November  24, 2003                  

Senator: Military must review vaccine use - UPI - "A week after the Pentagon acknowledged one soldier's death might have been caused by a vaccine reaction, a U.S. senator is calling on the military to reconsider mandatory anthrax and smallpox vaccinations that he says could be causing "grievous" harm...Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., plans on Tuesday to introduce a "Sense of the Senate" resolution asking Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to review the vaccine program amid growing reports of serious side effects...'An estimated 84 percent of the personnel who had anthrax vaccine shots ... reported having side effects or reactions'..."

Veteran death linked to Gulf War - The death of an army veteran in 2001 was linked to his service in the 1991 Gulf War, a coroner has ruled. - BBC

Should You Get The Flu Shot? - by Sherri Tenpenny, D.O. - Online Vaccines Conference @ www.redflagsdaily.com

Is Rubella Vaccination Playing A Role In The Rise In Autism? - By RFD Columnist and Vaccination News editor, Sandy Mintz - Online Vaccines Conference @ www.redflagsdaily.com

Comment:  This is scare tactics at its worst.  Mumps is associated with aseptic, not bacterial meningitis.  Aseptic meningitis rarely is as serious as bacterial meningitis or has long-term complications. For more on this click 1, 2 and 3.   Aseptic meningitis is also thought to have occurred as a result of the mumps and MMR vaccine (e.g., click here).

Autism no longer considered a rare condition - Knight Ridder via www.sunherald.com - "Some parents think that childhood vaccinations are a cause of autism, but that theory has been ruled out by researchers, Yeargin-Allsopp said." (Responses to this article can be sent to Diane Carroll at dcarroll@kcstar.com)

Comment: It has only been "ruled out" by some researchers.  For some of the other perspectives on this alleged "ruling out", go to Safe Minds, Scandals: Why We Won't Take No* For An Answer  (*No relationship between MMR and autism) and Scandals: Vaccinations  - Garbage In/Less Than All The Garbage Out?

To learn more about whether or not childhood vaccinations have been "ruled out" as a cause of autism, read Congressman Weldon's recent remarks to the Autism Summit Conference.

Waters & Kraus ' "Vaccine Injury in the News" - www.autismfraud.com

"Autism Fraud" Power Point - Waters & Kraus, Attorneys at Law

"The Effect of Dose on Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of ACAM1000 Smallpox Vaccine in Adult Without Previous Smallpox Vaccination - H300-002" - Clinical Trial at the Mayo Clinic

Assessing the risk of vaccination your cat - "Without treatment she will die within a year" (requires registration) - www.khou.com - "'With treatment hopefully we will get 18 months'...According (to) a task force, scientific research has shown a 1-10 per 10,000 rate of vaccine-related scarcoma (sic) in cats that have received vaccinations...What bothers Shotwell is that even with all the research did she any point did get any suggestion that there was a potential danger to her animal from the vaccination."

Clinical Trials: Vaccines - www.centerwatch.com

Setting Standards in Vaccine Safety - The Brighton Collaboration - "Mission - The Brighton Collaboration is an international voluntary collaboration to facilitate the development, evaluation, and dissemination of high quality information about the safety of human vaccines/Primary aim - To develop globally accepted and implemented standardized case definitions of Adverse Events Following Immunization."

Modelling measles re-emergence as a result of waning of immunity in vaccinated populations. - journal article

Flu jab economy 'puts children's lives at risk' - The Telegraph, UK - "Cost-cutting and the phobia over the MMR vaccine have put young people at greater risk of dying from the Fujian strain of flu, a leading virologist said yesterday."

Pneumococcal Diseases Update - www.docguide.com - "This multi-media webcast reviews the past and current burden of pneumococcal diseases, the evaluation of efficacy of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, the need for continued surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease, and new data on vaccine efficacy, disease incidence and vaccine supply."

National Programme on Immunization Boss, Awosika, Reassures On Safety of Polio Vaccines - Vanguard via www.allafrica.com

Antigenics Rises - The Motley Fool - "Antigenics is placing big hopes on Oncophage, a personalized cancer vaccine made from a patient's own antigens."

Fond du Lac County sees whooping cough 'epidemic' - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Comment:  It can't exactly be blamed on the unvaccinated, given the 99.6% vaccination rate among children in grades K-12.

Human Ebola vaccine trial begins - Phase I safety test of the multimodal vaccine's DNA component will last 1 year – The Scientist

Vaccinations...Needed or Not? - www.yourpurebredpuppy.com

Vaccinations: A Word of Caution for Our Animals – Part I - www.austinholistic.com

Vaccinations: A Word of Caution for Our Animals – Part II - www.austinholistic.com

Vaccine Protocols For Dogs - www.canine-epilepsy-guardian-angels.com

They Shoot Horses but Vaccinate Dogs  - www.positivehealth.com

Vaccine-associated immune-mediated hemolytic anemia in the dog. - journal article (1996)
 

Autism plan buoys hopes for earlier diagnoses, treatment - AP via www.duluthsuperior.com

Autism Treatment Now Offered in Michigan -  Detroit Now - "When a child has autism, a parent is willing to go anywhere and try anything to get help...Thanks to the persistence of one local family, a new breakthrough treatment has just come to Michigan."

Number of Florida children locked up under Baker Act increased 32% in 4 years - www.sun-sentinel.com

Infections, toxic chemicals and dietary peptides binding to lymphocyte receptors and tissue enzymes are major instigators of autoimmunity in autism. - journal article

Schools hit by the flu - Pupils at two public schools in Rutland are being tested to see if a new strain of flu virus has hit the area. - BBC

Mexico closes four onion exporters after Pa. hepatitis outbreak - AP via pennlive.com

Local Health Officials Clarify Hepatitis Viruses

AIDS: 'a silent storm' - The Chicago Sun-Times

Profit Margins, Death Rates, Drug Patents and HIV/AIDS - FindLaw - "To protect their exorbitant profits, drug companies are fighting the production and distribution of cheap generic versions of patented drugs."
 

Kansas City clinics inundated with calls after hepatitis C series - Jefferson City News Tribune

U.S. Moves To Reduce Ebola Bioterrorism Threat – U.S. State Department via www.scoop.co.nz

WHO reports 24 Ebola cases in Congo – CIDRAP News

Army Reserve battles an exodus - Branch misses its retention goal by 6.7 percent - The Boston Globe via The Dayton Daily News

Gov't: Salmonella Declining in Raw Meat - The Herald-Sun

With dry pipelines, big drugmakers stock up in Japan - Western pharmaceutical makers are turning to Japanese companies that have discovered blockbuster treatments using intuition and low-budget lab work rather than high-tech tools, fueling a debate about the best way to develop drugs. - Wall Street Journal (subscription required)

Air pollution and case fatality of SARS in the People's Republic of China: An ecologic study - journal article - "Our studies demonstrated a positive association between air pollution and SARS case fatality in Chinese population by utilizing publicly accessible data on SARS statistics and air pollution indices. Although ecologic fallacy and uncontrolled confounding effect might have biased the results, the possibility of a detrimental effect of air pollution on the prognosis of SARS patients deserves further investigation."
 

The Risk of Childhood Cancer after Neonatal Exposure to Vitamin K (requires registration) - journal article (NEJM) (1993)
 

Breast Intentions - Burger King has promised to welcome nursing women at their restaurants.  If only they could make their food as healthy as mother's milk - MSNBC

Group that advises doctors on preventive health care loses funding, must fold  -  Health Canada via Canadian Press

Post-op quality of life bypasses women - The Herald-Sun - "Women in a newly published Duke University Medical Center study had more emotional problems after coronary bypass surgery than did their male counterparts, surprising researchers and leaving them unsure of the reasons for the disparity."

Reminders to parents could lower kids' hospital admissions - Researchers recommend greater attention to follow-up visits as one way to avoid some expensive and disruptive pediatric hospitalizations. - www.ama-assn.org

A drug that works -- for some: Researchers try to solve mystery of lung cancer medicine - www.boston.com

Medtronic Announces Humanitarian Regulatory Clearance for Heart-Repair Product to Serve American Children - Business Wire

Schafer Autism Report

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