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By VT / May 15, 2009

A UT System researcher’s ties to drug firms is questioned 12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, May 9, 2009 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-drugresearch_09tex.ART.State.Edition1.4c7383e.html By EMILY RAMSHAW / The Dallas Morning News eramshaw@dallasnews.com AUSTIN — An influential U.S. senator has told a federal investigator that a University of Texas System researcher may not have properly disclosed her financial relationship with […]

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By VT / May 15, 2009

Baxter: Product contained live bird flu virus http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2009/02/27/8560781.html By Helen Branswell, THE CANADIAN PRESS Last Updated: 27th February 2009, 3:26pm The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1 avian flu viruses. And an official of the World Health Organization’s European operation […]

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By VT / May 15, 2009

Swine Flu May Be Human Error; WHO Investigates Claim (Update1) http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afrdATVXPEAk&refer=worldwide# By Jason Gale and Simeon Bennett May 13 (Bloomberg) — The World Health Organization is investigating a claim by an Australian researcher that the swine flu virus circling the globe may have been created as a result of human error. Adrian Gibbs, 75, who […]

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By Dawn / May 15, 2009

In 1954, national testing began on one million children, ages six to nine, who became known as the Polio Pioneers: half received the vaccine, and half received a placebo. One-third of the children, who lived in areas where vaccine was not available, were observed to evaluate the background level of polio in this age group. […]

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By VT / May 14, 2009

Benjamin Jetsy’s grave stone indicated that he utilized cow pox material to inoculate his wife and 2 sons in 1774, 22 years before Jenner’s experiments in 1796. Benjamin Jesty was a successful farmer, who lived at Yetminster and then moved to Downshay. He dealt in cattle and maintained a herd. In the year 1774, small […]

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By VT / May 14, 2009

In 1796 Edward Jenner carried out his now famous experiment on eight-year-old James Phipps. Jenner inserted pus taken from a cowpox pustule and inserted it into an incision on the boy’s arm. He was testing his theory, drawn from the folklore of the countryside, that milkmaids who suffered the mild disease of cowpox never contracted […]

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By VT / May 14, 2009

1. Edward Jenner’s biography. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/302579/Edward-Jenner 2. Louis Pasteur’s biography. http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=9039 3. Gerald L. Geison’s biography. http://wapedia.mobi/en/Gerald_L._Geison 4. Dr. Paul Offit on Addressing Parents’ Concerns: Do Multiple Vaccines Overwhelm or Weaken the Infant’s Immune System? He then uses some physiological immune facts to come to the outrageous conclusion that an infant would have the theoretical capacity […]