Daily News 2012-08-28

Tue, 08/28/2012 - 12:03pm — admin

Confirmed: India’s Polio Eradication Campaign in 2011 Caused 47,500 Cases of Vaccine-Induced Polio Paralysis by Dr. Mercola

CSL, whose vaccine was tied to convulsions, gets FDA closeout letter - Two-year study found excess virus but couldn't say why

Amy Wallace and Thomas Goetz: Wired to Pharma by Jake Crosby - Age of Autism

The virtue of vaccines - A higher vaccination rate will help protect California schoolchildren from disease. A bill seeks to make it harder for parents to decline vaccinations.

New Drugs Advisory Committee of Vaccine gives nod to 9 proposals for trials, market authorization of vaccines

Scientists discover new compound which makes vaccines much more effective

Breakenridge: Government undermines its vaccination message

Immunization: U.S. Hispanics skipping life-saving vaccines

Whooping cough cases expected to hit 10-year high

Free anti-cancer vaccine for women - 19,000 women did not take up the offer of a free HPV vaccine the last time it was offered for free in 2009 despite it preventing 70 percent of all cervical cancer cases

Measles-Rubella vaccine safe: UNICEF Nepal Rep

Our View: Vaccines save lives, slow disease spread

Trials to develop vaccine against cervical cancer put on hold

Vaccinations still the best bet

Parents who choose not to get their kids vaccinated putting others at risk, study shows

No risks seen with flu shot in early pregnancy

This Pharma Company Admits to $2 Million in Bribes to Government and Health Officials

Botched child vaccinations leave hundreds of children at risk

Vaccination error means new jabs for 220 children

Kids must get new jabs

The HSE said the vaccines, which protect against serious conditions such as whooping cough, tetanus, diphtheria, measles and meningitis, may not have been prepared and administered properly by a GP in a practice in Newcastle, Co. Dublin. The health ...
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Tips for preventing whooping cough from Umatilla County Health

Public Health wants to help you to prevent Pertussis, also known as “whooping cough” in your family. “Classrooms are a great breeding ground for germs” reports Genni Lehnert-Beers, Umatilla County Public Health administrator. “Having children ...
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Dangers of pertussis or whooping cough revealed

Unlike other spots in the nation, Northwest Missouri has not had a breakout of whooping cough; yet the dangers still lurk for children under the age of one who are not fully vaccinated or children who are not vaccinated at all. Whooping cough is a ...
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Vaccinations called for after rise in confirmed British measles cases

The first six months of 2012 have seen almost twice as many confirmed cases of measles in England and Wales compared to the same period in 2011, according to figures published on Friday. There have been 964 cases confirmed this year, while 2011 only ...
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Vaccine News Daily (blog)

Union's vaccination position is untenable

The BCNU's position seems to suggest that the adverse effects of the vaccine are so severe that it's better to expose patients to potential harm rather than ...

Son Had Gardasil Vaccine and now Im Terrified after Googling

I am a wreck right now. On Friday I had to take my two older sons for their annual physicals. They are 13 and 11 years old. I knew in advance the doctor might ...
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US lauds India's role in eradicating polio

New Delhi: The US appreciates India's role in eradicating polio and the joint effort by both the countries towards ensuring child survival, US representative to the United Nations Susan Rice said here Tuesday. "I appreciate India's role in eradicating ...
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Whooping cough cases expected to hit 10-year high

The national outbreak of pertussis, or whooping cough, is hitting Connecticut and has public health officials calling on residents to get vaccine boosters. Last year, there were 68 reported cases of pertussis in the state. There have been 111 reports ...
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Ohio H3N2v cases rise to 98

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday that 52 new human cases of the strain were confirmed, bringing the overall number in the nation to 276 cases since July. The CDC said that the main risk factor for infection is the ...
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Vaccine News Daily (blog)

No risks seen with flu shot in early pregnancy

That was identical to the rate among almost 77,000 pregnant women who did not get the vaccine. What's more ... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other groups recommend that all pregnant women get a seasonal flu shot.
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Back-to-School Vaccination Checklist

For your tween, it is important they receive vaccination for meningococcal meningitis. In addition, health experts also urge all parents with adolescent girls, as young as 11-years-old, to get vaccinated for the human papillomavirus (HPV). In 2006 U.S ...
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Medical Daily

Guinea worm is poised to become the second human disease to be eradicated

As a result, the ailment, also known as dracunculiasis, is poised to become the second human disease (the first was smallpox) to be eradicated — and the first to be eliminated without the aid of a vaccine. Guinea worm expert Donald Hopkins, who has ...
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The Age of Autism Book

Leave a comment to win a bottle of Kensho Nutritional Support (powder) for the hyperactive child and a jar of GabaMag cream with NO formaldehyde releasing ...

New Vaccine For CSM

The Ghana Health Service and its development partners are working towards reducing meningitis related maternal and infant mortality by ensuring that all persons from age one to 29 are vaccinated with a new Cerebro Spinal Meningitis Vaccine known at ...
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WHY? – “Jonathan's Hope” (Stereogum Premiere)

In preparation for October's Mumps, Etc., WHY? put out an EP recently, something that re-established the dormant group's offbeat ways in the ecosystem. Today, they're giving us a taste of the new long-player via the colorful, wobbly “Jonathan's Hope ...
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Stereogum

Botched child vaccinations leave hundreds of children at risk

The vaccines in question were supposed to contain medicines to protect children against diseases and viruses such as Diphtheria, Hepatitis B, Measles, Meningococcal C (MenC) disease, Mumps, Pertussis (Whooping cough), Pneumococcal disease, Polio, ...
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3 siblings diagnosed with measles in NW Arkansas

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Health Department says three siblings have been diagnosed with measles and unvaccinated students at a northwest Arkansas boarding school where two of them are students have been sent home. The agency said ...
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Dynavax Tech Says FDA Advisory Committee To Review Heplisav - Quick Facts

Heplisav is an investigational adult hepatitis B vaccine for which a U.S. BLA has been accepted for review by the FDA and a MAA has been accepted for review by the EMA. In Phase 3 trials, Heplisav demonstrated higher and earlier protection with fewer ...
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Immunization: U.S. Hispanics skipping life-saving vaccines

Hispanics are less likely to take part in pneumococcal vaccinations, ... Pneumococcal vaccines prevent against a lung infection caused by Streptococcus ...

Chickenpox Down 80 Percent Since 2000

Chickenpox cases decreased most in children ages 1 through 9, who were most likely to get the vaccine, according to the C.D.C. After 2006, chickenpox decreased especially prominently in children ages 5 through 9, the group most likely to have gotten a ...
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EMA warns Pacira over anti-cancer medicine manufacturing deficiencies

DepoCyte is a prolonged release liposomal suspension containing cytarabine for the intrathecal treatment of lymphomatous meningitis. The inspection was conducted by UK and French regulators at the company's manufacturing plant in San Diego, US.
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West Nile found in Grand Forks County

The first two human cases of West Nile virus this year in Grand Forks County have been confirmed by the North Dakota Department of Health. One case has been classified as meningitis, the other as the less-severe “non-neural-invasive,” meaning it is ...
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Circumcision, and why pediatricians are offering more support

As officials with the American Academy of Pediatrics crafted their statement on circumcision, a highly anticipated show of qualified support for the procedure released Monday, they were fully aware that their report would come under fire. Though the ...
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Connecticut Whooping Cough Cases Expected To Hit 10-Year High

People who received the standard series of pertussis vaccines in childhood are contracting the disease, often in adolescence. The Centers for Disease Control recommends a pertussis booster, Tdap, for people age 11 and older to boost immunity. Last year ...
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Number of Connecticut whooping cough cases to hit 10-year high this year

The Centers for Disease Control recommends a pertussis booster, Tdap, for people age 11 and older to boost immunity. Last year ... to 12 months.” Anyone who has contact with an infant or is immune compromised should promptly get the vaccine, she added.
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Families warned about rise in measles

Dr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at the HPA, said: “It's extremely concerning that measles cases are continuing to rise. “Measles can be very serious, and parents should understand the risks associated with the infection, which in severe cases can ...
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Shields Gazette

The virtue of vaccines

Serious adverse reactions to vaccinations are exceedingly rare, and repeated studies have long discredited claims of a link to autism.

Breakenridge: Government undermines its vaccination message

The publicly funded Calgary Catholic School District refuses to allow the HPV vaccine to be administered in schools, meaning that HPV vaccination rates for girls in the district remain very low. Despite mounting public pressure, Calgary Bishop Fred ...
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Midlothian polio 'survivors' in sporting challenge

Although polio was eradicated in Britain in the early 1960s, some of those affected by the epidemics between the 1930s and 1950s went on to develop weakness, stamina problems, fatigue and pain. However, the Paralympian spirit is present among people ...
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Taliban undermining efforts to control polio in Pakistan

"It seems public health is the latest casualty of Pakistan's fight against homegrown militants and extremist groups," Huma Yusuf, a columnist for the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, writes in this post in the New York Times' "Latitude" blog, highlighting a ...
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Measles Cases on Rise in West Midlands

Measles-Cases The Health Protection Agency has urged parents to make sure that their children receives measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab, before they return to school from vacation. Concern is not without a reason, as a significant rise has been ...
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TopNews Arab Emirates

Rachel Stevens reveals 'very special blend' for fighting chickenpox

I need my bed!” Luckily for Amelie, who turns 2 in November, Rachel later tweeted, “Music group time for us… doc said pox aren't catching anymore… we are aloud (sic) out, whoop!!!” Do you have any home remedies for chickenpox? Let us know below…
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Measles-Rubella vaccine safe: UNICEF Nepal Rep

DHURKOT: United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Nepal Vaccine programme in-charge Bishnu Poudel has said that rumour spread about side effects of measles and rubella vaccines on children is not true. He has urged the people to participate in the ...
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Scotland Chooses Gardasil Over Cervarix | PRLog

Scotland Chooses Gardasil Over Cervarix. Scotland will begin using Gardasil rather than Cervarix as its HPV vaccine of choice during the coming school year.
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Vaccines save lives, slow disease spread

Here's the problem: Immunization rates have been declining in Wisconsin, and Marathon and Lincoln counties are part of that trend. It's not likely a coincidence, then, that this year Wisconsin had the highest rate of pertussis infections in the country ...
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Measles cases double in England and Wales

The number of confirmed cases of measles in the first half of the year was almost double the number seen during the equivalent period in 2011, new figures show. There were 964 cases reported to the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in the first six months ...
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Amy Wallace and Thomas Goetz: Wired to Pharma

By Jake Crosby Considering the recent abuse I sustained from millionaire vaccine industrialist Paul Offit last spring, I am continually amazed at the ...

The Difference Between Rubella and Rubeola

Rubella is also called German measles, while rubeola is regular measles. The biggest difference between the two is that rubella is considered to be a milder disease that only lasts around three days. Rubeola can become a serious illness that lasts ...
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Public health officials are saying this year's increase in whooping cough ...

“While the new version is considered safer, it is possible it isn't as effective long term,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, who oversees the CDC's immunization and respiratory disease programs. The CDC revised its recommendation on the Tdap vaccine and now ...
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Feds to investigate whether ineffective vaccine at root of whooping cough outbreak

More than 3,500 people across Washington have had whooping cough this year, an epidemic that's caught now the attention of the Centers for Disease Control. From infants to adults, federal health officials will be trying to figure out if the issue is ...
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Nigerian unrest harming anti-polio efforts

"Polio immunisation coverage has dropped in areas where Boko Haram attacks occur because immunisation personnel would not want to go into such areas for safety reasons." He said this partly explained the upsurge in new polio cases, though other ...
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Measles boom causes health chiefs concern

Experts are urging parents whose children haven't already had the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab to make sure they are vaccinated before the start of the new school year, fearing a rapid spread of the illness. Almost as many cases were reported ...
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Burton Mail

Bavarian Nordic Reports First Half 2012 Financial Results

Continued strong performance in the manufacturing of IMVAMUNER smallpox vaccines; Infectious disease division increases profitability; Raises full year group financial expectations and year-end cash preparedness. KVISTGAARD, Denmark, August 28, ...
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MEMSCAP REGPT : MEMSCAP PARTNERS WITH HANKING GROUP TO ...

The HANKING Group will begin offering extensive training and sales support for MEMSCAP's MUMPs Multi Project Wafers service to MEMS design engineers in China. The Group will also focus on MUMPs-PLUS! opportunities, which allows designers to ...
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Confirmed: India's Polio Eradication Campaign in 2011 Caused 47500 Cases of ...

... Organization (WHO), Rotary International, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are attributing to the intense polio vaccination campaign. The Indian government reportedly had 2.3 million vaccine administrators ...
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Polio workers refuse to give out drops in protest

Karachi—The employees deployed to administer the polio drops to the minor children have refused to perform duty due to delay in investigations of attacks on them in the past. The emergency meeting of the PM's Polio Control Cell has been convened to ...
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Video shows baby's pertussis struggle

Te Aroha mother Stacey Illingworth gave permission for the video of her daughter Sativah, who was too young to be fully immunised against pertussis, to be published. Sativah spent five weeks in Waikato Hospital. "I would hate for any family to have ...
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American Academy of Pediatrics shifts stance on circumcision ...

CBS News The health benefits from male circumcision outweigh the risks says the American Academy of Pediatrics in its latest guidelines on the controversial ...
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R. Palmer Beasley dies at 76; linked hepatitis B to liver cancer

He also discovered that a shot of human globulin, an antibody-rich precursor to the hepatitis B vaccine, could protect babies against the virus. "This was a really big breakthrough because it showed for the first time that intervention was possible ...
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Los Angeles Times

Big jump in measles prompts MMR call

Officials said parents should ensure that their children received the MMR vaccination, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella – before going back to school. Dr Mary Ramsay, the head of immunisation at the HPA, said: "It's extremely ...
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Measles cases double as doubts over MMR vaccine linger

Cases of rubella are also at a nine-year high, the figures showed, and mumps could return, it is feared. It is thought the rise is due to continued low vaccine uptake in some parts of the country, with outbreaks occurring in Merseyside and Sussex. In ...
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Telegraph.co.uk

Polio athlete who wants to inspire Pakistan

Pakistani polio survivor Mudassar Baig dreams of winning a medal at the London Paralympics, hoping to inspire a nation troubled by corruption, Taliban violence and lost sporting glory. 2012-08-27 14:21:35. Karachi. AFP ...
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Mid-Day

Mayor defends Lily Lake precautions

The illness, a form of meningitis, killed 9-year-old Jack Ariola Erenberg on Aug. 7 and 7-year-old Annie Elizabeth Bahneman two years ago. Both swam in Lily Lake before rapidly falling sick. Only one person out of 123 known infected persons in the ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune

Measles vaccine plea to parents as cases leap

The number of cases of rubella – or German measles – has also increased. The HPA said 57 cases of the viral infection were reported between January and June – exceeding the previous nine years' annual totals. Bristol University professor of paediatrics ...
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Measles outbreak worries disease experts

Infectious disease experts have warned that some Australian communities may be missing out on immunisations following an outbreak of measles in NSW. The Royal College of Pathologists of Australia has also called on doctors to be aware of the outbreaks ...
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BREAKING NEWS: Experts condemn cancellation of flu vaccine program for ...

Professor Robert Booy of the National Centre for Immunisation Research at Westmead Hospital in Sydney has strongly condemned the decision to dismantle the state's program of free influenza vaccination for health workers. Queensland's Chief Health ...
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Video highlights effects of whooping cough on babies

All babies and children are eligible for free immunisations against whooping cough at six weeks, three months and five months old. Babies are only fully protected from whooping cough after their third vaccination at five months. Children also receive ...
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Additional Chief Secretary Fata approves health and other schemes

A high-level meeting chaired by Additional Chief Secretary Fata reviewed various steps for eradication of polio from Fata, early start of construction work on the site of Fata University. Various schemes in health, education and road sectors were also ...
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New health law broadens free preventive services for women; men fare less well

For example, under CDC recommendations that become effective in December, new health plans must cover the three-shot human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for young men at no charge. Previously recommended for young women ... for regular checkups and to ...
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Meningitis survivor tells need for vaccine

LAS CRUCES — The bacteria spread within a 14-hour period; her recovery took years. She was in the hospital for seven months. She lost all her fingers and the lower portions of both legs. She had to learn to walk again. A simple vaccination could have ...
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Doctor urges vaccination in pertussis 'clusters'

Though the situation in Texas is not as dire as in other states, there is cause for concern, especially among some areas of our community where vaccination rates are lower. Pertussis or whooping cough is often identified with that telltale ...
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KPRC Houston

Spencer-Van Etten Town Talk: Make sure returning students get pertussis ...

Pertussis, or whooping cough, has made a comeback in several New York districts, including the Spencer-Van Etten. Last year, my grandson was exposed twice, when kids in both his class and afterschool program came down with it. I checked with my doctor ...
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Musicians band together for woman stricken by meningitis

A Roseburg woman who lost most of both feet and four of her fingers to a sudden attack of meningitis in April returned home from the hospital in July to letters from collection agencies demanding she pay a half million dollars in medical bills. When ...
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'2284000 children at risk from polio virus'

The commissioner has warned that some 2,284,000 children up to five years of age living in the city could be at risk of spreading polio virus if a proper strategy was not adopted to ensure comprehensive anti-polio immunisation campaign in localities ...
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Polio campaigners refuse to work in high-risk Gadap without protection

KARACHI: Polio campaign communication officers tasked with monitoring high-risk areas are reportedly refusing to work because of a lack of protection, The Express Tribune has learnt. Unicef's COMnet officials are particularly concerned about the ...
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The Express Tribune