Incentive Tips - The National Immunization Program - CDC

Neighbor told to steer clear of autistic lad - Boston Herald - "The Quincy woman accused of mercilessly harassing an 11-year-old neighbor with autism claiming he brought down her property values was ordered yesterday by a judge to stay away from the child."

Parents look for help on fees - Apple Valley Sun Current -  "For a homeowner, the prospect of selling their house and moving to a new home is often a thrilling, exciting experience. Unless you are Krissa Leitz and her two children...Leitz, who recently closed on her house, is moving to a smaller home in Lakeville in order to continue to afford to send her children, Ryan and Abby, to therapy for their autism...Leitz’s story is not unique."

Cote d'Ivoire: Fears of Meningitis and Typhoid in Rebel-Held North - AAfrica News Service via www.immunizationinfo.org

Protest death sparks meningitis concern  - AP via CNN - "A volunteer medic who treated injured demonstrators at a free trade meeting last week died Wednesday of bacterial meningitis, sparking a health investigation to determine whether others were exposed."

Thousands sickened in early, severe flu season - Especially virulent strain of virus is cropping up - CNN - "'One of the reported deaths from flu this year was of a child with symptoms that were not consistent with the flu,' said Dr. Ned Calonge, Colorado's chief medical officer...'The loss of this child is tragic, but parents need to know this is a very unusual case, and that there have not been any similar cases in Colorado or Texas, where flu activity has been the worst to date in the United States this year," he said in a statement on the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Web site.'"

Cleaning Today's Commercial Produce Imperative To Health - The Ponca City News

Ignorance Hampers AIDS Fight in Asia - AP via www.heraldsun.com - "A doctor from Afghanistan stunned a conference on AIDS this month by revealing that he didn't know what the symptoms of the disease were."

Comment:  Maybe the reason this good doctor doesn't know what the symptoms are is because there is not a definitive thing called "AIDS".  Here's what Professor Peter Duesberg had to say about AIDS in his book Inventing the AIDS Virus: "This war has been fought in the name of the virus-AIDS hypothesis, which holds that HIV, the AIDS virus, is a new cause of thirty old diseases, including Kaposi's sarcoma, tuberculosis, dementia, pneumonia, weight loss, diarrhea, leukemia, and twenty-three others (see chapter 6).  If any of these previously known diseases now occurs in a patient who has antibodies against HIV (but rarely ever any HIV), then his or her disease is diagnosed as AIDS and blamed on HIV.  If the same disease occurs in a patient without HIV-antibodies, his or her diseases is diagnosed by its old name and blamed on conventional chemical or microbial causes."

UN: China has chance to contain spread of HIV/AIDS - China Daily

Congress passes sweeping changes - Republican victories spur partisan animosity - AP via The Daily Camera - "With wide bipartisan support, Congress approved a five-year, $15 billion bill proposed by the president to combat AIDS in 14 African and Caribbean nations. Another $5.6 billion over 10 years was set aside to research and stockpile vaccines in response to the threat of bioterrorist attacks."

Europe to issue passports for pets - AP via Yahoo! - "Owners will be able to use a standardized blue booklet stamped with the European Union (news - web sites)'s circle of gold stars, listing vaccinations and certifying the pets are rabies-free."

Rabies threatens rare wolf with extinction - www.iol.co.za

Designing a dope test for research (requires registration) - BioMedNet - "Scientific misconduct is like doping in sports, says leading biochemist Peter Hans Hofschneider. The scientific community must remain alert to the problem, even small infractions of good working practice should not be tolerated."