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December 4, 2003December 4, 2003*
Vaccination News Breaking News Archives - each day's breaking news from December 1, 2003 (check here for breaking news you might have missed and breaking news that didn't ever hit the "front page") More News - all the news most recently posted on this website All the News - a running tab of everything posted on this website since October 29, 2003 Top Stories Archives - daily breaking and other important news stories Daily News Archives - all the news posted on this website each day (from April 2001) Hot Topics - selected stories, by category Return to Vaccination News Home Page (for best results, right click to "open in new window") Subscribe to the Vaccination NewsLetter View past & current Scandals (columns by Sandy Mintz) Search This Site using keywords click here to download Adobe Reader click here for Picks of the Week click here for the old "Recommended List"
To receive daily "top stories" updates, send an email to sandym@touchngo.com with the words "subscribe top stories" in the subject line. For today's top stories, click here. Whooping cough on rise, parents warned - Asbury Park Press - "'But I'd say about 99.9 percent of school-age children have their shots,' Meddis said. 'Some of these kids who have been affected have been immunized four times or more in their lives, but not every vaccine is 100 percent effective, and sometimes the protection wanes over time.'" Immunity Challenge for Survivors - Sydney Morning Herald via www.immunizationinfo.org - "About 60 percent of international travelers to high disease risk areas, such as India, Africa, and the Middle East, travel without proper vaccination, with 43 percent choosing to ignore a doctor's advice and 17 percent not even thinking about the need for vaccination, according to a study by vaccine manufacturer Aventis Pasteur. The expense associated with vaccinations for hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and typhoid is nothing compared to the cost of treatment after contracting one of those diseases, and side effects associated with the vaccines are insignificant compared to the risk to a traveler's health, explains Travel Clinics Australia medical director Jonathan Cohen." N.M. Flu Cases Up, Vaccine Supplies Down - AP via www.intelihealth.com Wichitans seek flu shots as beds fill up - The Wichita Eagle via www.kansas.com Battling Flu: Disinfectants to Shots - Flu Shots Still the Best Weapon, Plus Hand-Washing - WebMD Health N.M. Flu Cases Up, Vaccine Supplies Down - December 04, 2003 - New Mexico Sees Jump in Number of Flu Cases, While Vaccine Supplies Dwindle - AP via ABC News Over 600,000 Children Immunized Against Measles Since August - IRIN via www.allafrica.com Possible SARS Vaccine Breakthrough - Genetically Altered Virus Triggers SARS Immune Response in Monkeys - WebMD Health Canadian scientists to test a SARS vaccine in humans within a year - AFP via The Australian
Iran: Leader Urges Public Participation in Vaccination Campaign -
BBC Worldwide Monitoring via
www.immunizationinfo.org The Recognition Factor - Part of brain that identifies faces also identifies other objects - Health Scout - "For autistic children who have problems recognizing faces, the study's findings may provide a scientific basis to help teach these children face identification, Curran adds." (March 14, 2003) Imaging children with ADHD - MRI technology reveals different in neuro-signaling - AMA via www.eurekalert.org 20 new hepatitis cases linked to Chi-Chi's - AP via Pocono Record Customs With FDA to Inspect Food - AP via www.intelihealth.com
Mexican
governor: inspectors found no hepatitis in Baja California - AP via The San
Diego Union-Tribune Hepatitis backlash hits mostly local, Mexican restaurants - AP via The Miami Herald Official: FDA Acted Hastily on Hepatitis - Mexico Food Official Says FDA Rushed to Judgment on Green Onions in Hepatitis Outbreak in Pa. - AP via ABC News More Fallout From Hepatitis Outbreak - AP via KYW-TV - "Mexico's top food-safety official said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wanted to hastily affix blame for a hepatitis A outbreak at a Pennsylvania restaurant and didn't properly trace produce from that restaurant." Customs Works With FDA To Inspect Food (subscription required) - Los Angeles Times Hopes that killer flu has reached its peak - www.telegraph.co.uk
Colorado
Flu Outbreak Fills Local Health Clinics -
www.newschannel5.com Early flu deaths hint of tough season - The Washington Post via The Commercial Appeal Gearing
up to fight the flu - Flu: Getting vaccinated called especially important -
The Sacramento Bee Flu sickens more than 6,300 in Colorado, kills at least five children this year - AP via The San Diego Union-Tribune Flu virus gets early start in city - Chicago Sun-Times Big whoop: Pertussis hacks local schools - The Hook Trials Will Test Whether AIDS Drug Can Also Prevent HIV - Wall Street Journal via AEGiS Thompson begins trip to observe AIDS implications - The Badger Herald - "'The two big issues being addressed on the trip are prevention and treatment," Gardett said. "We are exploring ways to effectively stop [HIV] in places with little communication and education ... and are hoping to get drugs to those places.'" Trials Will Test Whether AIDS Drug Can Also Prevent HIV - Wall Street Journal via www.immunizationinfo.org ASB recognizes World AIDS Day with STD discussion - The Daily Mississippian Africa Seeks to Arrest Spread of Polio Virus - Angola Press Agency via www.allafrica.com Yaws Epidemic Strikes Hundreds In PNG Villages - The National via Pacific Islands Report
Sixty-Six Hospitalized in Vladimir Region With Hepatitis -
ITAR-TASS via
www.immunizationinfo.org The Diabetes Generation - ABC News Healthology Press - "Until recently, type 2 diabetes and heart disease have affected older adults almost exclusively. But the obesity epidemic in America is now putting younger adults at risk for life-threatening diseases that were once rare in those under age 50."
For another perspective on what may be causing this epidemic of diabetes, go to Classen Immunotherapies Inc. Release: More Proof Published That Common Childhood Vaccines Are The Cause Of The Diabetes Epidemic, Data Identifies Children Eligible For Compensation The deadly influence of formula in America - A Natural Family Online Special Report (short version) - Natural Family OnlineThe deadly influence of formula in America (full text) - Natural Family Online
Kids'
Medicine Dosage Test Law Signed - President Bush on Wednesday signed
legislation giving the government the ability to require drug companies to test
medicines to ensure that dosages are appropriate for children. - AP via The
Herald News Expert resigns over HRT warning - A senior adviser on a medicines watchdog has resigned because he disagrees with a health warning issued on hormone replacement therapy. - BBC Doctors given osteoporosis warning - The Herald, UK - "Doctors were yesterday warned by government health advisers to stop using hormone replacement therapy as their first choice of treatment to prevent women suffering osteoporosis." Glaxo's executives tout R&D pipeline - The Philadelphia Inquirer - "GlaxoSmithKline P.L.C., seeking to reassure investors about prospects for drug sales, announced a research-and-development pipeline yesterday that it predicted would make it the fastest-growing drug company in five years." N.C. special session incentives designed to lure Merck plant - AP via The Miami Herald - "State lawmakers will consider plans next week to provide millions of dollars in tax breaks and incentives to pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. to bring a manufacturing plant to Durham County." Human organs not for sale - The Guardian, UK - "The problem may not be new, but it has become no less painful for patients and clinicians. There is an acute shortage of organ donations in the UK." Study Suggests Switching Drugs Could Aid Breast Cancer Patients - The New York Times (registration and/or subscription required) Test May Aid Chemotherapy Decisions - The New York Times (registration and/or subscription required) Parents' looks can affect health - Having a short mother and an overweight father means you are more likely to have health problems as an adult researchers suggest. - BBC Redflagsdaily.com - www.redflagsweekly.com
Breaking News Archives - from December 1, 2003 (check here for breaking news you might have missed) More News - all the news most recently posted on this website All the News - a running tab of everything posted on this website since October 29, 2003 Top Stories Archives - daily breaking and other important news stories Daily News Archives - all the news posted on this website each day (from April 2001)
*Note: Starting December 10, 2003 news will be posted in the "daily news" pages based on when it was posted on this website, not by publication date. Look for the rest of the news/information published on December 4 in the daily news pages from December 10 on. Return to Vaccination News Home Page (for best results, right click to "open in new window") DISCLAIMER: All information, data, and material contained, presented, or provided here is for general information purposes only and is not to be construed as reflecting the knowledge or opinions of the publisher, and is not to be construed or intended as providing medical or legal advice. The decision whether or not to vaccinate is an important and complex issue and should be made by you, and you alone, in consultation with your health care provider.
DISCLAIMER: All information, data, and material contained, presented, or provided here is for general information purposes only and is not to be construed as reflecting the knowledge or opinions of the publisher, and is not to be construed or intended as providing medical or legal advice. The decision whether or not to vaccinate is an important and complex issue and should be made by you, and you alone, in consultation with your health care provider.
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 "A foolish faith in authority is the worst enemy of truth." -- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901 "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820 "What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?" -- Sandy Gottstein "Who gets to decide what the greater good is and how many will be sacrificed to it?" -- Sandy Gottstein |
