Vaccination NewsLetter: Top Stories - December 8 - 15, 2002

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Smallpox/smallpox vaccine

Vaccinations and Smallpox: What you need to know - EXCELLENT

Dr. Tom Mack testimony at ACIP Smallpox meeting - Essential Reading

The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, State Legislative Activity

Nation's Largest Health Care Union Warns That, Without Better Safeguards, Plan Itself Poses Public Health Risks

Israel Vaccinates Soldiers and Health Workers

Guessing How Quickly a Terrorist Smallpox Virus Could Spread

States Prepare Smallpox Vaccine Plans

The Most Dangerous Vaccine

Unbriefed on risks, 2 in 3 want smallpox vaccine, poll says

County Reduces Vaccine Request

Smallpox Scare

Smallpox Shots Will Start Soon Under Bush Plan

Resuming Smallpox Shots Carries Risk

Mass Smallpox Vaccination Program to Launch in 2003

Eight children hospitalized in Russian smallpox scare - note how carefully vials of smallpox vaccine are guarded

Side-Effects of Smallpox Jabs Alarm Volunteers

Citing Dangers, Experts Warn Against Vaccinating Children

For 60 million, the cure may kill

CDC Telebriefing Transcript - Smallpox vaccine - note highlighted statement by Modlin

Bracing for Smallpox Vaccine- Weighing the risks vs. terror threat

Text of Bush's Smallpox Vaccine Speech

Baxter, Acambis, Wyeth, Aventis Could Gain from New Bush Smallpox Vaccine Plan

Question of smallpox vaccine liability remains

Smallpox vaccine not for all - But Bush, troops to be immunized

Developing New Smallpox Vaccines - VACV Immunoglobulin Development

Bush Signals He Thinks Possibility of Smallpox Attack Is Rising

For Victims of Vaccine, Winning Case Will Be Hard

Protection From Smallpox

False Comfort From the Smallpox Vaccine

In Vaccination Plan, A World of Unknowns

Health care workers balk at Bush's vaccine plan - Safety issues cloud smallpox inoculations

U.S. Response: DARPA Leads Push for New Drugs

Health Secretary Won't Get Smallpox Shot

Pentagon plans for smallpox outbreak

Smallpox Martyrs

Research: Will millions already inoculated against smallpox need new vaccinations?

Reaction Is Mixed to Smallpox Inoculations

Smallpox Shot Will Be Free for Those Who Want One

Drug/Vaccine Manufacturers re: Homeland Security Bill

Junk Politics and Special Children - This is an excellent overview

New Vaccine Clause Angers Parents of Autistic - Amendment Buried in Homeland Security Law Restricts Right to Sue Makers of Drug Preservative

US lawmakers against curbs on suing vaccine firms

The Man Behind The Vaccine Mystery

Homeland Security Rider Prompts Protest From Autism Activists - to better understand credible links between autism and mercury, view C-span video of Burton's December 10, 2002 hearing (http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/kdrive/e121002_vaccine.rm - to view online or http://www.c-spanstore.com/174176.html  - to buy)

Plaintiff parents rip shield for vaccine makers

US lawmakers vow repeal of vaccine additive law

Bill shielding drug makers outrages autistic kids' kin

(More Homeland Security related articles posted starting on 12/12/02)  http://www.vaccinationnews.com/HomelandSecurity.htm

Autism

Emotional Hearing Renews Vaccine Safety Doubts

Autism and Vaccines: Is there a link?

Hurt In The Name Of Security

Autism/mercury

Autism/MMR

AIDS/AIDS vaccine

Shifty HIV thwarts AIDS vaccine attempts

Alzheimer's disease/vaccine

Anthrax/anthrax vaccine/Gulf War Syndrome

Anthrax Snub To Soldiers

Chickenpox/chickenpox vaccine

Chickenpox vaccination for all kids - just when we are finding out how ineffective the vaccine really is....

E-News: Chickpox vaccine failure (NVIC)

Double Chickenpox Vaccine May Be Needed: Experts

Outbreak of Varicella at a Day-Care Center despite Vaccination

Flu/flu vaccine

Hepatitis A/hepatitis A vaccine

Many in the Dark About Hepatitis A - Most parents uninformed about childhood disease and vaccine, study says - Note, however,  that hepatitis A is rarely serious in children

Hepatitis B/hepatitis B vaccine

MMR

Parents uniting on MMR

Children without MMR jab struck off GPs' list

Pet vaccines

Polio/polio vaccine

Whooping cough/DPT vaccine

Other vaccines

Vaccines in general

The Belief in Vaccines by Sherri Tenpenny, DO

Vaccination/Infection/Toxicity (I have not read this myself yet.)

Is it the end of an era for eradication? - A debate is brewing within the public health arena questioning the prudence of eradication efforts.

Adverse reactions

Analysis of Causes That Led to Baby Alan Ream Yurko’s Cardiac Arrest and Death in November of 1997 (I have not read this myself yet.)

"The Condition Our Condition Is In"

A Medical Enron

No End to Errors - Three Years After a Landmark Report Found Pervasive Medical Mistakes in American Hospitals, Little has Been Done to Reduce Death and Injury

Conflict of Interest

How the tobacco industry responded to an influential study of the health effects of secondhand smoke

Ethics

Government/science clearly run amok

Oregon’s governor apologises for forced sterilisations

Legal

US Code Collection - Chapter 32 - Chemical and Biological Warfare Program

Dads Fight For MMR

Parental/health rights/exemptions/mandatory

Some parents skip vaccines for kids - Families seek exemptions so children can attend school

Pharmaceutical industry/pharmaceutical industry oversight

Preaching to an absent parish

F.D.A. Seeks Quicker Approval of New Drugs

Congress criticises drugs industry for misleading advertising

Drug firms and doctors: the offers pour in

Letters From Parents

Letter from Sandy Mintz to the New York Times re: Dr. Miller letter, "Protect the Children"

Miscellaneous

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