Thursday, December 31, 2009

WHO: Acute respiratory (including swine flu) disease prevalence around the world

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The map I previously posted disappeared off this website. However, WHO updates the map weekly. To see the current week's map (and you ma...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

African Drum Anthrax: 80 advised to take anti-anthrax medicine/ Union-Leader

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According to Dan Tuohy at the Manchester, New Hampshire Union-Leader , The state is encouraging more than 80 people to take antibiotics and ...

Flu Inc.: How vaccines became big business/ Globe and Mail

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Paul Waldie and Grant Robertson of the Globe and Mail , Canada have published a detailed investigative piece on how vaccines have been trans...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

WHO Director Chan begins instilling fear of bird flu/ BBC

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From the BBC : Dr Margaret Chan...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Initial data on swine flu adverse event reporting/ MMWR

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Per CDC's MMWR , as of November 24, VAERS data indicated 82 adverse event reports per 1 million H1N1 vaccine doses distributed, compared...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

Is bird flu losing virulence?/ CIDRAP

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Egypt's health ministry has confirmed an H5N1 avian influenza infection in a 21-year-old woman, the country's third case since late ...

Novartis' MF59 swine flu vaccines "Prequalified" by WHO/Novartis press release

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December 21, 2009 07:15 CET/ Novartis press release: Basel, Switzerland All three Novartis A(H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccines prequalified ( r...
Saturday, December 26, 2009

Vaccine industry is being revived: New technology, greater funding and higher profits are a shot in the arm for advances/ LA Times

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I will be talking more about how the H1N1 pandemic was exploited to greatly expand the use of vaccines, in the near future. This January 28,...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Building Markets, Avoiding Liability: a 2004 Example of Pandemic-Mongering/ Science

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Here is a typical piece of industry hype on the dangers of a future pandemic, the need to build a bigger industrial base for vaccine product...

In Holland, the Public Face of Flu Takes a Hit/ Science

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From Martin Enserink in the Oct. 16 Science , excerpts regarding claims of financial conflict of interest and fear-mongering on the part of ...

Officials recall more swine flu vaccine/ SF Chronicle

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Millions more doses of swine flu vaccine were recalled this week after routine tests found they weren't strong enough to meet minimum pu...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

How Merck Created a New Disease (Osteopenia) to Sell its New Drug, FOSAMAX/ NPR

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MUST_READ from NPR (thanks to Marc Crispin Miller) ... armed with the firm conviction that he was about to do good in the world, and coinci...
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Flu vaccines for every American, every year/ CIDRAP

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From 3/2008 CIDRAP : Until now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is advised by the ACIP, recommended flu vaccina...

Merck Hires Ex-CDC Chief Gerberding To Run Vaccines Unit/ NPR

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verbatim from National Public Radio : ... [Gerberding] came to the CDC in 1998, and was credited with smoothly handling the media after the...

Pushing vaccines, hiding adverse effects: Flu pandemic may change US flu approach forever/ Reuters

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photo of Julie Gerberding, Reuters From Reuters' Maggie Fox , we learn that the swine flu "pandemic" has opened aven...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

More vaccine but fewer takers, H1N1 surveys indicate/ WaPo

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According to David Brown , 111 million doses of swine flu vaccine have been released to the cities and states by now. CDC estimated that in...

Doctor to sue DOH over vaccinated son’s death/Taipei Times

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Does Taiwan allow law suits against the government for possible swine flu-related deaths? US law does not. Nor can you sue the manufacturer....

Spain and Germany want to return excess swine flu vaccine/ Reuters

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According to Reuters via the One Click Group , alternatively these countries could resell vaccine to other countries if manufacturers will ...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO INVESTIGATE WHO IN JANUARY 2010

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Thanks to website " The Flu Case " we have a story in English derived from reports in two German newspapers, Zeit and Tages Spiege...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Panflu Vaccine: Europeans Can't Be Bothered/ National Public Radio

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from NPR : ... In the U.K., under two percent of the population has stepped up, and only 17 percent of those at special risk of flu complica...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Health bosses accused of flu-mongering

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From Theresa Boyle at Healthzone, Canada : Public health officials are misleading Canadians by continuing to characterize the H1N1 virus as ...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Is swine flu vaccine safe in pregnancy?/ FDA

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According to FDA , "while no safety concerns have been identified to date, a project will be initiated this fall to focus on the safety...

Are Tamiflu and Relenza safe to use in pregnancy? / FDA

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FDA's website provides the following somewhat contradictory information on swine flu drugs in pregnancy: Yes, they are approved, and C...

Kids' Swine Flu Shots Recalled; Not Strong Enough

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Excerpts from the AP's Mike Stobbe: The recall is for about 800,000 pre-filled syringes intended for young children, ages 6 months to ...
Monday, December 14, 2009

Vaccine Makers Struggle to Speed Output: Cell-Culture Technology Hastens the Process, but Slow-Growing Virus Remains a Problem

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From the Nov. 25 WSJ : Cell culturing vaccines is not a well-developed technology, and may not shave much time off vaccine production. Nor ...

Seasonal influenza vaccination rates similar to last year

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From Infectious Disease News . It may be that media-induced fears and intellectual arguments have 'maxed out' the number of America...

This swine flu wave is OVER in the US!

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per CDC : Dropping from a peak of over 50% positive swine flu tests, we had only 2% positive the week of Dec 1,2009. Approximately 98% of t...

Need a Swine Flu Shot? Try Germany/ WSJ blogs

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From Jacob Goldstein at the WSJ blogs: Swine-flu shots are going begging in Germany, and the government is selling some of its vaccine on t...

New vaccine technologies on horizon but face roadblocks/ CIDRAP

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from the UMinn's CIDRAP: "... It will be several more years before we are able to wean ourselves away from egg-based vaccine, but ...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

China worries swine flu vaccine campaign faltering

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BEIJING ( Reuters) - "China's vaccination campaign against the H1N1 flu strain is not proceeding as fast as it should be partly be...
Friday, December 11, 2009

Triage: Flu Outbreak Saps Public Health Resources/ WSJ

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The profligate use of public health resources has not been confined to the billions spent on Tamiflu and swine flu vaccines. The Wall Stree...
Thursday, December 10, 2009

Six doctors demand reopening of inquest into death of David Kelly

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David Kelly was the British scientist and WMD expert (I met him once at an anthrax meeting in 1998) who leaked information to the BBC that T...

Swine flu "considerably less lethal" than feared/ BBC

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Sir Liam Donaldson, the UK's chief medical officer, reports the swine flu pandemic is "considerably less lethal" than feared, ...
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Marine Disabled by Vaccine Battles VA for Benefits/ FoxNews

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From FOX : a story about a young marine who nearly died after receiving smallpox vaccine. But when deploying soldiers get so many vaccines ...

Novartis Is Celebrating. Should We?/ Huffington Post

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From Dr. Sherri Tenpenny in the Dec. 8, 2009 Huffington Post : On November 24, 2009, Novartis officially opened its first, large-scale vacci...

Novartis moves forward with USG-sponsored cell-based vaccine plant/ WP

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The vaccine/bioterrorism industry is expert at making silk purses out of sows' ears. Novartis, the company that failed to get its 50% sh...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Swine flu vaccine "as safe as seasonal flu vaccine"/NYT

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The NY Times reports that after 2 months of wide use, there are no worrying patterns of adverse reactions found for swine flu vaccine, acco...

Tamiflu: Benefitting from being in the right place at the right time/ BMJ

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"We had to do something about swine flu!" And so the makers of Tamiflu (oseltamvir) are several billion dollars richer. As the BM...

BARDA cancels anthrax vaccine RFP/ DHHS

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According to HHS , BARDA "determined that none of the vaccine developers submitting proposals could meet the Project BioShield statutor...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Offline (mostly) until December 8--see you then!

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Meantime, today we have had the Irish and US CDC reporting the epidemic has passed its peak, while federal health officials " fear tha...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Swine Flu 'Emergency Use Authorizations' fail to meet the legal standard

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The swine flu pandemic triggered a variety of government responses throughout the world. In the United States, plans to deal with the disea...

Academic Researchers’ Conflicts of Interest Go Unreported/ NY Times

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Excerpts from another excellent Gardiner Harris piece: In a report expected to be made public on Thursday, Daniel R. Levinson, the inspect...

Medical Faculty 'Ghostwriting' Equals Plagiarism: Senator Grassley/ NY Times

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Sen. Charles Grassley has been pursuing various forms of medical malfeasance for years. On November 17 he honed in on the practice of '...