From Medscape:
DESPITE IOM REPORT, CONGRESSMAN WANTS RECALL OF MMR VACCINE, CITING AUTISM RISK
The chair of the House Government Reform Committee today (April 26,2001) blasted federal science and health officials for not recalling MMR vaccine that he says may be causing autism, and for allowing some lots of DTaP vaccine that contain thimerosal to be distributed.http://id.medscape.com/37199.rhtml?srcmp=id-050401
With the incidence of meningococcal disease in the UK at a 50-year high, and doctors facing a record number of lawsuits for misdiagnosing the condition, the Meningitis Research Foundation yesterday issued new guidance for GPs on diagnosing and treating meningitis and septicemia. http://id.medscape.com/37193.rhtml?srcmp=id-050401
Pregnant women with preconceptual immunity to CMV are not protected against infection with a new strain of the virus and may also transmit it to their infants, according to results from a new study published in the May 3rd issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. http://id.medscape.com/37397.rhtml?srcmp=id-050401
SELF-REPLICATIVE RNA VACCINES PROTECT MICE FROM VIRAL
DISEASES
Self-replicative RNA vaccines are capable of protecting mice
against influenza A virus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and a tickborne encephalitis
virus, according to a report published in the May 1st issue of The
Journal of Infectious Diseases.
http://id.medscape.com/37242.rhtml?srcmp=id-050401
RECOMBINANT YEAST VACCINES INDUCE PROTECTIVE
CELL-MEDIATED IMMUNITY
Whole recombinant yeast vaccines can activate dendritic
cells and induce protective cell-mediated immunity, according to a report
published in the May issue of Nature Medicine.
http://id.medscape.com/37240.rhtml?srcmp=id-050401
Acellular pertussis vaccine is less likely to cause seizures
than whole cell pertussis vaccine, according to a study of nearly a million children
aged 2 years or younger by the US CDC. http://id.medscape.com/37197.rhtml?srcmp=id-050401
VACCINATIONS GIVEN DURING ACTIVE BREASTFEEDING ARE
BETTER TOLERATED
Infants who receive diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus
immunization while actively breastfeeding show fewer signs of discomfort than
infants who are not breastfeeding, say researchers from McGill University’s
Montreal Children’s Hospital Research Institute.
http://id.medscape.com/37205.rhtml?srcmp=id-050401
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