Shari Roan LA Times 07/02/2010 Flu viruses mutate rapidly, meaning that vaccines against the flu have to be continually updated to target the latest strains. Moreover, antiviral medications to combat flu sometimes become ineffective because of viral mutations. Thus, finding a so-called universal flu vaccine that could be used against a wide range of viruses […]

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Mike Swain Mirror.co.uk 07/02/2010 The swine flu scare cost £1.2billion – as a vaccine firm cashed in. The taxpayer footed the bill which included 20 million unused vaccines. GlaxoSmithKline made £883million from sales of the drug last year but insisted the Government complete the deal even if the vaccines were no longer needed. An independent […]

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UPI.com 07/01/2010 A woman who had sex with a member of the U.S. military vaccinated against smallpox subsequently contracted a related virus, health officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released Thursday said despite the patient’s exposure history, sex with a person vaccinated against smallpox, and clinical presentation, […]

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Scotsman 07/02/2010 THERE were four major problems at the heart of what happened with the swine flu episode. First, the world was unnecessarily frightened witless by claims made by experts that it could killed between two and 7.5 million people, 65,000 in London. This caused panic among the public for what in the end was […]

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Norwegian experts received money from Merck and then advised their government on the HPV vaccine Gardasil, which at the time was only in it’s experimental stages.

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David Gutierrez NaturalNews.com 06/24/2010 A 16-year-old girl lost nearly all of her vision within 10 days of receiving the second course of her vaccine against the human papilloma virus (HPV), reports a case study in the Journal of Child Neurology. The HPV vaccine is designed to prevent infection by the strains of the virus that […]

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Erica Rex Scientific American 06/24/2010 The first discovery of a cancer gene marker—the BRAF oncogene for melanoma and colorectal malignancies—back in 2002 changed the way many researchers thought about cancer treatment. Rather than approach the disease based on what region of the body it stemmed from, scientists began to identify cancers in terms of their […]

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After Lisa Krizman of Loveland lost her daughter, Sierra, to meningitis in 2007, she started a foundation to bolster awareness of the disease and raise money for vaccination clinics. Now that Fort Collins Adult Hockey Association players Brian Wormus and Nick Smith have died of invasive meningococcal disease, Krizman is fast-tracking a meningitis vaccination clinic […]

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Excerpt from Polymicrobial Diseases Chapter 19 – Virus-induced Immunosuppression http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov “MV infection produces an immune system paradox. MV infection, while inducing lifelong immunity, also suppresses the immune system leading to an increase in susceptibility to other, secondary infections (24, 67, 91). In vitro research has shown that MV infection of cell cultures makes the cells […]

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SEO Press Releases 06/23/2010 Vaccine Adverse Reporting System (VAERS) May statistics on HPV vaccine injury and death now stands at 18,445 adverse reaction (increase of 1,000 in the last 6 weeks), 75 deaths, 3,771 not recovered, 4,905 unknown recovered, 610 disabled, 355 life threatening, 7,858 ER visits, 1,865 hospitalized. The numbers reflect only 1 to […]

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Ludwig Burger Reuters 06/23/2010 FRANKFURT, June 17 (Reuters) – Germany’s Merck KGaA (MRCG.DE) and its U.S. partner Oncothyreon (ONTY.O) have resumed testing their experimental cancer vaccine Stimuvax on lung-cancer patients, reviving hopes for a key pipeline drug. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifted the hold it had placed on a Phase III trial […]

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Xiong Tong xinhuanet.com 06/21/2010 Barry J. Marshall, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2005 and clinical professor with the University of Western Australia, said people might, in the future, be vaccinated by swallowing capsules instead of by using needles. He made his remarks at the World Expo’s third theme forum, which opened on Sunday in […]

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Rachel Ellis Daily Mail 06/22/2010 Parents have their children vaccinated in the belief it offers vital protection against serious infections. But now there are concerns that the meningitis C vaccine may not be effective during key times in their child’s life. New research has revealed that within seven years of receiving the jab, three quarters […]

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By Andrew Hough Telegraph.co.uk 06/22/2010 Swiss researchers claimed allergies that blight the lives of 10 million British sufferers could be largely eradicated with a single vaccine. An allergy conference in London heard the “one size fits all” injection that wards off asthma, eczema, hay fever and even peanut allergies could be on the shelves within […]

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Kate Kelland Reuters 06/20/2010 The Access to Medicines Index (AMI) — released this week for the second time since its launch in 2008 — is produced by a Dutch-based foundation and backed by 22 institutional investors and fund managers, who together manage $3.1 trillion in assets. It put Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline at the top of its […]

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