Hot Topics - Diseases and vaccines - Autoimmunity/autoimmune disease

Hot Topics - Diseases and vaccines - Autoimmunity/autoimmune disease (in general) 

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Diseases and vaccines - Autoimmunity/autoimmune disease (in general) 

March 1-7, 2004

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February 23-29, 2004

►February 19, 2004 - Rare Disease Endemic In South America Is Model For Studying Autoimmunity - A group of men living amid the gold mines and disappearing jungles of northeastern Colombia, is giving a Medical College of Georgia scientist unprecedented access to study how the wrong combination of genetics and environment cause the body to turn on itself. - Medical College Of Georgia via www.sciendaily.com

February 16-22, 2004

►February 11, 2004 - Induction of lupus autoantibodies by adjuvants - BioMedNet - "The ability to induce lupus autoantibodies is shared by several hydrocarbons and is not unique to pristane. It correlates with stimulation of the production of IL-12 and other cytokines, suggesting a relationship with a hydrocarbon's adjuvanticity. The potential to induce autoimmunity may complicate the use of oil adjuvants in human and veterinary vaccines."

Comment:  Lupus has been reported as a vaccine-associated reaction at least 137 times to VAERS and has been reported in the medical literature as well. (The list of articles in the literature includes only systemic lupus erythematosus, i.e., SLE)

February 9-15, 2004

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January 26 - February 8, 2004 (2 weeks combined due to illness)

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January 19-25, 2004

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January 12-18, 2004

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January 5-11, 2004

►January 9, 2004 - Doubts on vaccine patch for children - Sydney Morning Herald - "An adhesive patch hailed as a revolutionary method of mass vaccination may increase a child's risk of developing type-one diabetes and multiple sclerosis, Australian researchers have found."

►January 7, 2004 - Immune System Attack Tied to Birth Defects - A new study bolsters the case for folic acid supplements in women of childbearing age. - HealthDay Reporter via www.healthcentral.com

►March 27, 2003 - Environmental Factors in Autoimmune Diseases Workshop (archived report) - February 4-5, 2003, Durham, NC

►December 8, 2003 - When the Body Attacks Itself - Autoimmunity: Rates of immune disorders like Crohn's and MS more than doubled in 40 years - Newsweek via MSNBC - "

Comment: Note that the New York Times reported that "many of us are not receiving enough infections", as well as that "the final consequence of all of this, according to the theory, is that — maybe — those who grow up in less hygienic, less germ-free and less vaccine-punctured environments have substantially lower rates of an array of autoimmune and allergic diseases like multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, asthma and eczema."  For more on this, go to: Scandals: Prescription For Disaster - Is Vaccine Policy A "House of Cards"?

►January 6, 2004 - Needle-free vaccines may cause more harm than good: study - AEDT via www.abc.net.au - "Professor Alan Baxter says the onset of auto immune diseases accelerated when the patches were tested on mice...This can lead to inflammation of the pancreas or brain."

December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004

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