicated in the deaths of two more New Yorkers, the city’s health commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, added a by-now familiar caveat: Both of them, he said, had “underlying conditions.†He […]
Bioniche Represented at House of Commons Sub-Committee on Food Safety http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-28-2009/0005033710&EDATE= Company seeking endorsement of programs to reduce the risk of E. coli O157 contamination of food and water BELLEVILLE, ON, May 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it made representation at the […]
School-based vaccine clinics planned http://www.nujournal.com/page/content.detail/id/507177.html?nav=5009 POSTED: May 27, 2009 By Fritz Busch Journal Staff Writer NEW ULM – Brown County Public Health Director Karen Moritz gave several doses of good news to Brown County commissioners Tuesday. Proposed federal funding has been earmarked for more vaccine for children, according to Moritz. “We are working with the […]
GPs urged to find children without measles jabs http://www.healthcarerepublic.com/news/NURSE/908470/GPs-urged-find-children-without-measles-jabs/ 27-May-09 GPs are being urged to search their practice lists for any children who have not been vaccinated against measles, in an attempt to boost poor MMR uptake levels. Speaking at the Primary Care 2009 conference in Birmingham last week, Dr Rosemary McCann, consultant in communicable […]
Managing and Reducing Uncertainty in an Emerging Influenza Pandemic http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp0904380 Published at www.nejm.org May 27, 2009 (10.1056/NEJMp0904380) Marc Lipsitch, D.Phil., Steven Riley, D.Phil., Simon Cauchemez, Ph.D., Azra C. Ghani, Ph.D., and Neil M. Ferguson, D.Phil. The early phases of an epidemic present decision makers with predictable challenges1 that have been evident as the current novel […]
New study warns over pandemic flu vaccine 6-month time lag http://health.taragana.net/articles/new-study-warns-over-pandemic-flu-vaccine-6-month-time-lag/ April 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON – It will take at least six months to come up with an effective vaccine in the event of a pandemic flu outbreak, scientists have warned. Dr Iain Stephenson, Consultant in Infectious Diseases at the Leicester Royal Infirmary and a […]
Mystery of potentially fatal reaction to smallpox vaccine unraveled http://health.taragana.net/articles/mystery-of-potentially-fatal-reaction-to-smallpox-vaccine-unraveled/ May 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON – A husband-wife scientific team from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology have identified the cellular defect that makes eczema sufferers more prone to eczema vaccinatum, a severe and potentially fatal reaction to the smallpox vaccine. Doctors Toshiaki and […]
