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March 1-7, 2004

►March 3, 2004 - Red Cross Examines Blood Supply After Hepatitis Case - Some Donors Ate At Taco Bell With Infected Employee - www.thechamplainchannel.com
 

February 23-29, 2004

►February 25, 2004 - Youngsters, Fetuses Are Most Vulnerable - Studies Find IQ, Socialization Problems (requires registration) - Washington Post 

►February 27, 2004 - Water Warning Vexes Parents - Fear and Anger Expressed Over D.C.'s Lead Problem (requires registration) - The Washington Post

►February 2004 - Body Of Evidence: New Science In The Debate Over Toxic Flame Retardants And Our Health - U.S. PIRG Reports 

►February 16, 2004 - Prenatal lead exposure linked to schizophrenia - New Scientist  

►February 24, 2004 - Chemical PBDE Showing Up in Breast Milk - AP via The Herald-Sun

►February 23, 2004 - Flame retardants in cellars taint wine - A new chemical culprit can make wine taste musty. - journal article (Nature)

February 16-22, 2004

►February 18, 2004 - Hygiene concern at GP's practice - An inquiry has been launched into how unsterilised equipment was used for internal medical examinations on women. - BBC - "Last year, the medical practice operated by Dr Tahira Idrees was investigated over out-of-date vaccines."

February 9-15, 2004

►February 3, 2004 - Special syringes at govt clinics - The Times of India - "The health department of the Delhi government has bought about three lakh auto-disposable syringes to be used at the city’s 175 state government dispensaries. The syringes will be used for immunisation purposes...Senior health department officials said that the move was prompted by ‘‘persistent reports of re-use of syringes’’ in hospitals and dispensaries, especially in the far-flung areas of Delhi...The move, he added, would provide additional safeguards against possible transmission of viruses like HIV and those of hepatitis B and C. It could prove to be of immense help in the state government’s initiatives to control the spread of these diseases."

Comment:  For more on the re-use of syringes and the spread of so-called "vaccine-preventable" disease, go to Scandals: "But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last." - Thomas Moore (Scandals - update and "flashback")

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

►February 6, 2004 - Warning to patients over dirty equipment - The Herald, UK - "Hospital patients have been offered screening  for blood-borne viruses after being examined with unsterilised equpiment."

►February 3, 2004 - Vaccines Containing Aluminum Appear Safe - Lancet Infectious Diseases via Reuters Health

►February 5, 2004 - DTP vaccines: alum deemed to be safe - A new study has concluded that DTP vaccines containing aluminum are safe. - www.commentwire.com - "Safety fears have plagued the vaccine industry in recent years, with concerns related to individual product types and vaccine ingredients, including the adjuvant alum. A recent review, published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, has concluded that vaccines containing alum are not associated with increased adverse events. This study should help to alleviate patient concerns and maintain uptake."

Comment:  Here is what I said earlier about this "review": If the studies used for the review are the same kind of short-term, small sample, no genuine control group study normally used to vindicate vaccines, don't bet on them being meaningful or proving anything, other than that you can "prove" anything you want.

►February 5, 2004 - Vaccines Containing Aluminum Appear Safe - Planet Ark - "To investigate the safety of aluminum-containing DTP vaccines, Dr. Tom Jefferson, from Cochrane Vaccines Field in Rome, and colleagues reviewed eight studies that recorded patient outcomes following vaccination and the amount of aluminum in the vaccine...'Despite a lack of good-quality evidence we do not recommend that any further research on this topic is undertaken," the authors conclude."

Comment:  That just about says it all.  (If the studies used for the review are the same kind of short-term, small sample, no genuine control group study normally used to vindicate vaccines, don't bet on them being meaningful or proving anything, other than that you can "prove" anything you want.)

►January 28, 2004 - Blood Transfusion Suspected in New Mad Cow Case in Britain (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times - "A Food and Drug Administration policy announced on Monday banning the feeding of cattle blood to calves was partly based on a new case of mad cow disease in which a Briton may have been infected through a blood transfusion, a Food and Drug Administration official said on Tuesday...At a Senate hearing, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, questioned why the food agency had instituted the ban when, he said, scientific evidence indicated that infectious particles that are believed to cause mad cow disease, misfolded proteins called prions, had never been found in blood."

January 19-25, 2004

none selected this week

January 12-18, 2004

►January 16, 2004 - Fine-featured foes are for the birds - Daily Record - "As if we didn't have enough to worry about!...Carbon monoxide, radon, asbestos, mad cow disease, global warming, interest rates that may soar, a stock market that's anything but cheap...Now you can add bird droppings to the list. And three culprits in particular: pigeons, starlings and English sparrows. (Lesser felons: crows and gulls.)"

►January 17, 2004 - Tuna could soon carry mercury warning - Naples Daily News - "As the federal government mulls slapping a mercury advisory on tuna, Southwest Florida seafood retailers say some customers are concerned that the food they thought was healthy could be hurting them...Experts say there's cause for concern, particularly for pregnant women and young children."

►January 16, 2004 - Mercury: The Latest Green Scare Campaign - www.anxietycenter.com  - "The Greens have mastered the ability to conjure up a scare campaign about almost anything to such perfection, one almost forgets that they are a lying bunch of lowlifes whose past lies have harmed the timber industry, those engaged in ranching and agriculture, those who provide the chemical building blocks of everything we use every day, and those responsible for providing the energy this nation requires to function."

►January 14, 2004 - U.S. rethinking rules on importing bovine tissues - Abilene Reporter-News - "Now that the United States has mad-cow disease, federal regulators are reconsidering long-held policies aimed at prohibiting importation of products or ingredients with bovine tissue or blood from countries with documented cases of the illness...The products include vaccines, nutritional supplements and cosmetics, all of which can contain ingredients derived from cows."

Comment:  Interesting dilemma.  If the ban is continued, we now would be unable to use our own products (at least, theoretically). 

►January 14, 2004 - Students tested for mercury on Sunday - The Record-Courier - "Investigators from the Center for Disease Control and Nevada Department of Health offered urine analyses over the weekend for students involved in the mercury contamination at Pau-Wa-Lu Middle School...'We'll keep cleaning until we reach 300 parts per trillion -- which is about the amount given off from dental fillings,' said Douglas County School District Superintendent John Soderman on Sunday...'The danger is being overplayed, most definitely,' said his half sister Carmen Daniels, who is visiting from Pine Grove, Calif...Ricky's father, Richard Padovani, disagreed...'You can't over react with something like this. Mercury is pretty dangerous.'"

Comment:  Note that this is external exposure.  Not ingested.  Not injected. 

►January 13, 2004 - House of horrors - Sperm counts are falling and cancer levels are rising. Something is very wrong somewhere, but what? The answer, says Hilary Freeman, may be uncomfortably close to home ... - The Guardian, UK - "Buying organic and filtering your water may make you feel more secure, but it does little to protect you or your family from environmental toxins. Forget traffic pollution: the average Briton's home is almost certainly swimming in a cocktail of chemicals, many of which have been linked to allergies, cancers and infertility."

►January 13, 2004 - Parents complain of inadequate answers after mercury contamination - Reno Gazette-Journal

►January 13, 2004 - Nonfood use of cow parts faces review - www.sacbee.com - "Now that the United States has mad cow disease, federal regulators are reconsidering long-held policies aimed at prohibiting importation of products or ingredients with bovine tissue or blood from countries with documented cases of the illness...The products include vaccines, nutritional supplements and cosmetics, all of which can contain ingredients derived from cows."

Comment:  For more on the presence of bovine products in vaccines, go to Scandals: On "mad cows" and sick monkeys: From the people who brought you SV40 in vaccines....

►January 12, 2004 - Guess what's coming in dinner - Mad cow disease scare, salmon warning have consumers wondering what on their plates is safe to eat - Tri-Valley Herald Online

Comment:  As well they should.  But what about showing the same concern for what is injected into their bodies?

January 5-11, 2004

►January 11, 2004 - Has fish had its chips? - If you have suddenly lost your appetite for salmon, don't get too fond of the other options. Trouble is brewing for all farmed seafood, reports Stephen Khan - The Guardian, UK - "This was not some fringe pressure group or band of tree-hugging environmentalists out to rattle cages. It was some of the world's leading experts on industrial pollution. And what they had to say was devastating: farmed salmon was poisonous. What's more, the most dangerous fish of all were salmon raised in Scotland...Researchers based at the University of Albany in New York revealed in the journal Science how they found high levels of contaminants such as PCBs, dioxins and pesticides in Scottish fish, which is marketed around the world as a premium product. Eating more than three portions a year, they warned, risked increasing the consumer's chances of developing cancer."

Comment:  Wow, only three portions a year!  But perhaps you prefer getting your toxins by injecting them directly into your body; if so, try vaccines.  (Of course vaccine toxins are just fine and dandy and pose absolutely no health risk.)

►January 11, 2004 - Government scientists warned watchdog of salmon safety risk - Food agency told of poison fears last year … but ignored advice - Sunday Herald, UK

Comment:  Might the government scientists, perchance, be putting industry needs ahead of individual health?

►January 8, 2004 - Analyze this (bioremediate that) - Contamination with nuclear materials of 1.7 trillion gallons of ground water, and over 40 million m3 of soil, debris, and waste at 120 sites has been hailed the US "cold war legacy." Could bioremediation help solve the problem? - (registration required) - BioMedNet

►January 8, 2004 - Farmed salmon more toxic than wild salmon, study finds - Eating salmon may pose health risks - Indiana University via www.eurekalert.org

►January 9, 2004 - Farmed Salmon Have More Contaminants Than Wild Ones, Study Finds (requires registration or subscription) - The New York Times

►January 5, 2004 - No bovine vaccines coming from U.S. - http://calgary.cbc.ca - "The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has temporarily suspended the importation from the United States of any vaccines made from ruminant protein. It wants to make sure that there is no risk of them carrying bovine spongiform encephalopathy."

Comment:  Human vaccines routinely use bovine serum.  For more on this go to Scandals: On "mad cows" and sick monkeys: From the people who brought you SV40 in vaccines....

December 29, 2003 - January 4, 2004

►January 2, 2003 - Scandals: On "mad cows" and sick monkeys: From the people who brought you SV40 in vaccines.... - by Sandy Mintz

►September 24, 1998 - International Conference on Harmonisation; Guidance on Viral Safety Evaluation of Biotechnology Products Derived From Cell Lines of Human or Animal Origin; Availability - FDA/HHS - "The risk of viral contamination is a feature common to all biotechnology products derived from cell lines. Such contamination could have serious clinical consequences and can arise from the contamination of the source cell lines themselves (cell substrates) or from adventitious introduction of virus during production. To date, however, biotechnology products derived from cell lines have not been implicated in the transmission of viruses. Nevertheless, it is expected that the safety of these products with regard to viral
contamination can be reasonably assured only by the application of a virus testing program and assessment of virus removal and inactivation achieved by the manufacturing process, as outlined below.

Comment:  Given how long SV40 has been implicated in human cancers, it is hard to understand how such a statement can be made.  For more on the problem of contamination of vaccines, see Scandals: On "mad cows" and sick monkeys: From the people who brought you SV40 in vaccines.....  For more on SV40 and cancer, go to Scandals: The Institute of Medicine Review Of SV40 Contamination of Polio Vaccine and Cancer

 

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